Middle East category: 7830 books
by Barbara H. Rosenwein
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Barbara H. Rosenwein's bestselling survey text continues to stand out by integrating the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) in a lively narrative that is complemented beautifully by 70 full-color plates, 46 maps, and 13 genealogies, many of them new to this...
A Short History of the Middle Ages, Volume I
From c.300 to c.1150, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Barbara H. Rosenwein's bestselling survey text continues to stand out by integrating the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) in a lively narrative that is complemented beautifully by full-color plates, maps, and genealogies. The fourth edition begins with an...
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In this “compelling read,” the former Marine artilleryman examines modern tank strategies through true stories of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan (Military Modelcraft International).
In the aftermath of Vietnam a new generation of Marines was determined to wage a smarter kind of war. The...
by Adam Valen Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Chronically questioning, funny, and bold, a young American explores the majority-Muslim lands that scare him most.
Armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson sets out to “learn about the world 9/11 made us fear.” From a base in globalized and sterilized Abu...
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday
Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Since his boyhood in Qadhafi 's Libya, and later as a reporter for more than thirteen years in cities stretching from Tehran to Marrakesh, Neil MacFarquhar has developed a counterintuitive sense that the Middle East, despite all the bloodshed in its contemporary history, is a place of warmth, humanity,...
Hunting Bin Laden
How Al-Qaeda is Winning the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
An in-depth look at why America is losing the War on Terror and what we should do if we really want to defeat Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. "I first met al-Qaeda before there was an al-Qaeda, way back in the winter of 1984. It was an encounter that came within a split second of costing me my life."...
Yemen Chronicle
An Anthropology of War and Mediation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle East
In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in the Middle East; worse, he was soon embroiled...
The Secret History of Iran
How Iran is the Key to both the Survival and the Destruction of the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Iran is an ancient place of extreme contrasts. It is both blessed and cursed. It is home to both Islam and anti-islam. This book attempts to trace out the Secret History of Iran, from 500 B.C. to present.
This book covers the largely unknown secret groups and cabals that continue to dominate...
Sowing Crisis
The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Acclaimed historian and political commentator Rashid Khalidi presents the compelling case that U.S. and Soviet intervention in the Middle East not only exacerbated civil wars and provoked the breakdown of fragile democracies, but continues to this day to shape global conflict in the region. Examining...
The Arabs
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Atlantic -- now updated to cover the latest developments in the Middle East
In this groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East,...
Syria
A History of the Last Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
“A fluent introduction to Syria’s recent past, this book provides the backstory to the country’s collapse into brutal civil conflict” (Andrew Arsan, author of Lebanon: A Country in Fragments).
The fall of Syria into civil war over the past two years has spawned a regional crisis with...
by David W. Lesch
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came to power upon his father's death in 2000, many in- and outside Syria held high hopes that the popular young doctor would bring long-awaited reform, that he would be a new kind of Middle East leader capable of guiding his country toward genuine democracy. David...
The 1967 Arab-Israeli War
Origins and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The June 1967 war was a watershed in the history of the modern Middle East. In six days, the Israelis defeated the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies, seizing large portions of their territories. Two veteran scholars of the Middle East bring together some of the most knowledgeable experts in their...
Black Banners of ISIS
The Roots of the New Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A medieval Islam historian’s incisive portrait of ISIS, revealing the group’s deep ideological and intellectual roots in the earliest days of Islam With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to...