Israel category: 987 books
Sharaf Politics
Honor and Peacemaking in Israeli-Palestinian Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book examines the Arabic conflict resolution method known as "sulha." In this process, notable male elders mediate conflicts between and within Arab communities. A lengthy process of political jockeying culminates in a ceremony that peaks when "enemies" shake hands and publicly...
Urban Tourism and Urban Change
Cities in a Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines the implications of these changes for urban management and planning sense, for...
Surviving the Holocaust
A Life Course Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march; while the...
Jerusalem
City of the Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words
In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This edited volume explores the theoretical and practical implications of war and terror situations for citizenship in democratic states.
Citizenship is a key concept in Western political thought for defining the individual’s relations with society. The specific nature of these rights, duties...
Exiled in the Homeland
Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Offering a new perspective on Zionism, Exiled in the Homeland draws on memoirs, newspaper accounts, and archival material to examine closely the lives of the men and women who immigrated to Palestine in the early twentieth century. Rather than reducing these historic settlements to a single, unified...
We haten elkaar meer dan de Joden
Tweedracht in de Palestijnse maatschappij
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Dit boek gaat over verdeeldheid tussen Palestijnen onderling en niet over Israël en de bezetting van de Palestijnse gebieden. Het handelt over een vraag die doorgaans niet gesteld wordt: waarom zijn Palestijnen soms banger voor elkaar dan voor de Israëliërs?
De broederstrijd, een constante...
Crusading and Trading between West and East
Studies in Honour of David Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
For almost sixty years Professor David Jacoby devoted his research to the economic, social and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean and this new collection reflects his impact on the study of the interactions between the Italian city-states, Byzantium, the Latin East and the realm of Islam....
by Paul Sheets
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
The life of Jesus is a mystery that can be solved, In this book, I'll take you through the truths of His birth, adulthood, ministry, and death. You'll discover the truths of Matthew and Luke's birth and childhood stories. Who really wanted Jesus dead most of all? Truths of His existence and His life...
by John Lewis Burckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
During his residence in Syria, Burckhardt visited Palmyra, Damascus, Lebanon and made a series of other exploratory trips in the region. One of these trips, in what is now modern-day Jordan, resulted in his 'discovery' of the extensive and unique ruins of Petra which had been undiscovered...
Twilight Nationalism
Politics of Existence at Life's End
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians' is one of a golden age cut short, followed by dispossession and resistance. The experiences of Jaffa's Jewish...
Iran and Nuclear Weapons
Protracted Conflict and Proliferation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation.
Iran’s nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the forefront...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Ties together Palestinian experiences from 1948 to the present, revealing the Nakba to be part of an ongoing process of cultural erasure, and a crucial aspect of Palestinian identity.
An interdisciplinary collection bringing together leading Palestinian scholars.
Much of the current...
The Smile of the Human Bomb
New Perspectives on Suicide Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
In 2017, nearly six thousand people were killed in suicide attacks across the world.
In The Smile of the Human Bomb, Gideon Aran dissects the moral logic of the suicide terrorism that led to those deaths. The book is a firsthand examination of the bomb site at the moment of the explosion, during...