Unity and Diversity in the Middle East

IT WAS said of a French writer who had attempted to evaluate and redefine the confused literary trends of his day that he had entered the Augean stable of French literature pour y ajouter. A similar criticism might well be leveled at the geographer who tries to define the terms Near and Middle East, especially when the issue, after having engaged the attention of several geographical societies for some time,I has recently been carried to the highest governmental level.2 Nevertheless, it is important that the question should be resolved. The region linking Europe, Asia, and Africa is increasingly a factor in world affairs, whether regarded from the political or the economic point of view; and to the interest of specialists must now be added the awakened attention of the general public in Britain, and to a smaller extent in America, many of whom now have a firsthand acquaintance with the region as the result of military service. NEAR OR MIDDLE

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