Peter Sluglett

Bio:

Peter Sluglett is a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Utah.

Articles by this Author


Hourani, History of the Arab Peoples	*Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples* (Faber and Faber, 1991).** This is a rich and profoundly satisfying book, the high-water mark of Albert Hourani’s long and influential career as a writer and...	MER178
Iraq Since 1986: The Strengthening of Saddam	In June 1986, we wrote that the situation in which Iraq found itself “underlines the vital need for the establishment of democracy...however broadly this may be defined.” Four years later, this plea has become more urgent; the...	MER167
Khalil, Republic of Fear	*Samir al-Khalil, Republic of Fear: Saddam’s Iraq* (California Press, 1989).** This book, first published a year ago at a time when -- with a few honorable exceptions -- most criticism of Iraq and its...	MER167

Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (Faber and Faber, 1991).

This is a rich and profoundly satisfying book, the high-water mark of Albert Hourani’s long and influential career as a writer and...

MER178

Iraq Since 1986: The Strengthening of Saddam

In June 1986, we wrote that the situation in which Iraq found itself “underlines the vital need for the establishment of democracy...however broadly this may be defined.” Four years later, this plea has become more urgent; the...

MER167

Khalil, Republic of Fear

Samir al-Khalil, Republic of Fear: Saddam’s Iraq (California Press, 1989).

This book, first published a year ago at a time when -- with a few honorable exceptions -- most criticism of Iraq and its...

MER167