Middle East category: 7830 books
by Francis A. Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The just resolution of the Palestinian right of return is at the very heart of the Middle East peace process. Nonetheless, the Obama administration intends to impose a comprehensive peace settlement upon the Palestinians that will force them to give up their well-recognized right of return under United...
The Last Crusades
Abdullah of Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The Last Crusades chronicles the dysfunctional relations between the West and Islam that led up to 9/11. It provides an in-depth historical preview of how Palestine was overtaken by Zionists with the help of the British. It graphically illustrates how Zionists forcefully ran the Palestinians out of Palestine...
Travel Letters from an American Living in the Middle East-Bahrain
And Other Travel Tales
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
.Bahrain
.Egypt
.Italy
.Turkey
.Greece
.Thailand
.Cyprus
.Amsterdam
.Oman
.Dubai
.Belgium
.South Africa
.France
.England
.Scotland
.Wales
Marhaba Your Dubai Guide
Visitors, Tourists, Jobseekers, New to Dubai Expatiates, Business Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
The Guide without Which Seeing or Living in Dubai is Incomplete Dubai is a wonderful metropolitan city in the Middle East that shines like a pearl for the entire region. It is a large city inside UAE that is also one of the 7 emirates making up the country. Dubai is a global city visited by millions...
Israeli Society in the Twenty-First Century
Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This volume illuminates changes in Israeli society over the past generation. Goldscheider identifies three key social changes that have led to the transformation of Israeli society in the twenty-first century: the massive immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union, the economic shift to a high-tech...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
During the Middle Ages, rulers from different regions aspired to an idea of imperial hegemony. On the other hand, there were rulers who deliberately refused to be «emperors», although their reign showed characteristics of imperial rule. The contributions in this volume ask for the reasons why some...
by Gad G. Gilbar
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This study provides a general outline of Palestinian population growth between 1948 and 1987 and then focuses on the town of Nablus for a detailed analysis of the main aspects of Palestinian migration and high rates of natural increase. The author shows how the recession that struck the Arab oil economies...
Zionism
The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
From serving as the Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker to penning articles for the New York Times, Milton Viorst has dedicated his career to studying the Middle East. Now, in this new book, Viorst examines the evolution of Zionism, from its roots by serving as a cultural refuge for Europe's...
by John W. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2008
Moscows ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran underwent dramatic fluctuations following Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeinis triumphant return to Tehran in 1979. After a prolonged implosion, they fitfully expanded, shaped not only by the rush of current events but by centuries of ingrained practices and prejudices....
Beyond Sunni and Shia
The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict during a period of upheaval in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines how political economy, geopolitics, domestic governance,...
by Michael M. Gunter
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
The A to Z of the Kurds covers the largest nation on Earth that does not have its own independent state. Scholars, government officials who are dealing with the Middle East and the Kurds, the news media, as well as the general reader will find this an accessible historical account about a people who...
Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age
Religious Authority and Internal Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Among traditionally educated scholars in the Islamic world there is much disagreement on the crises that afflict modern Muslim societies and how best to deal with them, and the debates have grown more urgent since 9/11. Through an analysis of the work of Muhammad Rashid Rida and Yusuf al-Qaradawi...
Between Dissent and Power
The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
This study examines the collective progression of Islamic politics between points of dissent and positions of power. It brings about a more a serious understanding of Islamic politics by critically tracing the pathways by which Islamic politics has been transformed in the Middle East and Asia.
Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World
The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by architectural and textual historians and archaeologists, engendering exciting new perspectives on urban life in the pre-modern Islamic world. Its objective is to move beyond...