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Source: NYT

6-15-17

David Fromkin, Professor and Author on Mideast, Dies at 84

His definitive book on the Middle East warned the West against nation-building by partitioning antagonistic religious groups behind arbitrary boundaries.

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David Fromkin, Professor and Author on Mideast, Dies at 84