Brief Obituary of Bernard Lewis
(author of many books cited in these pages)
From the May 22, 2018 Daily dispatch from The Economist
Bernard Lewis, the West’s pre-eminent scholar on the Middle East, died at the weekend.
A Jewish Londoner, Mr Lewis enjoyed tea with the Shah of Iran and the last king of Afghanistan.
But he struggled with the present. After anti-American revolutions swept Iran and Afghanistan,
he grew reactionary, nostalgic and bitter, and became a darling of the neoconservatives.
His historical work will be remembered; his policy assessments probably not. |