Middle East category: 7830 books
After Jihad
America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A lucid and compelling case for a new American stance toward the Islamic world.
What comes after jihad? Outside the headlines, believing Muslims are increasingly calling for democratic politics in their undemocratic countries. But can Islam and democracy successfully be combined? Surveying...
The People Reloaded
The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
A definitive collection of essays and documents on the movement behind Iran's mass protests
Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series of mass protests over the official results of a presidential...
Chaos and Counterrevolution
After the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In Chaos and Counterrevolution, international law scholar Richard Falk explores the wave of popular protests that swept North Africa and the Middle East in 2011-and the rapid demise (or reversal) the protest movement suffered in most countries, soon thereafter. The protests of 2011 inspired a new...
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in...
Under Siege
PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut. Utilizing unconventional sources and interviews with key officials and diplomats, Khalidi paints a detailed portrait of the siege and ensuing massacres,...
City of Widows
An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a system
within...
The Missing Martyrs
Why Are There So Few Muslim Terrorists?
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? These questions may seem counterintuitive, in light of the death and...
Defending the City of God
A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Jerusalem sits at the crossroads of three continents and has been continuously invaded for millennia. Yet, in the middle of one of the region's most violent eras, the Crusades, an amazing multicultural world was forming. Templar knights, Muslim peasants, Turkish caliphs, Jewish merchants, and the...
Ariel Sharon
An Intimate Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In 1954 reporter Uri Dan met a young military commander named Ariel Sharon and followed him closely for more than half a century. Dan became Sharon's trusted advisor and a witness to the defining moments of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--from secret meetings with heads of state to open warfare...
by Nikolas Jaspert
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This German-to-English translation of a highly successful book is a clear, approachable, student-friendly introduction to the history of the Crusades.
With a long chronological span, from the eleventh to the late fifteenth century, and with a wide geographical coverage of the whole of Europe...
Turkey
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: the only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. In this concise introduction, Andrew...
by Samir Kassir
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In the years before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir became one of Lebanon’s foremost public intellectuals, a fearless critic of tyranny and an inspiring advocate of democracy. In Being Arab, his last book, he calls on the peoples of the Middle East to reject both Western double standards...
by Carol Hakim
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
In this fascinating study, Carol Hakim presents a new and original narrative on the origins of the Lebanese national idea. Hakim’s study reconsiders conventional accounts that locate the origins of Lebanese nationalism in a distant legendary past and then trace its evolution in a linear and gradual...
Official Stories
Politics and National Narratives in Egypt and Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Until the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the resilience of authoritarian regimes seemed a fundamental feature of regional politics. While economic, political, and internal security policies are most often considered in discussions of regime maintenance, Laurie Brand introduces...