Middle East category: 7830 books
by Jude Howell, Diane Mulligan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Over the last two decades there has been considerable enthusiasm for the concept of civil society amongst researchers, practitioners and activists. Yet despite this enthusiasm for the concept, the gendered nature of civil society and the impact of feminist organizing on civil society has received...
Eothen
Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
"My favorite travel book. Sparkling, ironic, and terrific fun." — Jan Morris
Eothen ("From the East") recaptures a bold young Englishman's exploits in the Middle East during the 1830s. Alexander William Kinglake recounts his rambles through the Balkans, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria,...
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
IN the autumn of 1852, through the medium of my excellent friend, the late General Monteith, I offered my services to the Royal Geographical Society of London, for the purpose of removing that opprobrium to modern adventure, the huge white blot which in our maps still notes the Eastern and the Central...
Allah, Jesus, and Yahweh
The Gods That Failed
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Allah, Jesus, and Yahweh: The Gods That Failed deals with the moral and intellectual damage caused by religion the subject of many of today's headlines. There have been at least five major religious invasions from Asia into Europe. In particular, the Middle East seems a virtual hatchery for faith...
Lost Islamic History
Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and...
In Defence of Britain's Middle Eastern Empire
A Life of Sir Gilbert Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) described his war-time chief as "the perfect leader", a man who "worked by influence rather than by loud direction. … He was like water, or permeating oil, creeping silently and insistently through everything. It was not possible to say where Clayton was...
Syria - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
After years of diplomatic isolation Syria is emerging from the cold. Its government is a key Middle Eastern player, and will be a major element of any possible comprehensive Middle Eastern peace deal. To visit Syria is to become acquainted with one of the most rewarding destinations in the Middle...
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt
Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in the societies these texts describe? What about non-Muslims, whose own religious traditions descended partly...
The Middle Eastern Economy
Studies in Economics and Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This collection of essays covers economic issues of the Middle East during both the 19th and 20th centuries. The topics included in the book range from the economics of the export of Turkish labour to Western Europe to the economy of Central Asia and the study of coalminers in Eregli.
by Dr. Neill Lochery
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The first English-language biography of Benjamin Netanyahu, the divisive and controversial Prime Minister of Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the longest serving Prime Ministers of Israel. For much of the world, Netanyahu is a right-wing nationalist zealot; for many Israelis he is a centrist...
The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973
The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms the USSR's role in shaping Middle Eastern and global history. This book covers the peak...
Ottoman Women during World War I
Everyday Experiences, Politics, and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
During war time, the everyday experiences of ordinary people - and especially women - are frequently obscured by elite military and social analysis. In this pioneering study, Elif Mahir Metinsoy focuses on the lives of ordinary Muslim women living in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War....
by Avi Shlaim
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
The first major account of the life of an extraordinary soldier and statesman, King Hussein of Jordan.
Throughout his long reign (1953—1999), Hussein remained a dominant figure in Middle Eastern politics and a consistent proponent of peace with Israel. For over forty years he walked a tightrope...
Geographies of Liberation
The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the...