Middle East category: 7830 books
Nixon Administration and the Middle East Peace Process, 1969–1973
From the Rogers Plan to the Outbreak of the Yom Kippur War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Yom Kippur War was a watershed moment in Israeli society and a national trauma whose wounds have yet to heal some four decades later. In the years following the war many studies addressed the internal and international political background prior to the war, attempting to determine causes and steps...
The Arab Revolution
Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
When Mohammad Bouazizi sets himself on fire on December 17, 2010, he started a series of extraordinary events that spread across the Middle East with stunning rapidity. In less than a month, President Ben Ali fled Tunisia, ending a twenty-three year regime. Shortly thereafter, on 11 February 2011,...
States of Separation
Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Across the Middle East in the post–World War I era, European strategic moves converged with late Ottoman political practice and a newly emboldened Zionist movement to create an unprecedented push to physically divide ethnic and religious minorities from Arab Muslim majorities. States of Separation...
Ideology and Power in the Middle East
Studies in Honor of George Lenczowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Scholars from the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East combine their talents and expertise to honor George Lenczowski, whose studies of the Middle East over two generations have made him a foremost expert on contemporary affairs in this most volatile and complex region.
Lawrence of Arabia's War
The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This radically new perspective on T. E. Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and WWI in the Middle East provides essential insight into today’s violent conflicts.
Archaeologist and historian Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research in the Middle East to offer the first truly multidisciplinary...
Hell in the Holy Land
World War I in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In the modern popular imagination, the British Army's campaign in the Middle East during World War I is considered somehow less brutal than the fighting on European battlefields. A romantic view of this conflict has been further encouraged by such films as Lawrence of Arabia and The Light Horsemen....
Beyond the Arab Spring
The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The Arab Spring occurred within the context of the unravelling of the dominant 'ruling bargain' that emerged across the Middle East in the 1950s. This is being replaced by a new and in- choate system that redefines sources of authority and legitimacy through various devices (such as constitutions),...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
From the presidency of George Washington through the beginning of the Cold War, Americans have forged and maintained ties with the peoples of the Middle East. These bonds strengthened in 1949 with the establishment of the Middle East Force and a permanent U.S. naval presence in the Arabian Gulf. They...
Syrian Conflagration
The Syrian Civil War, 2011-2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
The Syrian Civil War, (the colloquial name of the ongoing conflict in Syria), has experienced an entirely unexpected transformation during its first two years. It started as unrest within the Syrian population and a series of mass demonstrations within the context of wider protest movements in the...
by William M. Habeeb
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Since the end of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, conflict in the Middle East has been increasingly wrought with internal struggles, driven by ethnic, inter-communal, and religious differences. Islamic radicalism has grown as an internal threat, and foreign intervention is now a potential catalyst....
From June to October
Middle East Between 1967 and 1973
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The causes of the October War in Israel can be traced to the political, economic, and strategic processes that occurred in the Middle East between 1967 and 1973. The papers compiled in this book were presented in the aftermath of the October War at an international colloquium held at Tel Aviv University.The...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Due to the presence of weapons of mass destruction and the will to employ them in the Middle East, the operational commander of the next conflict must understand and employ a new deterrent...
Syria and the USA
Washington's Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The conclusion of World War I and the subsequent breakup of the Ottoman Empire led to the
independence of a number of Arab nations and resulted in a Western scramble for roles of
control and influence over them. It was not until after World War I that Syria and the United States had...
by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East,...