Middle East category: 7830 books
by Alan Axelrod PhD
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The Middle East is a pressure cooker of constant upheaval, and always with the threat of war in the air. But digging deeper reveals that there are complex dynamics at work, both culturally and politically, and understanding the conflict in this region starts with understanding not only recent events,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Chronicling the British military's invasion of Iraq in 1917, Eleanor Franklin Egan was an intrepid American journalist whose autobiographical account of her time spent amongst British officers describes the relationship between British and American forces in the Middle East during and just after World...
by Blane Conklin
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Readers will explore some of the biggest issues that have happened in the Middle East and learn about the impact that these happenings have effected people all over the world. The vibrant images, stunning and engaging sidebars, accessible glossary and index, and easy-to-read text make this book a...
Spring Fever
The Illusion of Islamic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The first fundamental truth about the "Arab Spring" is that there never was one. The salient fact of the Middle East, the only one, is Islam. The Islam that shapes the Middle East inculcates in Muslims the self-perception that they are members of a civilization implacably hostile to the West. The United...
by Jehan Sadat
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
From the distinguished educator, international crusader for humanitarian causes, and widow of the Nobel Peace Prize-winner President Anwar Sadat comes a foolproof plan for peace in the Middle East.
In 1979, the Camp David Accords, brokered by Jimmy Carter between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem...
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who...
The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security
Domestic and International Ramifications
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This volume analyzes the political, economic and strategic dimensions of the recent upheavals in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring.
Mass demonstrations in many Arab states challenged the political status quo and the existing political and cultural system in the region. While it is too...
The UAE and Foreign Policy
Foreign Aid, Identities and Interests
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
This book offers a concise and detailed analysis of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) foreign aid as a main instrument in its foreign policy. Exploring the cultural factors that have impacted on the foreign policy behaviour of the UAE and its foreign aid, the author argues that Arabism and Islamic traditions...
by Habib C. Malik
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This is a sobering account of the ordeal of Christian Arabs of the Middle East in this era of Islamist radicalism. Although those Christians are leaving their homelands in record numbers, the author laments, the powers of the West have shown little interest in their fate.
Temptations of Power
Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms...
Islam in History
Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous...
Shadow Wars
The Secret Struggle for the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
For more than a century successive US and UK governments have sought to thwart nationalist, socialist and pro-democracy movements in the Middle East. Through the Cold War, the War on Terror’ and the present era defined by the Islamic State, the Western powers have repeatedly manipulated the region’s...
by Hichem Karoui
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers?...
The World Through Arab Eyes
Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The uprisings that transformed the Middle East beginning in 2011 have left experts scrambling to understand where the region is likely to go in years to come. But missing from most of the analysis is a longer view of the evolution of Arab Public opinion and identity and how this is likely to influence...