"A New Republic book."

Islam in the modern world --Islam and the Orientalists -- Rule and religion in Iran -- Religion and nationalism in the Arab world -- Ibn Sa'ud on the Jews -- Arab unity then and now -- Lebanon : the perils of independence -- Great Britain and Palestine : the turning point -- Suez revisited -- United Nations : Hammarskjold and after -- Retreat from Algeria -- Great Britain and the United States in the Middle East -- How to (and how not to) seek peace in the Middle East -- Misreading the Middle East -- Colonel Lawrence and his biographers -- Surrender of Medina, January 1919 -- In the Anglo-Arab labyrinth : genesis of a history.