The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands

“The
Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands presents five interesting memoirs of exceptional
characters and comes in a perfect time where academia and research has been
interested more often in the contemporary of Arab-Turkish relation and history.
The chosen memoirs represent the post-Ottoman history which was published
during the early stages of the Kemalist Republic of Turkey. Although the
personality of Jamal Pasha has been central to all pages of all memoirs, they
covered other issues, most importantly, the Ottoman military and rule in the
Arab lands, executions of the Arab nationalists, politics of governing the
Arabs, minorities, and military. … [It is] a good source for researchers of the
history of the Ottomans in the Arab peninsula, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine,
history of Turkish-Arab relation and studies of collective memories and
literature, and the personality of the owners of memories as well as Jamal and
Fahreddin Pashas.”

—Mohammed Alrmizan, Bosphorus
Review of Books