Title: Disappointing
Product review: Unfortunately, only the last 10 pages of this book actually try to answer the question, "What went wrong?" The first 150 pages is a scattered history of Western influence in the Middle East, which jumps around between the 15th and 18th centuries, and doesn't deal at all with the last century, until the last chapter. This book will inform you on Middle Eastern culture, but spends more time talking about subjects such as Western influence on Middle Eastern architecture than on what has gone wrong. If you are an average person like me who is hoping to learn more about why the Arab world is the way it is today in order to better understand the current problems in that region, this book will not do much for you.
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