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The Making of the Modern Middle East : A Personal History - Jeremy Bowen

The Making of the Modern Middle East

A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

Paperback | 25 June 2026

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Now updated with a new chapter on the 7 October attacks and more.

A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year
A Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year

'An illuminating and riveting read' - Jonathan Dimbleby
'Arresting . . . excellent, doom-freighted' - The Times

Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. In The Making of the Modern Middle East he offers a gripping and invaluable guide, showing how it came to be and what its future might hold.

In part based on his acclaimed podcast, 'Our Man in the Middle East', Bowen takes us on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line, and their leaders, whether brutal or benign. He explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control.

Clear throughout is Bowen's deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan's Turkey, Netanyahu's Israel and Palestine, whether Hamas-controlled Gaza or the West Bank. His long experience of covering events in the region make this an extraordinarily powerful account of one of the world's greatest problems.

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