This much needed new edition provides a complete and essential guide to this fast developing
ever changing and often tense region. This book fully updated for 2024 examines the origins
and development of the events which have dominated the headlines for the last seven decades.
Covering everything from religion and politics in the aftermath of the Second World War to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict terrorism war in Iraq and Syria and the extraordinary economic
growth of the Gulf states it will change the way you think about the region and provide
balance and clarity.
