Middle East category: 7830 books
Water on Sand
Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era. As the first holistic environmental history of the region, it shows the intimate connections between peoples and environments and how...
Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion
Britain, Jordan and the End of Empire in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
During the 1950s, John Glubb and the Arab Legion became the 'cornerstone' of Britain's imperial presence in the Middle East. Based on unprecedented access to the unofficial archive of the Arab Legion, including a major accession of Glubb's private papers, Graham Jevon examines and revises Britain's...
by Michael Scott-Baumann
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC
Level: A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History...
The Iron Wall
Israel and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on Israel's most recent leaders
In the 1920s, hard-line Zionists developed the doctrine of the 'Iron Wall': negotiations with the Arabs...
Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion
Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region's political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers and as the momentum of religious...
The Missing Peace
The Role of Religion in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Egypt in the sixties and seventies for the Salem family was a balance between keeping Islamic tradition at home and attending the secular system of public schools, which would provide us with the best of opportunities, and form us into what my parents considered model Muslims. Both traditional Islamic...
Fathers and Sons
The Rise and Fall of Political Dynasty in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This book traces the rise of the political dynasty in the Middle East and, in the process, provides the context for the current Arab uprising. The author shows that a father-to-son transfer of power has no basis in Islam, and yet the idea of dynastic power became entrenched in the Middle East.
The Last Mufti of Iranian Kurdistan
Ethnic and Religious Implications in the Greater Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Amidst changing notions of religion and identity in the modern Middle East, this book uncovers the hidden story of Ahmad Moftizadeh, the nonviolent religious leader of Iran’s Kurds during the Iranian Revolution. The characters of Ayatollah Khomeini and a number of other prominent revolutionaries...
by John Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
John Fisher explores the acquisitive thinking which, from the autumn of 1914, drove the Mesopotamian Expedition, and examines the political issues, international and imperial, delegated to a War Cabinet committee under Lord Curzon. The motives of Curzon and others in attempting to obtain a privileged...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
A French built Caravelle III jet leased to Middle East Airlines of Beirut, Lebanon crashed on the edge of the Persian Gulf during a violent sandstorm on April 17, 1964. No survivors among a large group of Arabian American Oil Company personnel and their families were found. The wreckage of Flight...
by Oliver Borszik
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Scientific Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: eins, University of Hamburg (Asien Afrika Institut), course: Radical Islam, 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The article deals with the following questions: what does modernity...
The Crisis of Islamism
Its Causes and How to Address Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Winner of the 2016 IPPY Bronze Medal in Current Events I; Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs:
Menacing threats arising out of the Middle East continue to capture the attention of the international community. The manifestations of these problems are painfully evident: a lack of security, civil...
Women in the Middle East and North Africa
Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book examines the position of women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Although it is culturally diverse, this region shares many commonalities with relation to women that are strong, deep, and pervasive: a space-based patriarchy, a culturally strong sense of religion,...
The Middle East and Brazil
Perspectives on the New Global South
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Connections between Brazil and the Middle East have a long history, but the importance of these interactions has been heightened in recent years by the rise of Brazil as a champion of the global south, mass mobilizations in the Arab world and South America, and the cultural renaissance of Afro-descendant...