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Cairo 1921

Ten Days That Made the Middle East

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Cairo 1921

Written by: C. Brad Faught
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
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The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East

Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The summit established the states of Iraq and Jordan as part of the Sherifian Solution and confirmed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine—the future state of Israel. No other conference had such an enduring impact on the region.

C. Brad Faught demonstrates how the conference, although dominated by the British with limited local participation, was an ambitious, if ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to move the Middle East into the world of modern nationalism. Faught reveals that many officials, including T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, were driven by the determination for state building in the area to succeed. Their prejudices, combined with their abilities, would profoundly alter the Middle East for decades to come.

©2022 C. Brad Faught (P)2022 Tantor Europe Great Britain Middle East Politics & Government
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Informative and enlightening, Cairo places the world changing conference within events past and future 👌

Highly insightful history 100 years after Cairo.

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