Middle East category: 7830 books
The Process
1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
"Meet your Enemy Number One," a nervous Norwegian diplomat said to Uri Savir, the young director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, as he introduced him to Abu Ala, one of Yasser Arafat's top aides. They were in Oslo, and this was the first official encounter between Israel and the PLO....
Russia and the Arabs
Behind the Scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Part memoir, part history, Russia and the Arabs reveals the past half-century in the Middle East from a viewpoint seldom seen by Westerners. Yevgeny Primakov, formerly the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister of Russia, exposes how key political events...
by Cyrus Schayegh
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Cyrus Schayegh’s socio-spatial history traces how a Eurocentric world economy and European imperialism molded the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Building on this case, he shows that the making of the modern world is best seen as the reciprocal transformation of cities, regions, states, and global networks.
Syria in World War I
Politics, economy, and society
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The First World War quickly escalated from a European war into a global conflict that would cause fundamental changes in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Its end signalled the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, which had controlled most of the Arab Middle East.
Over the wartime...
by André Clot
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Suleiman the Magnificent, most glorious of the Ottoman sultans, kept Europe atremble for nearly half a century. In a few years he led his army as far as the gates of Vienna, made himself master of the Mediterranean and established his court in Baghdad. Faced with this redoubtable champion, who regarded...
The Field of Blood
The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A history of the 1119 Battle of the Field of Blood, which decisively halted the momentum gained during the First Crusade and decided the fate of the Crusader states
During the First Crusade, Frankish armies swept across the Middle East, capturing major cities and setting up the Crusader States...
Qatar
A Modern History, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
What role does Qatar play in the Middle East, and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the ruling Al-Thani family shaped Qatar from a traditional tribal society and British protectorate to a modern state? How has Qatar become an economic superpower with one of the highest per-capita...
Sectarianization
Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
As the Middle East descends ever deeper into violence and chaos, 'sectarianism' has become a catch-all explanation for the region's troubles. The turmoil is attributed to 'ancient sectarian differences', putatively primordial forces that make violent conflict intractable. In media and policy discussions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations....
From Resilience to Revolution
How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the modern Middle East. A key text for foreign policy scholars, From Resilience to Revolution shows how outside...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
This excellent and interesting report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This thesis examines Israel's economic ascendance to one of the most technologically advanced states in the Middle East. The analysis reviews the immigration of Jews into Palestine...
by Peter Riordan
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
In the 1930s, English travel writer H V Morton undertook a series of journeys to the great religious and historical sites of the Middle East. In 2009, travel writer Peter Riordan set off in his footsteps, a journey that took him through Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Cyprus and Greece....
The Fires of Spring
A Post-Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East - Turkey, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Tunisia
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Turkey, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Tunisia
The “Arab Spring” all started when a young Tunisian fruit seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples and slapping his face. The aftermath of that one personal protest grew to become the Middle East...
by Salim Tamari, Mark LeVine
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on...