Middle East category: 7830 books
So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico
Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico is one of the intriguing, untold stories in the history of both regions. In So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp presents the fascinating findings of her extensive fieldwork in Mexico as well as in Lebanon and Syria, which included comprehensive...
by Alev Scott
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
An exploration of the contemporary influence of the Ottoman Empire on the wider world, as the author uncovers the new Ottoman legacy across Europe and the Middle East.
The author’s odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey’s borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their...
by Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Samuel Thrope, Bernard Avishai
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
“[The Israeli Republic] suggests how the Iranian and Israeli leaders who feel such intense mutual hostility today actually mirror one another in certain ways, particularly in their foundational attitudes toward religious authority, political and economic populism, and the West. That a writer such...
Gulf Security and the U.S. Military
Regime Survival and the Politics of Basing
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
The U.S. military maintains a significant presence across the Arabian Peninsula but it must now confront a new and emerging dynamic as most Gulf Cooperation Council countries have begun to diversify their political, economic, and security partnerships with countries other than the United States—with...
The Moral Economy of the Madrasa
Islam and Education Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
The revival of madrasas in the 1980s coincided with the rise of political Islam and soon became associated with the "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West. This volume examines the rapid expansion of madrasas across Asia and the Middle East and analyses their role in society...
The Great Powers in the Middle East 1941-1947
The Road to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by John L. Esposito, Tamara Sonn, John O. Voll
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy. In Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring, John L. Esposito, John Voll, and Tamara Sonn examine the state of democracy in Muslim-majority societies today. Applying...
Guerrilla Leader
T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Reclaiming T. E. Lawrence from hype and legend, James J. Schneider offers a startling reexamination of this leader’s critical role in shaping the modern Middle East. Just how did this obscure British junior intelligence officer, unschooled in the art of war, become “Lawrence of Arabia” and inspire...
The Crescent Obscured
The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa from 1776 to 1815, Robert Allison traces the perceptions...
by Major Peter D. Buck USMC
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Operation Eagle Claw was tactically feasible, operationally vacant, and strategically risky.
This paper examines the failed hostage rescue mission conducted by the U.S. in Iran during April of 1980. The following text will recreate the rescue mission in its historical context while identifying factors...
Undeclared Wars with Israel
East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations - ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries - from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. This period...
Early Seljuq History
A New Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This book investigates the early history of the Seljuq Turks, founders of one of the most important empires of the mediaeval Islamic world, from their origins in the Eurasian steppe to their conquest of Iran, Iraq and Anatolia. The first work available in a western language on this important episode...
The Last Supper
The Plight of Christians in Arab Lands
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
"A central question that animates Wivel is why those in the West, who profess a belief in such universal values as freedom and equality, have not done more to defend the human rights of this severely beleaguered minority."—University Bookman"Revealing, shocking, and well-researched reading."—Jyllands-PostenIn...
Six-Day War 1967
Operation Focus and the 12 hours that changed the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
On one day in June, the balance of air power in the Middle East was turned upside down by perhaps the most ruthlessly effective air superiority campaign in history – Operation Moked, or Focus.
In 1967, the Israeli Air Force was outnumbered more than two to one by the jets of hostile Egypt,...