@dominik · read in 2016
What would history look like if we placed the Middle East at the center of it? How did the events of the centuries impact that region? This book does that, and does so brilliantly, resulting in a lovely, wonderful, endearing, immensely scoped tale. Follow the history of an entire region across the span of thousands of years. The threads of the narrative pull together so well as to have kept me turning the pages. A tremendous work of scholarship and an enlightened insight into a region that, to this day, continues to be a locus of history.