Middle East category: 7830 books
Israeli Air Force Operations in the 1956 Suez War
29 October-8 November 1956
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
By participating in 1956 Suez Crisis Israel exploited an opportunity to join forces with France and the United Kingdom in an attack against Egypt in order to accomplish diplomatic, military and political objectives: to open the Red Sea international shipping lane to ships sailing from and to Eilat;...
Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine
Religion and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Religion and religious nationalism have long played a central role in many ethnic and national conflicts, and the importance of religion to national identity means that territorial disputes can often focus on the contestation of holy places and sacred territory. Looking at the case of Israel and Palestine,...
The ISIS Crisis
What You Really Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
With ISIS on the rise, what do we need to know?
ISIS—a name that inspires fear, a group that is gaining momentum. Horrors unheard of are plaguing the Middle East, and ISIS may be responsible for the worst among them. And yet there is so much we don’t know about ISIS:
Where did ISIS...
Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age
Towards an Intellectual History of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war...
Khomeini
Life of the Ayatollah
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The Ayatollah Khomeini was the most radical Muslim leader of this age. In transforming himself from a traditional Muslim theologian into the charismatic Iranian ruler who took on the world, Khomeini launched an Islamic revival movement that, with the collapse of communism, quickly evolved for some...
The Islam/West Debate
Documents from a Global Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
In 2002, sixty prominent American intellectuals released an open letter defending the use of military force against al-Qa'ida. The letter sparked an impassioned international debate unlike any other, in which jihadists, journalists, liberal Muslims, and German pacifists engaged one another on the...
Communicating the Middle Ages
Essays in Honour of Sophia Menache
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This volume is a collection of nineteen original essays by leading specialists on the history, historiography and memory of the Crusades, the social and cultural aspects of life in the Latin East, as well as the military orders and inter-religious relations in the Middle Ages. Intended to appeal to...
Arab Patriotism
The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Arab Patriotism presents the essential backstory to the formation of the modern nation-state and mass nationalism in the Middle East. While standard histories claim that the roots of Arab nationalism emerged in opposition to the Ottoman milieu, Adam Mestyan points to the patriotic sentiment that grew...
by Harold M. Cubert
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This is a history of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a violent Marxist faction within the Palestinian national movement. Cubert explores the group's background and provides an analysis of its aims, methods, structures and the factors responsible for its decline.
New Directions in Islamic Thought
Exploring Reform and Muslim Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
How are Muslims to reconcile their beliefs with the imperatives and pressures of the modern world? How should they handle the tension between their roles as private citizens and their religious affiliations and identities? This groundbreaking volume shows in what ways prominent Muslim intellectuals...
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization (2006)
An Encyclopedia - Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East.
First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. This...
The Great Betrayal
How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
The twentieth century saw dramatic changes in the once Kurd-dominated Kirkuk region of Iraq. Despite having repeatedly relied on the Kurdish population of Iraq for military support, on three occasions the United States have abandoned their supposed allies in Kirkuk. The Great Betrayal provides a political...
The Kurdish Spring
A New Map of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Kurds are the largest stateless people in the world. An estimated thirty-two million Kurds live in "Kurdistan," which includes parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran today's "hot spots" in the Middle East. The Kurdish Spring explores the subjugation of Kurds by Arab, Ottoman, and...
The Golan Heights
Political History, Settlement and Geography since 1949
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Presenting the settlement landscape of the Golan before and after June 1967, The Golan Heights deals with the issue of the border between Israel and Syria, and with the Israeli settlement process in the area following the Six Day War.
The story of the Golan Heights and its position between...