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Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East
Nicolas Pelham
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Description for Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East
Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HRAF; HRAM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127. .
The news from the Middle East these days is bad. Whatever hopes people may have for the region are being dashed over and over, in country after country. Nicolas Pelham, a veteran correspondent for The Economist, has seen much of the tragedy first hand, but in Holy Lands he presents a strikingly original and startlingly optimistic argument. The Middle East was notably more tolerant than Western Europe during the nineteenth century, because the Ottoman Empire permitted a high degree of religious pluralism and self-determination within its vast borders. European powers broke up the empire and tried to turn it ... Read more
The news from the Middle East these days is bad. Whatever hopes people may have for the region are being dashed over and over, in country after country. Nicolas Pelham, a veteran correspondent for The Economist, has seen much of the tragedy first hand, but in Holy Lands he presents a strikingly original and startlingly optimistic argument. The Middle East was notably more tolerant than Western Europe during the nineteenth century, because the Ottoman Empire permitted a high degree of religious pluralism and self-determination within its vast borders. European powers broke up the empire and tried to turn it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia Global Reports
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
NY, United States
ISBN
9780990976349
SKU
V9780990976349
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About Nicolas Pelham
Nicolas Pelham has written about the Middle East since 1992. He began as the editor of Middle East Times from Cairo before joining the BBC Arabic Service. He covered the Algerian civil war and the caprice of Colonel Qaddafi as the BBC's correspondent in Rabat. In 2002 he joined the Financial Times reporting on the downfall of first Saddam Hussein ... Read more
Reviews for Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East
It is rare to come across a book on the region that charts a positive path for the future; rarer still to find one that advocates religious leadership and pragmatic communalism as the means for reaching peace...[Pelham] makes a powerful case that a regional alliance of overlapping millets, not connected with territorial boundaries, offers a better vision for restoring stability ... Read more