The Middle East of today emerged from decisions made by the allies during and after the first World War. This extraordinarily ambitious, vividly written account

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Uri Savir has an ambitious, indispensable goal: to bring peacemaking into the 21st century. “Little in today's world,” writes Savir, “is more progressive