Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal by Zachary Karabell ISBN 13: 9780375408830

Zachary Karabell was educated at Columbia, Oxford, where he received a degree in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, and Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1996. He has taught at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Dartmouth. He is the author of several books, including The Last Campaign : How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election , which won the Chicago Tribune Heartland prize. His essays and reviews have appeared in various publications, such as the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , Foreign Policy , and Newsweek . He lives in New York City.