"TheOttoman Twilight in the Arab Lands presents five interesting memoirs of exceptionalcharacters and comes in a perfect time where academia and research has beeninterested more often in the contemporary of Arab-Turkish relation and history.The chosen memoirs represent the post-Ottoman history which was publishedduring the early stages of the Kemalist Republic of Turkey. Although thepersonality of Jamal Pasha has been central to all pages of all memoirs, theycovered other issues, most importantly, the Ottoman military and rule in theArab lands, executions of the Arab nationalists, politics of governing theArabs, minorities, and military. [It is] a good source for researchers of thehistory of the Ottomans in the Arab peninsula, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine,history of Turkish-Arab relation and studies of collective memories andliterature, and the personality of the owners of memories as well as Jamal andFahreddin Pashas." --Mohammed Alrmizan, BosphorusReview of Books.