Traveling Through the Middle East for a Century

A must-read to understand the century-old chaos in the Middle East. Yu Minhong, Luo Zhenyu, Shi Zhan, Li Shuo, Zhang Mingyang, Liu Zichao, Liu Yi and others are highly recommended! Here, peace is an illusion and war is eternal. After the smoke of World War I cleared, the declining Ottoman Empire collapsed completely due to the carving up of power by European powers and the conflict of interests among Arab tribes of different factions. The ongoing turmoil in the modern Middle East is exactly the long aftershock caused by the collapse of that empire. A series of new Arab countries were established one after another. These emerging countries had immature political systems, shaky economic foundations, and frequent conflicts caused by religious issues. They have been disputed for hundreds of years. This book is like a travelogue of the Middle East that travels through time and space. It takes a century of Middle East history as its latitude and longitude, and cleverly interweaves the author's on-site observations with historical retrospection to create a delicate and vivid historical scroll. The book discusses major problems in the Middle East in chapters, digs deep into the root causes of contradictions and conflicts hidden in the depths of time, and presents readers with a neutral and objective panoramic view of the chaos in the Middle East. It is not only a historical work, but also a profound reflection on the emergence, continuation and end of the chaos in the Middle East, leading us to jointly explore the dawn of peace and hope in that ancient and mysterious land.