Middle East category: 7830 books
Preventing Palestine
A Political History from Camp David to Oslo
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
On the fortieth anniversary of the Camp David Accords, a groundbreaking new history that shows how Egyptian-Israeli peace ensured lasting Palestinian statelessness
For seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace treaty with Egypt that is widely viewed...
Chaos in Yemen
Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Chaos in Yemen challenges recent interpretations of Yemen’s complex social, political and economic transformations since unification in 1990. By offering a new perspective to the violence afflicting the larger region, it explains why the ‘Abdullah ‘Ali Salih regime has become the principal beneficiary...
Islam
What You Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
What do you know about the Islamic religion? This book provides a non-technical overview of the religion. It also provides some insights into the tensions and conflicts between Islam and the Judo-Christian religion. Who was Muhammad? Who is Allah? Is Islam a religion of peace? Does Jihad...
by Gad G. Gilbar
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This study of fundamental aspects of the oil decade examines the influence of oil production, export and revenues on domestic, regional and international relations. It highlights the expansion of higher education in the Arab world, and the increase in demand for industrial and consumer goods.
Assad or We Burn the Country
How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster.
In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army...
by Thomas A. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Christians in fifteenth-century Iraq and al-Jazīra were socially and culturally home in the Middle East, practicing their distinctive religion despite political instability. This insightful book challenges the normative Eurocentrism of scholarship on Christianity and the Islamic exceptionalism of...
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This carefully edited historical collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia, ancient...
Conspiracy Theories in the Arab World
Sources and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Conspiracy theories, while not unique to the Middle East, are a salient feature of the political discourses of the region. Strongly reflecting and impacting on state-society relations and indigenous impressions of the world beyond the region, they affect how political behaviour within and among the...
The Great Empires of the Ancient East
Egypt, Phoenicia, The Kings of Israel and Judah, Babylon, Parthia, Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Persia, Sasanian Empire & The History of Herodotus
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
The Ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Iran Asia Minor and Armenian Highlands, the Levant, Cyprus and the Arabian Peninsula. This book covers the history of the entire region through...
Orient Express
A Travel Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Before John Dos Passos enjoys fame as a chronicler and critic of American society, he wins recognition for command of aesthetics. Orient Express, a memoir of the author’s travels through Eastern Europe, the Near East, and the Middle East, focuses on sights, sounds, and smells rather than plot or...
by Jonathan P. Berkey
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Islamic popular preachers and storytellers had enormous influence in defining common religious knowledge and faith in the medieval Near East. Jonathan Berkey�s book illuminates the popular culture of religious storytelling. It draws on chronicles, biographical dictionaries, sermons, and tales �...
Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume Two
A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Opium Traders-Volume Two continues the history of opium commerce at a point where the Sassoons of Persia, closely connected with the Rothchilds, won control of the trade. The Sassoons celebrated when the monopoly of the British East India Company was repealed; they used their business expertise and...
Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean
An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 1985
Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations - whether located in the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, or the Far East - constituted areas not only of high culture but also of advanced economic development. They were the First World of human societies. This 1985 book...
The City in the Muslim World
Depictions by Western Travel Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Presenting a critical, yet innovative, perspective on the cultural interactions between the "East" and the "West", this book questions the role of travel in the production of knowledge and in the construction of the idea of the "Islamic city".
This volume brings...