{"title":"David Hirst","description":"David Hirst was for many years the Middle East correspondent of the Guardian. His seminal book on the Arab-Israeli conflict, The Gun and the Olive Branch, has been in print for thirty years.","products":[{"product_id":"beware-of-small-states-lebanon-battleground-of-the-middle-east-paperback","title":"Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this magisterial history of Lebanon, from the end of Ottoman rule to the Hezbollah and Hamas wars of today, acclaimed and fiercely independent Middle East journalist and historian David Hirst charts the interplay between a uniquely complex country and the broader struggles of the modern Middle East. Lebanon is the battleground on which the region's greater states pursue their strategic, political, and ideological conflicts--conflicts that sometimes escalate into full-scale proxy wars. Hirst warns that only serious diplomatic action from the Obama administration can prevent the next such action from engulfing the entire region.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367377404127,"sku":"9781568586571","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RyxzvtaNFd9781568586571.webp?v=1789106159"},{"product_id":"the-gun-and-the-olive-branch-the-roots-of-violence-in-the-middle-east-paperback","title":"The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than a decade before Israel's New Historians revolutionized the study of Israeli history, English journalist David Hirst wrote The Gun and the Olive Branch, a classic, myth-breaking general history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hirst, former Middle East correspondent of the Guardian, traces the origins of the terrible conflict back to the 1880s to show how Arab violence, although often cruel and fanatical, is a response to the challenge of repeated aggression. The Gun and the Olive Branch is an absorbing, potentially controversial, history of the Middle Eastern conflict that is indispensable to anyone with an interest in world politics and by partisans of both sides. This classic and controversial account of the origins of the Middle East conflict returns to print updated with a lengthy introduction that reflects on the course of recent Middle Eastern history--especially the abortive Israeli-Palestinian peace process and 9\/11.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367384187103,"sku":"9781560254836","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TZH3iSauM_9781560254836.webp?v=1789106173"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/david-hirst.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}