Middle East category: 7830 books
Storm from the East
The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
America’s engagement with the Arab world stretches back far beyond the Iraq wars. According to Milton Viorst, the current conflict is simply the latest round in a 1,400-year struggle between Christianity and Islam, in which the United States became a participant only in the last century.
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Idols in the East
European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East,...
Desert Ramblings
Short, humorous essays on travel in Egypt, the Middle East and Elsewhere in the 1970s by a roving foreign news correspondent.
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Former United Press International reporter Michael S. Barrett spent several years in the Middle East and Europe as a foreign correspondent and editor during the mid-1970s. While reporting daily on affairs of state, political trends and a myriad of socioeconomic events and activities, he also produced...
by Jennifer Steil
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
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"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa Rica and prevailed? Hadn’t I survived fainting in a San José brothel? Hadn’t...
Operation Ajax
The Story of the CIA Coup that Remade the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2020
Graphic true-life spy thriller about the CIA mission that overthrew Iran’s democracy
The year is 1953. As the value of oil skyrockets, global power brokers begin to take interest in the political regimes of the Middle East. British agents have controlled Iranian oil exports for a generation,...
Brokers of Deceit
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
**Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments**
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on...
A Woman in Arabia
The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog
Gertrude...
No god but God (Updated Edition)
The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
**A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer
FINALIST FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD**
In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins and evolution of the...
Spies Against Armageddon -- Inside Israel's Secret Wars
Updated & Revised
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Shedding light on tumultuous events in Syria, Iran, and the entire Middle East, SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON: INSIDE ISRAEL'S SECRET WARS covers more ground than any other book about modern-day Israel. Its 25 action-packed chapters and detailed endnotes are filled with colorful characters, who risk their...
The Balfour Declaration
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue...
Peace in the Middle East
The Challenge for Israel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Specialists from Israel, Europe and the US examine the implications of peace for Israel. How would it affect the country's political and economic systems and its national security, and what would peace mean for its regional and international standing and its relations with world Jewry?
Our Separate Ways
The Struggle for the Future of the U.S.Israel Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The future of the relationship between Israel and America is deeply uncertain: the current political leadership of both countries is hostile to the other, there is no longer a sense of shared strategic focus, and demographic changes are forcing the countries further apart with every passing year....
Destination Jerusalem
Isis, “convert or Die,” Christian Persecution and Preparing for the Days Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
A Christian refugee sobs, Jesus, forgive them! after fleeing the deadly rampage of Islamic State fighters. A Yazidi mother tells of the horrific fate her late son suffered at the hands of these marauding Muslim terrorists. An Israeli woman recounts how Hamas jihadists rose like zombies from the beach...
The Great War for Civilisation
The Conquest of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution;...