Israel category: 987 books
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: from Balfour Promise to Bush Declaration
The Complications and the Road for a Lasting Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
In the coming five to ten years, the highest number of key global security challenges is likely to be concentrated in the Middle East, or be related to it. And the traditional most significant challenge in the Middle East is the Arab-Israeli conflict and its core, the dispute between Israelis and...
Mike's Place
A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
There's a rule at Mike's Place: never, ever talk politics or religion. At this blues bar on the Tel Aviv beachfront, an international cast of characters mingles with the locals, and everyone is welcome to grab a beer and forget the conflict outside. At least, that's the story Jack and Joshua want...
by Gadi Taub
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
by Nick Reynold
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This book provides an in-depth survey of Britain’s Mandate in Palestine, an issue crucial to understanding the continuing atmosphere of mistrust and violence in the region that continues to the present.
At the conclusion of the First World War (1914–18), the League of Nations awarded a...
Understanding the Volatile and Dangerous Middle East
A Comprehensive Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The purpose of Understanding the Volatile and Dangerous Middle East is to assist the general public to obtain a deeper comprehension of this bewildering region. Middle East issues can become muddled and confusing, particularly since the mainstream news media, editorials, and popular literature on...
The Second Palestinian Intifada
Civil Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Palestinian civilians engaged in numerous acts of unarmed resistance during the second intifada. However, these attempts in using non-violent strategies were frequently overshadowed by the armed tactics of militant groups. Drawing from extensive interviews, surveys, and observations in the West Bank,...
Son of Yahweh
The Gospels As Novels
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Anyone who has ever spent time in a Christian church knows that the gospels are never read as a series of ordered events forming a narrative whole. Instead they are read with dogged incoherence, focusing on tiny snippets taken out of context. The birth stories of Matthew and Luke are emphasized at Christmas;...
Palestina
Storia di un conflitto infinito
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Richard J. Samuelson analizza le vicende politiche, storiche e sociali della Palestina dalla fine dell’800 ai giorni nostri.
La questione palestinese rappresenta a tutt’oggi una ferita dolorosamente aperta, un rebus geopolitico complesso e, probabilmente, inestricabile.
Da un lato...
Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt
Literature, culture, and empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt, from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century, and colonialism. While it has been widely noted that such a relationship exists, the nature and impact of this dynamic is often overlooked. Taking a...
by Jeffrey Neil Simon
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
A Stand-Up Comedian's Middle East Travel Journal.
Jeffrey Simon, stand-up comedian and insurance salesman, hated what he was doing, and despised what his job was doing to him. When his wife walked into his office and said, "Let's sell all our things and go live on a Kibbutz for awhile," he...
Out of Jordan
A Sabra in the Peace Corps Tells Her Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A riveting memoir of the first Israeli-born Jewish American to be sent as a Peace Corps volunteer to a closed Arab society.
A good memoir is a survivor’s tale-the story of a person who has faced obstacles and made it through well enough to tell it. Dalya Cohen-Mor, a Sabra-born American woman,...
When the Birds Stopped Singing
Life in Ramallah Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to keep her...
by Jack Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Perhaps no other city has been spoken of as often or as passionately as Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Book of Quotations brings together the kaleidoscopic impressions and perspectives of a representative group of those who have responded to the wonder of the Holy City from the biblical period to the present:...
The War of 1948
Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The 1948 War is remembered in this special volume, including aspects of Israeli-Jewish memory and historical narratives of 1948 and representations of Israeli-Palestinian memory of that cataclysmic event and its consequences. The contributors map and analyze a range of perspectives of the 1948 War...