James Barr

James Barr is the author of Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East.

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A mosque, in Damascus, in the 1930s. (STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)
A mosque, in Damascus, in the 1930s. (STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)

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