Jeremy Bowen is the BBC's Middle East Editor. He has reported from more than eighty countries, covering more than twenty wars. They include all those in the Middle East since 1990, as well as those in Afghanistan, Chechnya, El Salvador, Somalia, Rwanda, former Yugoslavia and Ukraine. His books include Six Days, War Stories, The Arab Uprisings and The Making of the Modern Middle East. He lives in London.
Written with modesty, grace and compassion, his account of 30 years
working in the Middle East for the BBC combines his own personal
experience with and a rare understanding of what makes this
tortured region so dangerously combustible . . . The result is an
illuminating and riveting read.
*Jonathan Dimbleby, broadcaster, author and historian*
Arresting . . . excellent, doom-freighted
*The Times*
Bears witness to how lofty dreams of the post-Cold War period
crashed and burned ... with deep empathy and understanding of the
roots of the conflict.
*The New Statesman*
[A] compelling blend of sweeping history and vivid memoir . . .
Bowen paints in the historical background masterfully and manages
to convey the pressure, euphoria and horror of war reporting as
well.
*Mail on Sunday*
A gripping and compelling account that swings between gut-wrenching
eyewitness stories and dispassionate analysis, laying bare the
hopes and horrors of the Middle East in the twenty-first century. A
remarkable book.
*Professor Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs: A History*
This book is a very personal and erudite history of a troubled
region where enemies of impartiality abound, though some don’t even
live there. I highly recommend this fascinating book which is also
a testament to a better era in journalism.
*Michael Burleigh, author of The Best of Times, The Worst of
Times: A History of Now*
This is a wise, compelling, fast-paced book - essential reading if
you wish to make sense of the forces that have convulsed the Middle
East, as well as unsettling all our lives, since the end of the
Cold War.
*Jason Cowley, author of Who Are We Now? and Editor in Chief
of The New Statesman*
Few people are as well placed to authoritatively depict the making
of the modern Middle East than Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s long-serving
correspondent in the region . . . excellent
*The New European*
Jeremy Bowen is a master of succinct writing for television and in
print, and his skill is showcased to brilliant effect in this
distillation of decades of experience reporting from the Middle
East. It’s a terrific book, pithy and pacy, equally at home telling
stories of ordinary people as in encounters with princes and
presidents.
*Matthew Teller, journalist and author of Nine Quarters of
Jerusalem*
Jeremy Bowen is uniquely qualified to analyse and explain the
region’s complex political and religious landscape. His book should
be essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of
this fascinating, but deeply troubled, part of the world.
*Con Coughlin, author of Saddam: The Secret Life and
Khomeini's Ghost*
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