Middle East category: 7830 books
Creating the Arabian Gulf
The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
Even whether to call the Gulf 'Arabian' or 'Persian' is an unending argument. Regardless of its name, the Gulf is one of the most politically important regions of the world. Despite its constant presence in the headlines, the fact that it was part of the British Indian empire for many years has gone...
Friends In Deed
Inside the U.S. - Israel Alliance, 1948 - 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1994
As is said of ancient Rome, the alliance between the United States and Israel was not built in a day. Indeed, there was no guarantee that this unique partnership would ever be built at all. It pairs two countries that are separated not only by five thousand miles of land and sea but by other obvious...
The Islamic State
Terror in the Name of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Islamic State in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the history of the Islamic State. The brutal terror attacks in Paris in 2015 sent shockwaves across Europe. The group...
City of Gold
Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Award-winning journalist Jim Krane charts the history of Dubai from its earliest days, considers the influence of the family who has ruled it since the nineteenth century, and looks at the effect of the global economic downturn on a place that many tout as a blueprint for a more stable Middle East
The...
The Battle for Syria
International Rivalry in the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil war Most accounts of Syria’s brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the...
A Fist in the Hornet's Nest
On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During & After the War
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2004
When war broke out in Iraq, every major U.S. network pulled its correspondents from the scene. Despite the risk, Richard Engel stayed. As our tanks entered Baghdad in April 2003, he was there, bringing the Iraqi war into American homes as a stringer for ABC news. Determined to deliver the whole Middle...
In the Service of the Sultan: A first-hand account of the Dhofar Insurgency
A first-hand account of the Dhofar Insurgency
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: the Sultanate of Oman guards the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controls the movement of oil from that region. In the 1960s and 70s, the Communists tried to...
From the Holy Mountain
A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer...
Hamas vs. Fatah
The Struggle For Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
In June 2007 civil war broke out in the Gaza Strip between two rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah. Western peace efforts in the region always focused on reconciling two opposing fronts: Israel and Palestine. Now, this careful exploration of Middle East history over the last two decades reveals...
Holy Lands
Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
When the Ottoman Empire fell apart, colonial powers drew straight lines on the map to create a new region - the Middle East - made up of new countries filled with multiple religious sects and ethnicities. Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, for example, all contained a kaleidoscope of Sunnis, Kurds, Shias, Circassians,...
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Search for Common Ground Award
Middle East Institute Award
Finalist, Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
Stavros Niarchos Prize for Survivorship
Nobel Peace Prize nominee
"A necessary lesson against hatred and revenge" -Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
"In...
by Patrick Kinross
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
The definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.
With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself. It was the creation of one man, the...
1453
The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, sultan...
by Anne Davison
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
The history of the Ottoman Empire, as with most Empires, is complex. It is also a history that is little understood by the general public. At the same time there are many events that occurred within the context of Ottoman history that the general reader may be quite familiar with: for example, the...