Middle East category: 7830 books
Memory and Conflict in Lebanon
Remembering and Forgetting the Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This book examines the legacy of Lebanon’s civil war and how the population, and the youth in particular, are dealing with their national past. Drawing on extensive qualitative research and social observation, the author explores the efforts of those who wish to remember, so as not to repeat past...
Learning in Morocco
Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently....
The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey
Political Violence, Fear and Pain
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain through an analysis of life stories, personal narratives and testimonies of Kurdish subjects in contemporary Turkey. It traces the physical and psychological impacts of the war...
Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf
Manama since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
In this path-breaking and multi-layered account of one of the least explored societies in the Middle East, Nelida Fuccaro examines the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in Bahrain. Written as an ethnography of space, politics and community, it addresses...
Reconstructing Beirut
Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Once the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, which dislocated many residents, disrupted normal municipal functions, and destroyed the vibrant downtown district. The aftermath of the war was an unstable situation Sawalha considers...
Yemen in Crisis
Road to War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Expert analysis of Yemen's social and political crisis, with profound implications for the fate of the Arab World
The democratic promise of the 2011 Arab Spring has unraveled in Yemen, triggering a disastrous crisis of civil war, famine, militarization, and governmental collapse with serious...
Understanding Islam and Christianity
Beliefs That Separate Us and How to Talk About Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
For years, international apologist Josh McDowell has been alert to the challenge of Islam—and how Muslims’ objections to Christianity can raise deep doubts in believers’ minds. His recent on-the-ground research with Muslims in the Middle East has crystallized into this practical resource focusing...
The Politics and Security of the Gulf
Anglo-American Hegemony and the Shaping of a Region
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Since the 19th century the Gulf region has been an area of intense interest, having been influenced first by the British and more recently by the Americans. This book charts the changing security and political priorities of these two powers and how they have shaped the region.
Adopting a narrative...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This important 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
This study examines the U.S. Navy's current strategy in the Persian Gulf and assesses which aspect of that strategy—deterrence or assurance—makes a more significant contribution...
Belated Travelers
Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1994
In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, late nineteenth-century...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In 1948, Britain withdrew from Palestine, bringing to an end its 30 years of rule in the territory. What followed has been well-documented and is perhaps one of the most intractable problems of the post-imperial age. However, the long-standing connection between Britain and Palestine before May 1948...
by Daniel Allen Butler
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven centuries. At the height of its power, it stretched over three continents and produced marvels of architecture, literature, science, and warfare. When it fell, its collapse redrew the map of the world and changed the course of history.Shadow of...
by Paul E. Lovejoy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book examines the jihād movement in...
The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Parallel Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
The conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians is considered intractable by many, and is frequently characterised by the violence between the two sides. In attempts at peace, the starting point for negotiations is a cessation of violence; beneath this, however, lies a plethora of other issues...