About the Author

Efraim Karsh is professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University and professor emeritus of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. A former director of the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia think tank, he is editor of the Middle East Quarterly and Israel Affairs, and is writing A History of the Jewish People, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2018

Reviews

[F]ast-paced . . . Mr. Karsh's account deserves credit for granting Middle Easterners their own agency . . . the author's perspective is refreshing. --The Wall Street Journal "[A] compact view of the traditionalist perspective on Middle Eastern geopolitics up to today." --Library Journal