Recent Middle Eastern history may not suggest such a perfect ending, but I do believe the end result will be closer to the better and not the worst scenario.

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In an opening chapter on how the Middle East plays in American minds, he shows how moments in Middle Eastern history used to be reported in the National Geographic, a popular magazine that at least at one time was a window on the world for millions of middle-class Americans.

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One critic has been US Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, Denise Spellberg, who said the book was a disrespectful mis-representation of history.

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This intricate web of history places the Middle Eastern societies in a special tension with Europe that is not similarly present in the story of modern India, nor China.

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He has a background in American and British 20th century political history, as well as Middle Eastern affairs.

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