Dr. Rashid Khalidi: "Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East"

Through a keen analysis of the last fifty years of U.S. foreign policy, Dr. Rashid Khalidi, director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and author of the new book, "Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East," suggests that the global conflicts now playing out explosively in the Middle East were significantly shaped by the Cold War era, and that any successful peace process must begin with a thorough understanding of this historical foundation. Dr. Khalidi is considered to be one of the foremost U.S. historians of the modern Middle East.