TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Bernard
TI  - The end of modern history in the Middle East
T2  - Herbert and Jane Dwight working group on Islamism and the international order
SN  - 9780817912949
U1  - 956.054 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Hoover Institution Press
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Middle East
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - BUSBOL
KW  - November2016
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Includes index; The historian's vision : the craft of Bernard Lewis / Fouad Ajami -- The end of modern history in the Middle East -- Propaganda in the Middle East -- Iran : Haman or Cyrus? -- The new anti-Semitism -- First religion, then race, then what?
N2  - The author examines in detail the issues most critical to the region's future. He describes oil as the current, most important export to the outside world from the Middle East but warns that technology will eventually make it obsolete, leaving those who depend solely on oil revenues with a bleak future. The three factors that could most help transform the Middle East, according to Lewis, are Turkey, Israel, and women. He also argues that there is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the other to provide the basis for an advance toward freedom in the true sense of that word and to achieve the social, cultural, and scientific changes necessary to bring the Middle East into line with the developed countries of both West and East
ER  -