Middle East

Native Instruments has announced the release of Discovery Series: Middle East, a new addition to the line of Kontakt instruments that explores global musical cultures. This instrument includes an extensive library of authentic instruments and patterns drawn from rich Arabic, Turkish, and Persian music traditions.

It is widely believed that the political problems of the Middle East date back to the era of World War I, when European colonial powers unilaterally imposed artificial borders on the post-Ottoman world in postwar agreements. This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the region. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the Great War into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among local and international actors.