Middle East category: 7830 books
Empires and Anarchies
A History of Oil in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Oil lies at the heart of the modern history of the Middle East. For decades, the world’s largest oil reserves have enriched the region’s nations. But oil wealth has not brought with it universal prosperity. It has, though, transformed the Middle Eastern people and societies—enriching empires...
Containing Arab Nationalism
The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States pledged to give increased economic and military aid to receptive Middle Eastern countries and to protect--with U.S. armed forces if necessary--the territorial integrity and political independence of these nations from the threat of "international Communism."...
Danger Pay
Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
"You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as a photojournalist for Newsweek and other publications. In this intensely thoughtful memoir, Spencer Mitchell probes the motivations that impelled her, a single, Jewish woman, to document...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book explores violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities, approaching violence as an individual and collective experience, a historical event, and an urban process. Violence and the city coexist in a complicated dialogue, and critical consideration of the city offers an important...
Oasis n. 22, The Cross and the Black Flag
December 2015 (English Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Fundamentalist violence is raging in the lands where Christianity was born. What Middle East would it be without any Christians? OASIS Year XI - n. 22 - December 2015 -- Eastern Christians: Witnesses to Faith and Creators of Culture - Martino Diez -- Three Lessons from the Martyrs - Cardinal Angelo...
by Blane Conklin
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This intriguing book allows readers to discover some of the most infamous leaders of the Middle East. The Middle East is comprised of many small countries, each with its own government. Through interesting sidebars, supportive text, and an accommodating glossary and index, readers will learn about...
In a Time of Monsters
Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East traveling through a region in revolt. In a Time of Monsters bears witness to the demands of young people...
Tower of the Sun
Stories from the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Prize-winning author Michael J. Totten’s gripping first-person narratives from the war zones, police states, and revolutionary capitals of the Middle East and North Africa paint a vivid picture of peoples and nations at war with themselves, each other, and—sometimes—with the rest of the world.
His...
Don't Panic
ISIS, Terror and Today's Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
It took a quarter-century of bad strategy, including more than a dozen years of Western air attacks and invasions in the Middle East, to bring the so-called "Islamic State" into existence. Can we somehow manage to avoid the well-trodden path of overreacting to the provocations of Islamist...
by James Barr
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2008
Greed and intrigue combine explosively in this gripping tale of how the mercurial Lawrence of Arabia changed the Middle East forever.
It was T. E. Lawrence’s classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom that made the Arab Revolt a legend and helped turn the British intelligence officer into the mythical...
ISIS
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new...
A Choice of Enemies
America Confronts the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
It is in the Middle East that the U.S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. The history of the U.S. in the Middle East, then, becomes an especially revealing mirror on America's view of its role in the wider world.
In this wise,...
by Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
A brilliant narrative history tracing today’s troubles back to the grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States.
Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are...
A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914–1948
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
“A provocative history . . . helps us to understand why the Arab spring is so important and valuable.”—David Ignatius, National Interest
In the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle...