Middle East category: 7830 books
No to Compulsory Veil
No to Compulsory Religion, No to Compulsory Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This is a selection of six speeches by Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran from 2015 to 2017 in various conferences on the topic of Islam, compulsory veil, compulsory religion and compulsory government and why anything that is forced under any pretexts...
by Malcolm C. Peck
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
The A to Z of the Gulf Arab States comes at a time when the world's attention is riveted on the Middle East. The small states covered in this volume—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—possess about 20 percent of the world's total oil reserves. Beyond the strategic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
The Iraq War and Democratic Politics contains the work of leading scholars concerned with the political implications of the Iraq War and its relationship to and significance for democracy. The book shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global...
The Turk in America
The Creation of an Enduring Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Utah Series in Middle East Studies
In The Turk in America, historian Justin McCarthy seeks to explain the historical basis for American prejudice towards Turks in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume focuses on fraudulent characterizations of Turks, mostly stemming from...
Spillover from the Conflict in Syria
An Assessment of the Factors that Aid and Impede the Spread of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Aid flowing into Syria is intended to determine the outcome of the conflict between rebel factions and Damascus. Instead, it could perpetuate the civil war and ignite larger regional hostilities that could reshape the political geography of the Middle East. This report examines the main factors likely...
by Adeed Dawisha
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
An eye-opening survey of the recent Arab revolutions and their political consequences, comparing them to those of a previous generation.
When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, in December 2010, sparking a wave of popular uprisings that would topple dictatorial regimes...
The Worst-Kept Secret
Israel's Bargain with the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Israel has made a unique contribution to the nuclear age. It has created a special "bargain" with the bomb. Israel is the only nuclear-armed state that does not acknowledge its possession of the bomb, even though its existence is a common knowledge throughout the world. It only says that...
The Bomb in the Basement
How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
THE BOMB IN THE BASEMENT tells the fascinating story of how Israel became the Middle East's only nuclear power and -- unlike Iraq and Iran -- succeeded in keeping its atomic program secret.
Veteran Israeli journalist Michael Karpin explains how Israel, by far the smallest of the nuclear powers,...
Essential Israel
Essays for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Most Americans are ill-prepared to engage thoughtfully in the increasingly serious debate about Israel, its place in the Middle East, and its relations with the United States. Essential Israel examines a wide variety of complex issues and current concerns in historical and contemporary contexts to...
Ethnic Politics in Israel
The Margins and the Ashkenazi Centre
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book offers an analysis on contemporary Israeli democracy, examining in particular society and politics from the perspectives of the different ethnic groups outside of the Ashkenazi mainstream.
The book explores the political expressions of the secondary groups in Israel (Mizrahim, Religious,...
by Uzo Marvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Like other areas of the Middle East, Lebanon has a heritage almost as old as the earliest evidence of mankind. Its geographic position as a crossroads linking the Mediterranean Basin with the great Asian hinterland has conferred on it a cosmopolitan character and a multicultural legacy.At different...
Dreams Deferred
A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Dreams Deferred arrives as debates about the future of the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensify under the extraordinary pressure of a region in chaos. The book empowers readers to be informed participants in conversations and debates about developments that increasingly touch...
The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion
Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
During the postwar period of 1948–56, over 400,000 Jews from the Middle East and Asia immigrated to the newly established state of Israel. By the end of the 1950s, Mizrahim, also known as Oriental Jewry, represented the ethnic majority of the Israeli Jewish population. Despite their large numbers,...
by Nick Reynold
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This book provides an in-depth survey of Britain’s Mandate in Palestine, an issue crucial to understanding the continuing atmosphere of mistrust and violence in the region that continues to the present.
At the conclusion of the First World War (1914–18), the League of Nations awarded a...