Middle East category: 7830 books
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled
Voices from Syria
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL
Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.
Against...
Arafat and the Dream of Palestine
An Insider's Account
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Abu Sharif was one of the world's most notorious and dangerous terrorists in the 60's and 70's, acting as "minister of propaganda" for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and as a recruiter for terrorists like Carlos the Jackal. In 1972, a bomb was placed in a book and...
The Iran-Iraq War
Saddam Hussein’s Attack in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Iran-Iraq War in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Iran-Iraq War. On 22 September 1980, Saddam Hussein attacked the Shatt al-Arab with the aim of annexing...
Palestinian Walks
Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the...
Where God Was Born
A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible and Abraham, travels ten thousand miles through the heart of the Middle East—Israel, Iraq, and Iran—and examines the question: Is religion...
The Miracle of the Kurds
A Remarkable Story of Hope Reborn In Northern Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The story of one American's Quixote-like vision for Kurdistan following Saddam's barbarous attacks of the early 1990s - encouraging the Kurds to build one of the most remarkable, hopeful, and prosperous cultures in not just the Middle East but the world.
Saturday People, Sunday People
Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Saturday People, Sunday People is a unique portrait of Israel as seen through the eyes of a Christian who came for a visit and has stayed on for more than six years. Long fascinated by a land that has become an abstraction centering on international conflicts of epic proportions, Lela Gilbert arrived...
The First Muslim
The Story of Muhammad
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
**The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited—and remade.
Lesley Hazleton's new book, Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, is out now from Riverhead Books.**
Muhammad’s was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic...
Destiny Disrupted
A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic point of view, and restores the centrality of the Muslim perspective, ignored for a thousand years.
In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich...
by Ilan Pappe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.
Denied...
by Mahmood Datoo
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The book starts by tracing the ancestors of Imam Husein (as) and Yazeed, the two principal figures involved in the tragedy of Karbala. The family tree of Imam Husein (as) is looked at in detail, with particular reference to those who are connected with the tragedy of Karbala.
The book then...
Fortress Israel
The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country--and Why They Can't Make Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
"Once in the military system, Israelis never fully exit," writes the prizewinning journalist Patrick Tyler in the prologue to Fortress Israel. "They carry the military identity for life, not just through service in the reserves until age forty-nine . . . but through lifelong expectations...
Righteous Victims
A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Righteous Victims, by the noted historian Benny Morris, is a comprehensive and
objective history of the long battle between Arabs and Jews for possession of a land they both call home. It appears at a most timely juncture, as the bloody and protracted struggle seems at last to be headed for resolution.
With...
The Sunni-Shiæa Divide
Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Until the attacks of September 11, 2001, few Americans knew anything about Islam, let alone about the distinctions between Sunni and Shiæa, the Sufi and Wahhabi, the origins of the Holy QurÆan and Shariæa law, and the respect that all Muslims, even secular ones, harbor for the prophet Muhammad,...