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This is not one of those histories that reads like a novel, but it's a great record of the Arab Spring and also a guide to the Middle East in a way. Many people think it's either too complex to bother with or they paint the region as a Muslim monolith and summarily dismiss the people who live there. Filiu touches on a variety of considerations like class and colonialism that are far more important in understanding the unrest and cohesion than religion the Middle East.
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