Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University and was the author of The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; The Emergence of Modern Turkey; The Arabs in History; and What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response; among other books. Lewis was internationally recognized as one of our era’s greatest historians of the Middle East. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages, including Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Indonesian. Bernard Lewis died on 19 May 2018 at the age of 101, in New Jersey. He is buried in Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv.

Books

Notes On A Century by Bernard Lewis

Notes On A Century by Bernard Lewis

Notes on a Century | Reflections of a Middle East Historian by Bernard Lewis and Buntzie Ellis Churchill tell Lewis' life as a preeminent historian in the Middle East and around the world. In this witty memoir he reflects on the events that have transformed the region since World War II, up through the Arab Spring. Like America’s other great historian-statesmen Arthur Schlesinger and Henry Kissinger, Lewis is a figure of towering intellect and a world-class raconteur, which makes Notes on a Century essential reading for anyone who cares about the fate of the Middle East.
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