SERIES MADE SIMPLE

Egypt Historic Palestine, Israel, and the Emerging Palestinian Autonomous Areas Iran Iraq Persian Gulf States

Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia and Yemen Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
by Laura S. ETHEREDGE
978-1-61530-325-0.
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Gr 9 Up—Aside from new introductions and (possibly) new material in the closing bibliographical essays, these independent surveys rearrange content from Britannica Online Encyclopedia to present broad pictures of the Middle East's varied physical and cultural landscapes, cultural highlights, and history (through early 2010, so the chapters on modern history in Egypt and Yemen are out of date). Dry of prose, drab in appearance, and illustrated with spare, muddy black-and-white photos, these make marginal if slightly updated alternatives to equivalent volumes in the Children's Press's "Enchantment of the World" series, but they are dispensable where the contents are available online.
Reviewed by John Peters , Apr 01, 2011

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