Created at the end of the XIX century from a Eurocentric perspective, the Middle East is a term that today serves to denominate a wide territory that extends from Morocco to Iran. A strategic region because of the presence of oil, convulsed by multiple factors of crisis whose volume has covered the political history since the expedition of Napoleon to Egypt and the encounter with modernity, the reform of the Ottoman Empire and the fall of the caliphates, The process of decolonization, the 1967 Sinai War,
The Iranian revolution, the presence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Palestinian Intifada, the end of Saddam Hussein and the current US conflict in Iraq or the recent revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya ...
These situations of crisis are as common an element as are the language, the cultural tradition or, despite the presence of a Christian minority, Islam, and it is these crises that this book runs following its evolutions in its constant dialectic with the West : From the movement of renewal of the XIX, to the reformism of the Muslim Brothers, from the confrontation of the ideology
Nationalist and socialism to the escalation of radical organizations. An approach to better understand what we have often understood as others.