The “Middle East” has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few quest

In the first quarter of the twentieth century, the British Government, the banks, and leading individuals in London reached historic decisions that determined t

Examines how French colonial modernity invented the concept of the Maghreb, making it distinct from Africa and the Middle East.

Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these v

Offering a penetrating history of the formation of modern Iraq, Toby Dodge uncovers numerous troubling parallels between the policies of a declining British emp