books.google.ca - This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the Iranian Revolution and the Gulf War. After introducing the reader to the region's history from the origins of Islam in...http://books.google.ca/books/about/A_history_of_the_modern_Middle_East.html?id=N2CYKgj9yegC&q=Kurdish&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA history of the modern Middle East