The Making of the Modern Middle East - A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. Jeremy takes us on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line and their leaders, both brutal or benign, and he explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control.