Modern Ortadoğu-Toplumsal ve Kültürel Bir Tarih

According to Ilan Pappe, understanding the Middle East requires understanding people and their emotions, motivations and cultures. Unlike most academics who have studied the Middle East to date, he does not focus on the economic or political position of the region. It deals with the events that deeply affected the Middle East, such as the colonial periods, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and the oil wars, with a human and culture-centered approach, and traces the segments and cultures that were left behind, excluded, and ignored. It meticulously examines the rural history, urban history, culture, art and women's struggles of the Middle East. While emphasizing the role of political Islam in the region, it avoids drawing definitive conclusions with the caution of a historian, and focuses on the possibility of looking at this historical geography "with understanding".

“[…] we must find a way to deal with emotions – both our own and those of the people we work with, because emotions are much more powerful than what we are currently observing and witnessing in the Middle East.

These feelings are as strong as the national feelings that Said emphasizes; We should consider them as part of our analysis of other people's misery, tragedy, or oppression. If you don't understand yourself you can never analyze properly; If the emotional element you are missing is the main factor behind an incredible human revolution, it would be a pity for the forests to turn into paper, leaving academics to try in vain to explain what happened in the Middle East.”

-Ilan Pappe

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 15 x 21.5

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish