The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism.(Book review)

From: Middle East Policy | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism, by Michael Provence. University of Texas, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 209 pages, including notes and index. $21.95, paperback.

The comparison is nowhere made explicitly, but the subtext for most readers of Michael Provence's The Great Syrian Revolt will inevitably be the current situation in Iraq--even if it was not the author's intention. The irony is that Provence poses the 1925 revolt against French Mandate rule in Syria as the watershed event in the emergence of Arab nationalism. In Iraq, where Baathism ...

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