Middle East category: 7830 books
by Philip Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Ebook edition of Philip Marsden’s classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of...
Jews in an Arab Land
Libya, 1835–1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Internationally renowned scholar Renzo De Felice’s pioneering study of the Jews of Libya is, in many ways, a microcosm of the major sources of conflict in the modern Middle East. This is the first English translation of Ebrei in un paese arabo, originally published by Il Mulino, Bologna, in 1978.The...
A Shattered Peace
Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
For more than half a century, it has been widely recognized that the Treaty of Versailles created the circumstances that led inevitably to World War II. Less acknowledged and understood is the treaty’s profound impact on many other parts of the world—an impact that echoes to this day in the Middle...
Spies of No Country
Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
**“Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing.” —The New York Times Book Review
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff—but...
by Sandra Mackey
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
How the recent history of Lebanon provides insight into the many trials currently facing the larger Arab community.
It is crucial to the interests of the West to grasp the complexities of the Arab world. In this clear, concise volume, Sandra Mackey provides a unique view of this tortured and...
Israel and Hizbollah
An asymmetric conflict in historical and comparative perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book examines the local and international dynamics and strategies that have come to define the often violent relationship between Israel and Lebanon.
Since the end of the Cold War, academic debate over the nature of war in the contemporary world has focused upon the asymmetric nature of...
Parting the Desert
The Creation of the Suez Canal
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.
The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French...
Commander of the Faithful
The Life and Times of Emir Abd el-Kader (1808-1883)
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"... One of those dazzling biographies that informs our modern life."—Susan Eisenhower, Chairman of the Eisenhower Group, author of Mrs. Ike “Today more than ever, Muslims and non-Muslims alike need to be reminded of the courage, compassion and intellect of Emir Abd el-Kader… Abd el-Kader’s...
Aaronsohn's Maps
The Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at age five, as a young man Aaronsohn was a rugged adventurer who became convinced during years of solo explorations that water should govern the region's...
by Ron David
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Arabs & Israel For Beginners covers the Middle East from ancient times to the present, tells the truth in plain English, and is one of the few non-scholarly books that is relentlessly fair to both Jews and Arabs. If you want to continue to believe fairy tales about Arabs in Israel, don’t touch...
No-One Land: Israel/Palestine 2000-2002
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
A Guide through Israel's No-One Land: Michael Winship "Where is the balance between wisdom and force?" I've thought of that question several times over the last few days, as accusations and counteraccusations fly over Israel's May 31 fatal commando operation against the flotilla of humanitarian aid ships...
by Sandra Mackey
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
With a new introduction by the author, a seminal study of Lebanon’s past, present, and future.
With the West’s economic and security interests increasingly at stake in the Middle East, it is impossible to ignore Lebanon—a nation in all ways divided and tormented by the interplay between...
The Angel
The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
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A gripping feat of reportage that exposes—for the first time in English—the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official...
by Robert Olson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The last quarter of the nineteenth century was crucial for the development of Kurdish nationalism. It coincided with the reign of Abdulhamid II (1876-1909), who emphasized Pan-Islamic policies in order to strengthen the Ottoman Empire against European and Russian imperialism, The Pan-Islamic doctrines...