Envisioning the Arab Future. Modernization in US-Arab Relations, 1945-1967, Hardback/Nathan J. Citino

Based on research in Arabic and English, this book analyzes US-Arab conflicts over modernization. Challenging assumptions about a 'clash of civilizations', it shows how Americans and Arabs including nationalists, Islamists, and communists debated the Arab future within a shared set of Cold War-era ideas about progress.