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The Making the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
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The Making the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
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Loot Price R581
Discovery Miles 5 810
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In 1914 the Middle East was still dominated, as it had been for
some four centuries, by the Ottoman Empire; by 1923, its political
shape had changed beyond recognition as the result of the insistent
claims of Arab and Turkish nationalism and of Zionism. This book
examines that historic transformation, taking as its focus the work
of three leaders. The Hashemite Emir Feisal hoped to head an Arab
kingdom in Syria but was thwarted by the French. The Turkish war
hero Mustafa Kemal defied the imperial ambitions of the European
powers, inspiring a new Turkish nationalism and founding a secular
republic on the ruins of a defeated empire. The Russian-born
scientist Chaim Weizmann seized the chance to secure the Balfour
Declaration in favour of Zionism from the British in 1917, and then
successfully argued for a British mandate for Palestine which would
carry this out.
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