Spies in Arabia

Spies in Arabia

The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East

by Priya Satia

472 pages· 2008· ISBN 9780199715985
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The first cultural history of Britain's Middle Eastern empire, Spies in Arabia tells the story of an intelligence community groping through a fog of cultural notions, the violence of the Great War, and an interfering democracy towards a new style of "covert empire" centered on a brutal aerial surveillance regain.

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