Middle East category: 7830 books
Voices of the New Arab Public
Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2006
Al-Jazeera and other satellite television stations have transformed Arab politics over the last decade. By shattering state control over information and giving a platform to long-stifled voices, these new Arab media have challenged the status quo by encouraging open debate about Iraq, Palestine, Islamism,...
Applying Ibn Khaldūn
The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The writings of Ibn Khaldūn, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature. For this reason, Ibn Khaldūn has been widely regarded as the founder of sociology, or at least a precursor of modern sociology. While he was given this recognition,...
Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean
A Social History
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
In writings about Islam, women and modernity in the Middle East, family and religion are frequently invoked but rarely historicized. Based on a wide range of local sources spanning two centuries (1660–1860), Beshara B. Doumani argues that there is no such thing as the Muslim or Arab family type...
Sovereign Debt and International Financial Control
The Middle East and the Balkans, 1870–1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
This book revisits an important chapter of financial history in the Middle East and the Balkans from 1870 1914. During this period, capital flows in the form of sovereign debt increased rapidly throughout the region. The spiral of heavy government borrowing eventually culminated in defaults on foreign...
Technology, Tradition and Survival
Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
The contributors address the history, originality, variety and sophistication of traditional science, technology and material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia, their influence on the history of Europe and the West, and the threat posed by modern Western technologies.
International Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
This issue of Cairo Papers takes up the various dimensions of migration and refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean region over different periods in the last two centuries. It looks at both the migration of waves of Italians and Greeks to Egypt from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and...
by Carolyn Han
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
In 2004, Carolyn Han left her comfortable life and position as a lecturer in English at Hawaii Community College and went to live in one of the most remote and mysterious places in the Middle East—Yemen, known in the West primarily for providing a haven for terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda. The...
Inviting Muslims To Christ
Including Quotations and Commentary from the Bible and Quran
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The purpose of this book is to provide a clear presentation of the Plan of Salvation for both Christianity and Islam. The statements of faith that were the foundation of he early Christian Church are presented so the reader can understand the founding of the early Christian Church.
Gal in the Gulf
A Different View of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
With the media blasting out horror stories about the Middle East and the Muslim faith, this American teacher went to work in Kuwait with fears and doubts most people in the West have about that area of the world. From the smells of the food to the goofiness of her friends and the experiences of mingling...
The Great Arab Conquests
How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China
Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Whereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Africa and Spain within...
Fanack Water Files
Water Challenges and Solutions in Jordan, with a Special Report on the Red Sea–Dead Sea Project
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The Middle East faces a crisis of the most fundamental kind. Water is scarce. Resources have been depleted and environmental factors make solutions difficult to come by. The Fanack Water Files, presented by Fanack, provide in-depth, comprehensive, and balanced information on the state of water resources...
by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
The Iranian Constitutional Revolution was the twentieth century’s first such political movement in the Middle East. It represented a landmark in Iranian history because of the unlikely support it received from Shi‘ite clerics who historically viewed Western concepts with suspicion, some claiming...
Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia
Militancy, Politics and Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and important topic in today's international affairs - and especially pertinent in the regional politics of the Middle East and South Asia, where Pakistan has long been a flashpoint of Islamist politics and terrorism. In Islamism and Intelligence in South...
by David Hamshire
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
The mention of ‘Israel’ usually provokes a reaction of some sort. In today’s world, the reaction is often negative, with many regarding the nation of Israel as an obstacle to peace, and peace in the Middle East in particular. I believe that such reactions are promoted by biased reports coming...