Middle East category: 7830 books
Critical Turning Points in the Middle East
1915 - 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
This book takes a novel look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh in the collective dignity deficits generated by poor governance paradigms and exacerbated by geopolitical competition for the region's natural resources.
by Chas W. Freeman Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman Jr. is one of America's most brilliant, experienced—and witty—diplomats. America's Misadventures starts with his previously unpublished reflection on Pres. George H. W. Bush's handling of the Iraq-Kuwait crisis of 1990-91. (He was U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia at...
Arabia Incognita
Dispatches from Yemen and the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Yemen is an intriguing, strategically located country that is the perennial "poor relation" of the wealthy oil monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula and has been plagued by deadly conflict since early 2015. In 2011, it saw a broad eruption of the mass protests associated with the "Arab...
by Seth Cantey
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This volume is designed to place in context the passionate controversies and emotional attachments of the two billion people who live, study, work, love, and die in the Middle East and South Asia. Understanding these regions means more than annually-updated details of the governments, politics, cultures,...
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: from Balfour Promise to Bush Declaration
The Complications and the Road for a Lasting Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
In the coming five to ten years, the highest number of key global security challenges is likely to be concentrated in the Middle East, or be related to it. And the traditional most significant challenge in the Middle East is the Arab-Israeli conflict and its core, the dispute between Israelis and...
Syria Calling
A real-life experience of six years of conflict, witnessed from Aleppo and Damascus, Iraqi Kurdistan and Rome, Egypt, Oman and Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Two and a half years after the publication of Qui Syria: undercover journalist returns to Damascus, Antonella Appiano (journalist and scholar of Arabic and Islam culture) once again reports on the situation in the Middle East, tracking the history of a conflict which becomes more and more serious...
by Dennis J. Deeb II
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
After the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Pakistan’s then President Pervez Musharraf declared: “The Palestinian front is affecting the entire Muslim world. All terrorists and militant activity in the world today has been initiated because of the Palestinian problem. This is because...
Fear and Faith in Paradise
Exploring Conflict and Religion in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
From life along the Tigris River in the 1970s to the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings, Phil Karber has witnessed decades of change throughout the Middle East. Fear and Faith in Paradise draws on his wealth of experience to sketch a timely and compelling portrait of the region throughout history. Going...
The Transnational Mosque
Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
*Kishwar Rizvi, drawing on the multifaceted history of the Middle East, offers a richly illustrated analysis of the role of transnational mosques in the construction of contemporary Muslim identity. As Rizvi explains, transnational mosques are structures built through the support of both government...
From Cairo to Baghdad
British Travellers in Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Until the 1880s, British travellers to Arabia were for the most part wealthy dilettantes who could fund their travels from private means. With the advent of an Imperial presence in the region, as the British seized power in Egypt, the very nature of travel to the Middle East changed. Suddenly, ordinary...
by Owen L. Sirrs
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Egyptian efforts to acquire long-range surface-to-surface missiles in the early 1960s carry important lessons for our time, when weapons of mass destruction and charges of politicizing intelligence are key issues.
This new study traces the history of the early Egyptian ballistic missile program,...
Beyond the Handshake
Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, 1991-1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Arabs and Israelis have battled one another in political and military arenas, seemingly continuously, for some fifty years. The 1991 Madrid Peace Conference sought to change this pattern, launching bilateral and multilateral tracks in the Arab-Israeli peace process. As a result, a broad group of Arab...
To Begin the World Over Again
Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Lawrence of Arabia is best remembered for the Oscar-winning film about his life. But there is a different T.E. Lawrence, a man who applied his unique experiences and extensive knowledge of the Arab world to a political vision for nation building in the Middle East that holds many lessons for today....
Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East
Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements, 1943-55
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Britain emerged from World War II dependent economically and militarily upon the US. Egypt was the hub of Britain's imperial interests in the Middle East, but her inability to maintain a large garrison there was clear to the indigenous peoples. These essays track the decline of the empire.