Nicholas Kristof has an interesting column on why the Middle East stagnated economically after the 1200s while the western world boomed. Many Arabs have an alternative theory about the reason for the region’s backwardness: Western colonialism. But that seems equally specious and has the sequencing wrong. “For all its discontents, the Middle East’s colonial period [...]
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