The Struggle for Arab Independence : Riad El-Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)

1. Grandee of the empire; 2. An Ottoman childhood; 3. Education in revolution; 4. In the shadow of the gallows; 5. Faysal's false dawn; 6. Fugitive from the French; 7. The great Syrian revolution; 8. A hero's return; 9. Man of the people; 10. Riad el-Solh, Zionism and the Hajj Amin al-Husayni; 11. Ben Gurion and the Arabs; 12. The making of a Lebanese patriot; 13. Competing identities: the battle for men's minds; 14. The politics of the street; 15. The changing fortunes of war; 16. Rashid 'Ali and 'Operation Exporter'; 17. Riad Bey and general spears; 18. The electoral challenge; 19. The compromise of the national pact; 20. The decisive battle; 21. Painful awakening; 22. Goodbye to the French; 23. Master of the local scene; 24. The unwanted war; 25. The challenge from the revolutionaries; 26. Murder in Amman.