The two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world
and United States has been fraught with tension and resentment.
What began in the nineteenth century as a favorable exchange of
cultural understanding and economic opportunity deteriorated with
Americas increasing interest in oil, and finally collapsed when
Americas pushed for the legitimization of the State of Israel. In
this provocative new book, Lebanese-American historian Ussama
Makdisi explores Americas fractured relationship with the Arab
world, and offers policy recommendations that can lead to its
repair.
關於作者:
Ussama Makdisi is Arab American Educational Foundation
Professor of History at Rice University. In April 2009 the Carnegie
Corporation named Makdisi a 2009 Carnegie Scholar for his
contributions to enriching the country’s discourse on Islam. His
previous book, Artillery of Heaven, won the 2009 John Hope Franklin
Prize.
目錄:
Introduction
1.Reclaiming Bible Lands
2.The Arab Discovery of America
3.Benevolent America
4,Betrayal
5.Picking Up the Pieces
6.Raising the Rag of Liberty
7.Reaping the Whirlwind
Epilogue: A New Beginning?
Note o n Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index