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Until the 1993 first edition of this book, one thing had been missing in Middle Eastern history - depiction of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites. Now updated and revised, the second edition has added six new portraits of individuals set in the contemporary period. It features twenty-four brief biographies drawn from throughout the Middle East - from Morocco to Afghanistan - in which the reader is provided with vantage points from...Vis mer