Middle East category: 7830 books
Lebanon
The Politics of Frustration - The Failed Coup of 1961
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Lebanon examines the ideological, political and social underpinnings of the attempted coup against General Chihab's government in Lebanon in 1961. The author analyzes the role of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, the history of the army in Lebanon and it role in Lebanese politics and the impact...
Before Taliban
Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tragedy...
Reclaiming Iraq
The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
While some scholars would argue that there was no "Iraq" before King Faysal's coronation in 1921, Iraqi history spans fourteen centuries of tribal communities that endured continual occupation in their historic homeland, including Mongol invasions in the thirteenth century and subsequent Ottoman and...
Might Over Right
How the Zionists Took Over Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
"Might Over Right" provides a critical account of one of the most remarkable stories in the twenty century's history of international relations - the history of how in the relatively short time of 30 years, Zionist leaders, managed, with the help of Western supporters but mainly the British,...
Longing for the Lost Caliphate
A Transregional History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims around...
Islam and America
Building a Future without Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Islam and America argues that the current animosity between the U.S. and Muslim world should be understood through the often-overlooked history between the two. Tracing the genealogy of this conflicted relationship from the Pilgrims to the present, author Anouar Majid weaves personal stories with...
by Djene Rhys Bajalan, Oral Çalislar, Fuat Keyman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey’s Kurdish question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted issue, which gained regional and international significance largely in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people...
Palestine and the Gulf States
The Presence at the Table
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This final book from Rosemarie Said Zahlan, renowned scholar of Middle East Politics and History, explores the relationships between Palestine and the Gulf since the 1930s. These relationships have ebbed and flowed, crisscrossed barriers and events, and taken on different forms. They have pervaded...
A Century of Arab Politics
From the Arab Revolt to the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: the idea of a single Arab nation, the reality of multiple Arab states, and the competition between...
Between Terrorism and Civil War
The al-Aqsa Intifada
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume seeks to explore whether the current violence, its origins and dynamics can best be understood as a manifestation of civil war. In so doing, it considers how the use of violence by all parties has been conditioned and/or constrained by the domestic factors pertaining to their societies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most prominent issues in world politics today. Few other issues have dominated the world’s headlines and have attracted such attention from policy makers, the academic community, political analysts, and the world’s media.
The Routledge Handbook...
The Palestinians
From Peasants to Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
As the Israel-Palestine conflict rages on, it is more important now than ever to understand the history of the Palestinian people. Rosemary Sayigh's The Palestinians is a classic of radical history. Through extensive interviews with Palestinians in refugee camps, she provides a deeply-moving, grassroots...
The Accursed Tower
The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
**From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian stronghold fell to the Muslim army
The 1291 siege of Acre was the Alamo of the Christian Crusades -- the final bloody battle for the Holy Land. After a desperate six weeks, the...
Isma'ili Modern
Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan...