franksbooks reviewed The Arabs by Eugene L. Rogan
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3 stars
I admire Rogan for the effort, but compressing Arab history into a 500pp tome meant much of the content felt more like a textbook for high school history than a full history of these peoples. Especially once he got lost into focusing on the disaster of Palestine since the British got their hands on it in 1920. For a history of the arabs, far too much of it – especially In later chapters – seemed through the lens of the American, French, British participants –and before that the Turks – than from the Arabs themselves. More on the Saudis, the Moroccans and Berbers would’ve been welcomed too.
