Middle East category: 7830 books
Negotiating for the Past
Archaeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 was a landmark event in Egyptology that was celebrated around the world. Had Howard Carter found his prize a few years earlier, however, the treasures of Tut might now be in the British Museum in London rather than the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. That's...
Media, War and Terrorism
Responses from the Middle East and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9/11 and beyond, from the point of view of Middle Eastern and Asian countries. The first part of the book deals with the use of the media as an instrument of warfare, the growing significance of religion, the emergence...
by Mahmood Ibrahim
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The rise of merchant capital in Mecca conditioned the development of Meccan social, economic, religious, and political structure. Mahmood Ibrahim traces the roots of capitalism from the emergence of merchants as the main force in Mecca through the first civil war in Islam (656–661). Through a rereading...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this excellent monograph details the use of the U-2 spy plane during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the liberation of Kuwait from Iraq.
American President George Bush reacted quickly to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. On...
Hamas, Jihad and Popular Legitimacy
Reinterpreting Resistance in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This book investigates the many faces of Hamas and examines its ongoing evolution as a resistance organisation in the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Specifically, the work interrogates Hamas’ interpretation, reinterpretation and application of the twin concepts of muqawama (resistance)...
Velvet Jihad
Muslim Women's Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2009
There are numerous conflicts ensuing in the Middle East, but not all are being fought with rockets and rifles. While the Internet has proven invaluable to those who wish to uphold a patriarchal society and spread the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim women have used the Web to build a transnational...
International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been intertwined with, and has had a profound influence on, the principles of modern international law. Placing a rights-based approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the centre of discussions over its peaceful resolution, this book provides detailed...
Politics in Morocco
Executive Monarchy and Enlightened Authoritarianism
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Democratization and the process of political reform is a critical issue in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. This book looks at the situation in Morocco and examines the role of the monarchy and the relative strengths and weaknesses of the Islamic and secular/liberal groupings campaigning...
Under Osman's Tree
The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman’s empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the longest-lasting empire in the history of Islam,...
The Pasha's Bedouin
Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Egypt’s history is interwoven with conflicts of Bedouin, governments and peasants, competing over same cultivated lands and of migrations of nomads from the deserts to the Nile Valley. Mehemet Ali’s era represented the initial ending of the traditional tribalism, and the beginning of emergence...
Halal Food
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Food trucks announcing "halal" proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Here Middle Eastern historians Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene provide an accessible introduction to halal (permissible) food in the Islamic tradition, exploring what...
Regional Security in the Middle East
Past Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Middle Eastern politics of the 1990s have been characterized by a drive towards peace. Whether this is successful or not will depend on the negotiating process. These articles discuss the challenges, and provide some practical advice on how risks of failure could be avoided.
Bodies, Power and Resistance in the Middle East
Experiences of Subjectification in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The book examines how exercises of power and processes of security exercised in the Occupied Palestinian Territories have formed Palestinian women as subjects.
To understand how women experience occupation, this book examines the various ways in which the occupation is directed at making Palestinian...
by Frederic Macler
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
LYING across the chief meeting-place of Europe and Asia, Armenia suffered immeasurably more from the conflict of two civilizations than it profited by their exchange of goods and ideas. If the West penetrated the East under pressure from Rome, Byzantium, or crusading Europe, if the East moved westwards,...