Israel category: 987 books
Pay No Heed to the Rockets
Life in Contemporary Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Pay No Heed to the Rockets tells a fresh story about Palestine, one that begins with art rather than war, and one that intentionally avoids depicting Palestinians as merely one-half of the Israeli/Palestinian binary
For readers who loved Reading Lolita in Tehran and the travel writing of Paul...
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...
Jewish Journeys in Jerusalem
A Tourist Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Jewish Journeys in Jerusalem: A Tourist's Guide is a travel guide designed to give tourists a Jewish experience when visiting the city. The book covers interesting background about popular sites and fascinating details about lesser-known places. How was the Talmudic era grave of Nicanor found? Which...
by Rob Simms, Amir Koushkani
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Mohammad Reza Shajarian’s Avaz in Iran and Beyond, 1979–2010 is a comprehensive study of the legacy of Mohammad Reza Shajarian, the greatest living exponent of avaz, the traditional art of singing classical Persian poetry. Picking up where the authors’ previous volume (The Art of Avaz and Mohammad...
The Templars
The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, while inspiring popular culture from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown. In The Templars, author Michael Haag offers a definitive...
Pumpkinflowers
A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
“A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Friedman’s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried...
by Amin Maalouf
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. Under Saladin, an unstoppable Muslim army inspired by prophets and poets finally succeeded...
by Shailer Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
•Covers the history of Palestine 175 B.C. 70 A.D. , from the time of Seleucid rule to the emergence of the Christian Church.Shailer Mathews was a Christian theologian and noted author, serving as the dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Mathews A History of New Testament Times...
We Belong to the Land
The Story of a Palestinian Israeli Who Lives for Peace and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, world-renowned Palestinian priest, Elias Chacour, narrates the gripping story of his life spent working to achieve peace and reconciliation among Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims. From the destruction of his boyhood village and his work as a...
All the Shah's Men
An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and...
Lawrence and Aaronsohn
T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
The rivalry that presaged the world's most tenacious conflict
As the Arab-Israeli conflict continues to plague the Middle East, historian Ronald Florence offers extraordinary new insights on its origins. This is the story of T. E. Lawrence, the young British officer who became famous around...
by A. J. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1998
“An essential purchase for anyone interested in modern Middle East history.” —Jerusalem Post
The strife-torn three decades of British rule over Palestine, known as the Mandate, is one of the great dramas in British imperial history, and remains passionately controversial now, some fifty...
by Louis Ginzberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg was born into a religious family whose piety and erudition was well...
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
recent events-- from the aid flotilla attack, to the blockade of Gaza and three week "Operation Cast Lead" bombing campaign of 2008--have brought the Palestinian plight to international prominence, engendering a growing interest in the subject and an organized, built-in audience of dedicated...