The Great BetrayalHow the Middle East can achieve political change and social progress. The Middle East is in upheaval: a widening chasm between state and society, the failure of governing elites to address citizens' genuine grievances, and massive economic mismanagement, all made worse by repeated interventions by Western powers. Why has political change been so difficult to achieve? In The Great Betrayal, Fawaz Gerges argues that the convergence of political