Anthony Sattin

The last five hundred years

In the aftermath of the destruction of New York’s World Trade Center, an elderly Arab from the Gulf told me that he thought it was the work of American agents.

  • The Arabs: A History

    Eugene Rogan

    Allen Lane, pp. 553

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