A Vision of the Middle East : An Intellectual Biography of Albert Hourani

This text traces Hourani's interaction with the Middle East from his search as a young student born in Manchester for his Middle East identity to his attempt as a young British official in the Arab world to explain the Palestinian dilemma to the British and American governments. It describes Hourani's disillusionment with the political work and his move to Oxford to become one of the world's foremost interpreters of modern Arab history, a personal and intellectual passage of enormous importance.