Betty S. Anderson. A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Betty Anderson (BA):
Betty S. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Middle East History at Boston University and the author of Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State (University of Texas Press, 2005) and The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education (University of Texas Press, 2011).