Middle East category: 7830 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
You don't want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Welcome to the Middle East, where Israel and her neighbors have been engaged in diplomatic and military conflicts for nearly 64 years, with roots in the disputes dating back over 2,000 years...
by Samuel Zwemer
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Samuel Zwemer (1867-1852) was an American missionary to the Middle East and an avid writer, speaker and teacher. He was known as the “Apostle to Islam” for his untiring efforts to reach them with the Good News of Jesus Christ.
ZIGZAG JOURNEYS was originally written in 1911...
by Samy Swayd
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
One of the most intriguing minority groups in the Middle East is now a thousand years old. It emerged in the city of Cairo, spread to what is today Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, and subsequently became known by outsiders as Druze (in Arabic, Durooz, meaning Druzes). Druzes have played a major role in...
The Abyss
Bridging the Divide between Israel and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Eli Avidar looks into the abyss that divides Israel from its Arab neighbors, in order to understand the inherent flaws, prevailing misunderstandings, and tragic mistakes that characterize the relations and bloodletting, and how, if at all possible, to bridge the differences. In doing so, he offers...
by Tariq Ramadan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear....
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
A Philosophical Tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided—but also unimpeded—by...
Days of God
The Revolution in Iran and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A myth-busting insider’s account of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that destroyed US influence in the country and transformed the politics of the Middle East and the world.
The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran was one of the seminal events of our time. It inaugurated more than thirty years...
Going to Tehran
Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
An eye-opening argument for a new approach to Iran, from two of America's most informed and influential Middle East experts
Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war...
Warriors of God
Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle...
The Arabic Print Revolution
Cultural Production and Mass Readership
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
In a brief historic moment, printing presses, publishing ventures, a periodical press, circulation networks, and a mass readership came into being all at once in the Middle East, where none had previously existed, with ramifications in every sphere of the community's life. Among other outcomes, this...
by Jeffrey Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
“[Jeffrey Lee] brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th century Levant.”—Dan Jones, Sunday Times (UK)
In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead for 800 years.
Born in twelfth-century France and bred...
The Woman Who Fought an Empire
Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring.
Following...
Ottoman Nizamiye Courts
Law and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A fresh look at one of the most important landmarks in the passage of the Ottoman Middle East to modernity during the late nineteenth century, this book explores the Nizamiye court system. The author offers an innovative conceptualization to serve as an alternative to common - yet poorly grounded...
EOTHEN
Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This is an extraordinary work of travel writing that is more about the author's personal exploration than it is about monuments and museums. Inspired by a journey with an Eton colleague ten years prior, this memoir exemplifies how travel can become a personal experience and change who we are. Though...