Recommendation: Lawrence Wright's books on the middle east

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Lawrence Wright has written three very compelling books, which paint a clear picture about the things that lead to the modern situation of middle east relations.

Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David

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A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day.

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

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A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.

The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

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Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS.

 

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Good interview about some of the information in Lawrence's books