Background
He was born in Baghdad. His background was Iraqi Jewish and he grew up in the Jewish quarter, attending the Alliance Française primary school and then the Shammash High School.
(Except for Israel, the Middle East remains largely untouc...)
Except for Israel, the Middle East remains largely untouched by the democratic revolution that swept across Eastern Europe and the former USSR. This book aims to explain and analyze the reasons why despotism or religious fundamentalism continue to control the Middle Eastern countries.
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Here returned to print, at a timely moment in history, is Elie Kedourie's classic study of the Middle East in modern times. In analyzing British failures in the region during the zenith of their power and influence, Mr. Kedourie attributes much of Britain's faulty and disastrous handling of Middle East problems to what he calls "the Chatham House version." It was a view of Middle Eastern history and politics propounded and propagated in the various publications of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (known popularly as Chatham House), written or edited by Arnold Toynbee. The episodes that Mr. Kedourie investigates show "successive and cumulative manifestations of illusion, misjudgment, maladroitness, and failure." Together they point up hard lessons for the Bush administration or any outside power that would intervene in Middle Eastern affairs. "No better guide...can be found to the pitfalls awaiting those who seek to control the Middle East to their own advantage."―Asian Affairs "These twelve studies in the modern history of the Middle East form the most learned book, the most demanding therefore of rethinking, that has come out on the Middle East for many years, and anyone who in the future writes on any Middle Eastern subject, from any point of view, without consulting it, will do so at his or her grave peril."―London Telegraph
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(From the dust jacket: "The Arab world has gained new and ...)
From the dust jacket: "The Arab world has gained new and critical prominence in world affairs. The author maintains that to understand Arab politics one must first understand Islam, the religion of the overwhelming majority of Arabs and unquestionably the single greatest influence on Arab culture. By viewing current events in the context of Islam, Kedourie is able to elucidate their causes historically and anticipate their likely effects."
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historian university professor
He was born in Baghdad. His background was Iraqi Jewish and he grew up in the Jewish quarter, attending the Alliance Française primary school and then the Shammash High School.
London School of Economics and Saint Antony"s College, Oxford.
He wrote from a conservative perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field He was at the London School of Economics (London School of Economics) from 1953 to 1990, becoming Professor of Politics. He took an undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics. Kedourie"s doctoral thesis (later England and the Middle East) was critical inter alia of Britain"s inter-war role in Iraq.
lieutenant was refused the degree of Doctorate. Philosophy. of the University of Oxford, but was published in 1956.
He refused to make changes requested by one of the examiners, Sir Hamilton Gibb, and so did not proceed to take the degree. Michael Oakeshott brought Kedourie back to the London School of Economics in 1953.
He claimed they had turned the Middle East into "a wilderness of tigers". Kedourie also documented and criticised what he saw as the British Empire"s debilitation through over-indulgence in self-criticism.
In 1970 he attacked another British celebrity, Arnold J. Toynbee, in an essay, The Chatham House Version, holding him partly responsible for British imperial abdication of responsibility for the state of the Middle East.
(Except for Israel, the Middle East remains largely untouc...)
(Here returned to print, at a timely moment in history, is...)
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lieutenant castigated British policy makers for their encouragement of Arab nationalism, and contained a very negative view of Technology East. Lawrence. His 1960 book Nationalism provoked replies, in Thought and Change (1964) and Nations and Nationalism (1983), by his London School of Economics colleague Ernest Gellner, contesting Kedourie"s theories on the potential eliminability of nationalist thought. Kedourie was critical of Marxist interpretations of history and of nationalism, which he described as "anti-individualist, despotic, racist, and violent".
Married Sylvia G. Haim in 1950.