Middle East category: 7830 books
Desert Queen
Scandalous Women, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
DESERT QUEEN
In this wonderful short book author, Anna Myers looks at the colorful life of the extraordinary bohemian adventuress Lady Hester Stanhope.
Lady Hester lived in England until the age of about 33 when she set off traveling and fell in love with the Middle East....
by Amin Maalouf
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. Under Saladin, an unstoppable Muslim army inspired by prophets and poets finally succeeded...
Children of Jihad
A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face to face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth? and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype.
In 2004, Jared Cohen embarked on the first of a series of incredible journeys to the...
The Terror Years
From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
With the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken,...
Spies, Scandals, and Sultans
Istanbul in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Spies, Scandals, and Sultans is the first English translation of a fascinating and acidly critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid. This is the first time that the text, written by an Egyptian journalist and politician, has been available since...
The Qur'an
A Chronological Modern English Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
I wrote this book because I want to help people understand Islam. This is not an attempt to spread a religion or to denigrate it. I offer it as a gift to anyone seeking to bridge the gap in their understanding of Islam. In the end, education and understanding—and acceptance of other cultures—will...
Subalterns and Social Protest
History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical...
Paradise Divided
A Portait of Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
This timely portrait of Lebanon exposes the fault lines that underlie the current crisis in the Middle East, and charts the country’s attempts to rebuild a fragile peace after its long civil war and recent conflict with Israel. Part reportage, part travel narrative, Paradise Divided chronicles the...
by Bernard Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1994
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The...
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Robert A. Fernea
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
In the ten years since Anchor first published Elizabeth and Robert Fernea's award-winning The Arab World: Personal Encounters, vast political and economic shifts have taken place: the end of the Iran/Iraq War and the Lebanese civil war; the outbreak of the Gulf War; the historic 1993 peace accords...
Hamas, Popular Support and War in the Middle East
Insurgency in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This book offers a new understanding of the nature of power-seeking insurgent groups by empirically examining the use of violence by Hamas in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
Though Hamas has learned to ride the tides of popular support, it remains suspended between its quest to achieve the...
The New Geopolitics of Terror
Demons and Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The New Geopolitics of Terror examines the impact of global reach terror on states.
This book surveys the current crises and tensions in the Middle East, focussing primarily on the upheavals in Syria and Iraq, and the interaction between groups, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS state actors and Western...
Rethinking Peacebuilding
The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace.
Linking peace and justice has sparked lively debates about the dilemmas and trade-offs in several contemporary peace processes. Despite the fact that justice and peace are...
Middle East and North African Immigrants in Europe
Current Impact; Local and National Responses
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Fourteen specialists from across the European Union discuss current issues regarding Middle Eastern and North African immigrants in Europe, focusing on topics such as immigration legislation, assimilation, integration, multiculturalism, community formation, citizenship, political participation, and...