Middle East category: 7830 books
The Yom Kippur War
The Arab-Israeli Conflict of 1973
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Yom Kippur War in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Yom Kippur War.On 6 October 1973, the Egyptians and Syrians attacked the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan...
by Elliot Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A Vintage Shorts Original Selection
“Why do some forms of violence—the beheading of journalists by the Islamic State, a bombing in Ankara, or the attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando—make us feel so threatened, while other forms—the 372 separate mass shootings in America in 2015 or the...
by Michael J. Totten
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Prize-winning author and award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten returns with a riveting tour of some of the worst places on earth in the early 21st century.
From crumbling Havana, Cuba—still stubbornly communist decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall—to a comparatively...
The Syria Report
The West's Destruction of Syria to Gain Control Over Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Written by the team of Special Operations veterans at SOFREP, THE SYRIA REPORT is a behind-the-scenes look at the roots of the drama and unrest that is unfolding in Syria. Based on information from sources within the intelligence community, using historical case studies and on-the-ground assets, author...
The Aleppo Codex
In Pursuit of One of the World's Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known...
They Dare to Speak Out
People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The first book to speak out against the pervasive influence of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on American politics, policy, and institutions resonates today as never before. With careful documentation and specific case histories, former congressman Paul Findley demonstrates...
In Days to Come
A New Hope for Israel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
"The first childhood memory I have of my father is linked to the destruction of empires--the collapse of a world order that had once seemed eternal."
So begins Avraham Burg's authoritative and deeply personal inquiry into the ambitions and failures of Israel and Judaism worldwide.
Born...
Jerusalem & Tel Aviv Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and is holy to the three major monotheistic religions of the world – Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Once considered the center of the world, the Holy City of Jerusalem has always fascinated travelers and pilgrims with its rich history and culture that dates...
by Kieran Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In late 2007, a young Canadian student and three friends plunge themselves into the Middle East, seeking and filming stories that explore the conflict-ridden societies of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. They meet with refugees fleeing political persecution, hardened Lebanese...
Inside The Mirage
America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has always been a marriage of convenience, not affection. In a bargain cemented by President Roosevelt and Saudi Arabia's founding king in 1945, Americans gained access to Saudi oil, and the Saudis responded with purchases of American planes,...
Through Dust and Darkness
A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionalized in A Complicated Kindness. From childhood through college, Kroeker attended Christian schools...
Our Last Best Chance
A Story of War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today.
When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations,...
Gender and Dance in Modern Iran
Biopolitics on stage
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
* Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage* investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity, urbanism, and religiosity across the twentieth century.
Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body, its space...
Like Dreamers
The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Winner of the Everett Family Jewish Book of the Year Award (a National Jewish Book Award) and the RUSA Sophie Brody Medal.
In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel...