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July 18, 2017

How the Modernization of the Middle East Went Terribly Wrong

Unmoored from tradition, while embracing the worst of the West.

Reminiscing about life as a journalist in Tehran in the 1970s, Amir Taheri recalls the advice of the numerous foreign intellectuals who visited the once-cosmopolitan city, which could be summed in one word: “modernize!” The Middle East has by no means failed to modernize; however, Taheri argues, it has done so in all the wrong ways:

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