The definitive history of the Middle East, fully updated to include a full account of the Syrian Civil War.
Peter Mansfield was born in 1928 in India. In 1955 he joined the
British Foreign Office and went to Lebanon to study Arabic at the
Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies. From 1961 to 1967 he was the
Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times. He became one of
Britain's foremost experts on the region. Peter Mansfield died in
1996.
Nicolas Pelham is The Economist's Middle East correspondent. He
began working in Cairo as editor of the Middle East Times and since
then has spent 30 years studying, travelling and writing in the
region. He has worked for the BBC Arabic Service and Financial
Times and writes for The New York Review of Books. He is the author
of A New Muslim Order (2008) and Holy Lands (2016) which explores
the region's pluralist past. Taking occasional breaks from
journalism, he has worked as a Middle East analyst for the
International Crisis Group, the United Nations and the Royal
Institute of International Affairs. In 2017 he won the Gerald Loeb
Award for Distinguished Journalism.
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