Middle East category: 7830 books
A View from the Eye of the Storm
Terror and Reason in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 2004, internationally known physicist Haim Harari was invited to address the advisory board of a major multinational corporation. In a short speech he offered a penetrating analysis of the components of terror, and presented a passionate call for a new era in the Middle East. The speech, entitled...
The Fall of the Ottomans
The Great War in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East
An Economist Best Book of the Year
By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The...
Enemies and Neighbors
Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Sebastian Faulks’s pick for the Guardian’s best books of 2017, a Financial Times and Economist best book of 2017 in politics, and a Sunday Times (UK) best book of 2017. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice pick.
Enemies and Neighbors is a big, textured, and, crucially, balanced...
The Poisoned Well
Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
The conflicts and crises of today's Middle East are rooted in the colonial era. To better understand them, we need to acknowledge how Western imperialism negatively shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between World War I and the happenings of the Cold War. That is the challenging...
by Fred Halliday
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Much has been written in recent years about the Middle East. At the same time, no other region has been as misunderstood, nor framed in so many clichés and mistakenly-held beliefs. In this much-needed exposé Fred Halliday selects one hundred of the most commonly misconstrued 'facts' - in the political,...
A History of the Middle East
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
**The definitive history of the Middle East, thoroughly revised and updated
"The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab World." -The Washington Post**
One of the most crucial, volatile, and complex regions of the modern world, the...
by Peter Hinchcliffe, Beverley Milton-Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This third edition of Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945 analyzes the nature of conflict in the Middle East, with its racial, ethnic, political, cultural, religious and economic factors. Throughout the book Peter Hinchcliffe and Beverley Milton-Edwards put the main conflicts into their wider...
Reaching for Power
The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
As the world focuses on the conflict in Iraq, the most important political players in that country today are not the Sunni insurgents. Instead, they are Iraq's Shi'I majority--part of the Middle East's ninety million Shi'I Muslims who hold the key to the future of the region and the relations between...
The Modern Middle East
A Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more traditional modernising approaches, Ilan Pappé...
Camera Orientalis
Reflections on Photography of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light—making...
A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East
The Circle of Justice From Mesopotamia to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
From ancient Mesopotamia into the 20th century, "the Circle of Justice" as a concept has pervaded Middle Eastern political thought and underpinned the exercise of power in the Middle East. The Circle of Justice depicts graphically how a government’s justice toward the population generates...
Beyond America's Grasp
A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
AN INCISIVE "WHITE PAPER" ON THE UNITED STATES'S STRUGGLE TO FRAME A COHERENT MIDDLE EAST POLICY
In this book, the Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen traces U.S. policy in the region back to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, when the Great Powers failed to take crucial steps to...
The Arab State
Dilemmas of Late Formation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This book explores the conditions of state formation and survival in the Middle East. Based on Historical Sociology, it provides a model for study of the state in the Arab world and a theory to explain its survival.
Examining states as a ‘process’, the author argues that what emerged in...
The Great War in the Middle East
A Clash of Empires
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Traditionally, in general studies of the First World War, the Middle East is an arena of combat that has been portrayed in romanticised terms, in stark contrast to the mud, blood, and presumed futility of the Western Front. Battles fought in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Arabia offered a different...