Garnet Publishing Uk Ltd: 63 books
by Jamal Wakim
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In this book, Dr. Jamal Wakim argues that the success or failure of Syria's policies is directly linked to the degree to which these policies accord with those of Iraq, Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and that it has been subject throughout its history to competition between the forces occupying the...
Islam in the British Broadsheets
The Impact of Orientalism on Representations of Islam in the British Press
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
From the late Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie, to the extremism of the Taliban and the mass murder of the September 11th attacks, the image of Islam as a violent and anti-Western faith has featured dominantly in the global mass media. In this book, Elzain Elgamri sets out to refute...
Building Arafat's Police
The Politics of International Police Assistance in the Palestinian Territories After the Oslo Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This book examines the role of international donors in creating and reforming the Palestinian police and security forces, beginning in the early aftermath of the Oslo Accords to the outbreak of the second Intifada, which brought most police reform efforts to a standstill. The author explores the challenges...
Naming the Persian Gulf
The Roots of a Political Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Reference to either the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf is a source of heavy controversy and tension between Iranians and Arabs, with diplomatic repercussions. The nomenclature is an important element of strategic uncertainty in the region. Kourosh Ahmadi reviews the issue from an Iranian perspective...
Slavery and Manumission
British Policy in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in the First Half of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
I am a free-born woman, and not a slave of anyone' , Manuy bint Khalfan, Speaking to a British Agency in Sharjah on 24th October 1938. Manuy bint Khalfan was a female slave who was sold and mortgaged several times before she finally escaped from her master. This book is dedicated to her memory, and...
by Mohammed Mahfoodh Al-Ardhi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Ibrahim, a freelance journalist from Arabia, has always been deeply aware of his rich Arabian heritage and history but has become disillusioned and disheartened by the seemingly incessant onslaught of Western suspicion, abuse and adverse media attention thrust upon his people. To Ibrahim and his family,...
Khojaly Witness of a war crime
Armenia in the Dock
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
It was one of the worst episodes of the Nagorno-Karabakh war. For months, the townspeople of Khojaly, Azerbaijan, had endured nightly shelling by invading Armenian forces, which gradually surrounded the town. By 25 February 1992 all escape routes had been cut off. Armenian tanks, artillery and troops...