Word: regionality
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...rather arbitrary appreciation for the study of Hezbollah, a Lebanese political organization that is often simply described as a terrorist group. In “Hezbollah: A Short History,” Norton, a Boston University professor who formerly served as a United Nations military observer in the region, draws upon his years of study to deliver a clear, concise, and accessible report on the history of Hezbollah and its activity and interaction with other groups in Lebanon. Short personal anecdotes from his time in Lebanon add both color and authority to the book. Norton’s portrait...
Despite its daunting scope, Oren’s book is both an easy and an enjoyable read. He breaks his narrative down into seven distinct parts and provides maps of the region, a clear timeline of major events, and two sections of photographs...
...Early America Encounters the Middle East” and “The Middle East and Antebellum America,” are possibly the most astounding. American relations with the Middle East, we learn, have not really changed since John Ledyard, the first American to explore the region, traveled to Egypt...
...America’s relations with the Middle East from the nation’s birth to the War on Terror. Oren weaves the history together with three overlapping threads, which he argues are the factors that have most influenced America’s relations with the tumultuous region: power, particularly militaristic and political; faith, by which he means Christian evangelism, especially its relationship to Zionism; and fantasy, the depiction of the Middle East as a mystical, faraway land in popular culture from “Lawrence of Arabia” to Disney’s “Aladdin...
...recommended that the United States go to war with the Barbary pirates, and Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who dispatched Marines to protect Americans living in Beirut, which was war-torn even at the turn of the 20th century. Bush’s support of American businesses in the region even calls to mind the value Andrew Jackson placed on Middle Eastern trade...