Faith Misplaced The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001

by Makdisi, Ussama

• ISBN13: 9781586489618
• ISBN10: 1586489615
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-28
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

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 America's increasing interest in oil, and finally collapsed when America's pushed for the legitimization of the State of Israel. In this provocative new book, Lebanese-American historian Ussama Makdisi explores America's fractured relationship with the Arab world, and offers policy recommendations that can lead to its repair.

Author Biography

Ussama Makdisi is Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies and 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Reclaiming Bible Lands	p. 19
The Arab Discovery of America	p. 55
Benevolent America	p. 103
Betrayal	p. 147
Picking Up the Pieces	p. 205
Raising the Rag of Liberty	p. 259
Reaping the Whirlwind	p. 299
Epilogue: A New Beginning?	p. 353
Notes on Transliteration	p. 367
Acknowledgments	p. 369
Notes	p. 371
Bibliographic Essay	p. 399
Index	p. 411
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