Middle East category: 7830 books
Islamist Politics in the Middle East
Movements and Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
For over three decades, Islamist politics, or political Islam, has been one of the most dynamic and contentious political forces in the Middle East. Although there is broad consensus on the importance of political Islam, there is far less agreement on its character, the reasons for Islamist’s success,...
by Zayde Antrim
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Mapping the Middle East explores the many ways people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus River Valleys over the past millennium. By analyzing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a region...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Part of our value-added professional format series, this ebook includes the Problems in Desert Warfare and Troop Construction in the Middle East Marine Corps Field Manuals.
Problems in Desert Warfare provides an overview of the problems encountered in desert warfare and some of their solutions....
by James Brian McNabb
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The Middle East has been—and will continue to be—a major influence on policy around the globe. This work reviews the impact of past epochs on the modern Middle East and analyzes key military events that contributed to forming the region and its people. By helping readers recognize historical patterns...
More Than a Doctrine
The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Given on January 5, 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine Address forever changed America’s relationship with the Middle East. In the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, President Dwight D. Eisenhower boldly declared that the United States would henceforth serve as the region’s “protector of freedom” against...
Coming of Age in The Middle East
The Middle East mirrored through the eyes of a daredevil traveller
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Trevor Mostyn's mother was the novelist Ann Mary Fielding, the descendant of Henry Fielding. His father's family, the Mostyn baronets, decamped from North Wales to 'White mischief' Kenya. Trevor's early childhood was spent with his family in a rondhovel on a remote Rhodesian tobacco farm with an otherwise...
by Michael Provence
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a charged and transformative time of unrest. Insurgent leaders, trained in Ottoman military tactics and with...
Tea with Hezbollah
Sitting at the Enemies Table Our Journey Through the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Is it really possible to love one’s enemies?
That’s the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East during the summer of 2008. It was a trip that began in Egypt, passed beneath the steel and glass high rises of Saudi Arabia, then...
Eclipse of the Sunnis
Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Hundreds of thousands of Sunni Muslims displaced or exiled by the conflict in Iraq have spread across the Middle East, unbalancing that sensitive region. From Amman to Beirut and Damascus, Deborah Amos follows the impact of one of the great migrations of modern times.
The history of the Middle...
Castles Made of Sand
A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and Intervention in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
"Extensively researched—with detailed source notes and an expansive bibliography—and cogently argued, Gerolymatos's study of diplomacy by espionage is timely and instructive." - Publishers Weekly
With roots in imperialism and the nineteenth-century mindset of the "Great Game,"...
From Souk to Souk
Travels Through the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
Robin Ratchford reflects on a series of unforgettable experiences across the Middle East. This innovative account of his colourful and atmospheric journeys shows us why this region has always caught the imagination of those who visit. From the historic bazaar of Aleppo in Syria, to the street markets...
Support Any Friend
Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
At the Cold War's height, John F. Kennedy set precedents that continue to shape America's encounter with the Middle East. Kennedy was the first president to make a major arms sale to Israel, the only president to push hard to deny Israel the atomic bomb, and the last president to reach out to the...
America's Great Game
The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The Central Intelligence Agency's reputation in the Middle East today has been marred by waterboarding and drone strikes, yet in its earliest years the agency was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals how three...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.The recent declassification of federal records for the decade of the 1950s has generated a total reappraisal of Eisenhower as an activist president and has prompted renewed interest in Eisenhower's...