Title: Innaccurate Information Mixed with Bits of Truth
Product review: 100 Myths about the Middle East by Fred Halliday is a complete disappointment. It is clear early on that the information in this book is not accurate and that the author has bias. The distortions of the truth are so pervasive throughout that it would take a book to refute the garbage in Halliday's book.Much of what is written is filled with bits of truth but mostly inaccurate information that is wordsmithed into 30 second sound bites of disinformation. It seems that Halliday has not ventured out of his classroom much and is stuck in the theoretical world of the London School of Economics. His understanding of Islam and the Muslim culture is limited. His responses to many of the myths are so short that there is no way complete information can be provided. Hence the sound bites that have some truth to at least attempt a defense of accurate information. Mostly, this is not the case.Skip this book.
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