Keith David Watenpaugh Livres

The book explores the emergence of a liberal middle class in the Arab Middle East during the early twentieth century, highlighting their roles as professionals, journalists, and businessmen. It examines how this group contributed to the development of civil society, new political frameworks, and intellectual movements while engaging with colonialism. Through this lens, the author connects the evolution of modernity in the region to the social and political dynamics shaped by these emerging middle-class figures.

A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming.

Employing a wide range of source materials literary and artistic responses to violence, memoirs, and first-person accounts from victims, perpetrators, relief workers, and diplomats, the author argues that the international answer to the inhumanity of World War I in the Middle East laid the foundation for modern humanitarianism and more.