Middle East category: 7830 books
Muhammad
Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary.
Many observers stereotype Islam and its scripture as inherently extreme or violent-a narrative that has overshadowed the truth of its roots. In this masterfully...
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD’S fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous,...
The Strong Horse
Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world, offering advice for America’s future success in the region.
Seeking the motivation behind the September 11 attacks, Smith moved to Cairo, where he discovered...
by Neville Teller
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
One Year in the History of Israel and Palestine, which starts on 1 January and ends on 31 December 2010, traces the progress of efforts to bring Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table, recording the hopes and the setbacks as they occurred. It traces both the depressing cynicism of many...
The Near East
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilization in the fourth millennium BCE until modern times. It provides an historical outline...
Dismantling the Ottoman Empire
Britain, America and the Armenian question
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Prior to World War I, American involvement in Armenian affairs was limited to missionary and educational interests. This was contrary to Britain, which had played a key role in the diplomatic arena since the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, when the Armenian question had become a subject of great power diplomacy....
by David W. Tschanz
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
Petra: A Brief History is an easy to read, popular history of Petra, “the rose red city, half as old as time” and the mysterious Nabataeans who carved into from the living rock.
The author, with a dramatic flair, explains how geography and geology made the eventual site of Petra the most...
Jordan in the Middle East, 1948-1988
The Making of Pivotal State
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A collection of articles assessing Jordan's position in the region in light of its quest for legitimacy as a state and as a Hashemite monarchy. Describes the country's role in the conflict with Israel and the balance of power between Palestinians and East Bankers.
Outsider in the Promised Land
An Iraqi Jew in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
In 1951, Israel was a young nation surrounded by hostile neighbors. Its tenuous grip on nationhood was made slipperier still by internal tensions among the various communities that had immigrated to the new Jewish state, particularly those between the politically and socially dominant Jewish leadership...
Statebuilding and Counterinsurgency in Oman
Political, Military and Diplomatic Relations at the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
In the depths of the Cold War and in the wake of Britain's announcement of its intention to withdraw 'East of Suez' by the end of 1971, Britain was faced with the stark reality of a Marxist rebellion in the Dhofar province of Oman. This rebellion, whose explicit aim was to 'liberate' the oil-rich...
Revival and Awakening
American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as Adam H. Becker shows in this book, Americans—through...
The Islamist Phoenix
The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
An updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix is now available as ISIS: The Terror Nation (978-1-60980-725-2)
From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq)...
Queen of the Desert
A Biography of the Female Lawrence of Arabia, Gertrude Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
T.E. Lawrence is often credited with bringing diplomacy to the Middle East; in the shadows of every great man you will often find an even greater woman. In Lawrence’s case, that woman’s name was Gertrude Bell.
In a time when women didn't go to school, Bell did; in a time when women didn't...
Sleeping with the Devil
How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance...