📘 Reading books like “Middle East: Evolution. 2010-2025” can be a truly delightful experience. It’s akin to the pleasure of discovering a stack of yellowed, 30-year-old newspapers in the attic of a summer house on a quiet evening. As you leaf through them, you find yourself captivated by stories about the future and about something that happened long ago and is almost forgotten.

The Valdai Club Middle East Conference has convened for the fourteenth time, and with each gathering, a report has been prepared by the Club’s experts. These reports, now compiled into a single volume, offer a remarkable chronicle of the Middle East’s evolution over the years.

What stands out is the exceptional quality of these analyses. The insights presented have proven remarkably accurate, both in hindsight and in their relevance to the present day. The depth of expertise displayed in these reports is truly commendable.

But the most fascinating thing about reading the reports is not the incredible ferocity of the conflict that has been revealed, but the striking ability of evil to find new loopholes so that the flames of war and hatred never subside, but flare up in new places and with new force. The ingenuity of this evil is simply astounding, and reading the reports is instructive for anyone interested in the twists and turns of history in the Middle East, a region that is known to be incredibly beautiful and at the same time frighteningly dangerous.

— Andrey Bystritskiy,
Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

📘 Middle East: Evolution. 2010–2025. Valdai Discussion Club’s Collection of Reports

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