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Hot Skies Over Yemen. Volume 2
Aerial Warfare Over Southern Arabian Peninsula, 1994-2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Following the Civil War of 1994, Yemen experienced few years of relative peace. This was rudely interrupted in 2004, when the government opened the first of six campaigns against the movement colloquially known as ‘Houthis’. The Yemeni Air Force – partially re-equipped over the previous years...
by Wendy Pullan, Maximilian Sternberg, Lefkos Kyriacou
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy Places investigates the role of architecture and urban identity in relation to the political economy of the city and its wider state context seen through the lens of the holy places.
Reflecting the broad disciplinary backgrounds of the authors, this book...
by Jack Forbes
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
DECONSTRUCTING THE CODE is a story of love and lost meaning, treachery and distrust, creative expression and blatant forgery, book burnings and the chance discovery of priceless writings of antiquity. In a new epic play by writer Jack Forbes, DECONSTRUCTING the Code tells the true story of the origins...
by Joseph Francois Michaud
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Chios Classics brings literature’s greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.
The History of the Crusades: All Volumes is an exhaustive, authoritative history of the Crusades.
by Major David A. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
A historical case study concerning the Israeli Army’s response to the Palestinian “Intifada” or uprising in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s provides instructive planning considerations for likely future application of U.S. military force in an asymmetrical threat environment. The monograph...
One Brief Miracle
The Diplomat, the Zealot, and the Wild Blundering Siege
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
A fascinating man. An impossible situation. Thousands of lives at stake. And he pulls off a miracle. That sounds like a formula for novel, and this book does read like one. But the story is true. It is the dramatic tale of how American diplomat Philip Habib worked out a peaceful end to the 1982 Israeli...
Refugees, Human Rights and Realpolitik
The Clandestine Immigration of Jewish Refugees from Italy to Palestine, 1945-1948
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
This book presents a multidimensional case study of international human rights in the immediate post-Second World War period, and the way in which complex refugee problems created by the war were often in direct competition with strategic interests and national sovereignty.
The case study is...
Oriental Neighbors
Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews, and discusses their unique role as political, social, and cultural mediators between Jews and Arabs. Integrating...
Boycott!
The Academy and Justice for Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an...
by Rich Wiles
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2010
Of the approximately seven million Palestinian refugees around the world, more than 650,000 are living in camps along the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Having been forced from their homes, either through violence or the threat of it, those living in these camps, Rich Wiles asserts, suffer greatly from Israeli...
by Salim Tamari
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This rich history of Palestine in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire reveals the nation emerging as a cultural entity engaged in a vibrant intellectual, political, and social exchange of ideas and initiatives. Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Few cities around the world transcend their physical boundaries the way Jerusalem does. As the spiritual capital of monotheism, Jerusalem has ancient roots and legacies that have imposed themselves on its inhabitants throughout the centuries. In modern times, and aside from all the religious complexities,...
Israeli Nationalism
Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The question of nationalism centres around the political, social, and cultural ways by which the concept and practice of a nation is constructed, and what it means to its various bearers. This book examines the issue of Jewish-Israeli nationalism, combining a sociological study of national culture...
by David Gwartney
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
Ephesus was one of the largest and most influential cities in the Roman Empire. It served as the chief city of the Roman province of Asia. The city was also home to one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the colossal Temple of Artemis. Many notable figures from history passed through the city, thus...