Middle East category: 7830 books
by Malcolm Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
With ramifications on geopolitics today, a vivid chronicle of the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the sacred places of Palestine and the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth centuries.
Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin: each...
Empires, Wars, and Battles
The Middle East from Antiquity to the Rise of the New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
As current events have made painfully obvious, the Middle East is a region long torn by strife and traditions of warfare. In this elegant, fast-paced, and well thought out cultural and military history, T. C. F. Hopkins, author of Confrontation at Lepanto, provides a remarkable glimpse into the origins...
by Marvin E. Gettleman, Stuart Schaar
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
**“The many facets of Middle Eastern history and politics are admirably represented in this far-ranging anthology.” —**Publishers Weekly
In this insightful anthology, historians Marvin E. Gettleman and Stuart Schaar have assembled a broad selection of documents and contemporary scholarship...
Nothing Abides
Perspectives on the Middle East and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Daniel Pipes has collected some of his sharpest and most prescient writings from the quarter century 1989�2014. In them, he addresses a range of current topics, from the origins of the civil war in Syria to denying the Islamic factor in terrorism, to the way to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict....
by Michael Provence
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
The Great Syrian Revolt of 1925 was the largest and longest-lasting anti-colonial insurgency in the inter-war Arab East. Mobilizing peasants, workers, and army veterans, rather than urban elites and nationalist intellectuals, it was the first mass movement against colonial rule in the Middle East....
The Chaldean Catholic Church
Modern History, Ecclesiology and Church-State Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book provides a modern historical study of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq from 2003 to 2013, against a background analysis of the origins and ecclesiological development of the Chaldean community from the sixteenth century onwards.
The book offers an insight into the formation of...
by Marwan Muasher
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Marwan Muasher, a prominent Jordanian diplomat, has been instrumental in shaping Middle East peace efforts for nearly twenty years. He served as Jordan’s first ambassador to Israel and was also ambassador to the United States, spokesperson at peace talks in Madrid and Washington, minister of foreign...
British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan
King Hussein, Nasser and the Middle East Crisis, 1955–1958
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Within two years of their abortive invasion of the Suez Canal zone in 1956, British troops once again intervened in a major Middle Eastern country. The Jordan intervention of July 1958 took place despite the steady decline of the British position in the country over the previous three years. This...
Untold Histories of the Middle East
Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices. This book examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics.
With...
by Andrew Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Ideal for students and general readers, this single-volume work serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in countries in North Africa and the Middle East, covering subjects ranging from the latest young adult book craze in Egypt to the hottest movies in Saudi Arabia.
• Allows readers...
by Sylvia G. Haim, Elie Kedourie
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Published in 1988, Essays on the Economic History of the Middle East is a valuable contribution to the field of Middle Eastern Studies.
by John Chalcraft
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the importance of contentious politics in the Middle East and North Africa. John Chalcraft's ground-breaking account of popular protest emphasizes the revolutionary...
Caught in Crossfire
Civilians in Conflicts in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Examining the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict, Lebanese civil war and the periodic upsurges of inter-state and internal tensions in the Gulf region, this book looks at how civilians are at the forefront of military conflicts and violence in the Middle East. The unsung heroes and real victims of wars...
Turkey's Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan
State Identity and Security in the Middle East and Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
With the end of the Cold War came a new political instability in Turkey and a shift in relations with the West, leading the government to adopt new foreign policies and forge alliances with neighbouring states. This book offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the trilateral...