"An angry, sorrowing book... Barry Rubin’s indefatigability in completing it while facing what he knew to be his final illness (the respected historian and Middle East analyst died of cancer in early February of this year) indicates to some extent the measure of the thinker who has gone." "A riveting lament," writes Janice Fiamenga, from her recent review. "Passages of incredulity punctuate the otherwise controlled, effectively developed arguments the author presents about the … [Read more...]
Interview with Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, re Nazis, Islamists and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By May 18, 2021
Writer and historian Marshall Poe recently featured Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, co-author, with the late Prof. Barry Rubin, of the book Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, on his weekly podcast highlighting historians with newly issued books. Poe writes, "This book tells a remarkable and–to me at least–little known but very important story. In Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Yale UP, 2014), Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz trace … [Read more...]
