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Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age
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The Muslim World
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October 1, 2000
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Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age.
By R. Stephen Humphreys
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999
Between Memory and Desire is a noteworthy volume and is essential reading not only for academic students, but for those whose curiosity moves beyond the evening news broadcast. Humphreys first explores the stubborn problems of "power and the distribution of resources" that continually plague Middle East politics. These include population growth and economic inertia; the memory of imperialism; the history of Pan-Arabism; the formation of foreign policy; and, military dictatorship. The reader is then led to the deeper issue of the power spectrum in the Middle ...