Middle East category: 7830 books
The Israeli Solution
A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
**A landmark manifesto issuing a bold call for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
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The reigning consensus in elite and academic circles is that the United States must seek to resolve the Palestinians' conflict with Israel by implementing the so-called two-state solution. Establishing...
A World of Trouble
The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
A spellbinding narrative account of America in the Middle East that "reads almost like a thriller" (The Economist)
The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw...
Making the Arab World
Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle East
In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country’s first democratically elected president—Mohamed...
by Melissa Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
The What Every American Should Know series returns with a timely guide to the region Americans need to understand the most (and know the least)
The latest edition of Melissa Rossi's popular What Every American Should Know series gives a crash course on one of the most complex and important...
The Missing Peace
The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
"The definitive and gripping account of the sometimes exhilarating, often tortured twists and turns in the Middle East peace process, viewed from the front row by one of its major players."--Bill Clinton
The Missing Peace, published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside...
Middle East Perspectives
From Lebanon (1968–1988)
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Take a journey through the Middle East, examining the dynamics that made it a lightning rod for political controversy, religious dissension, and violence between 1968 and 1988.
Born in Egypt and educated there and in Beirut, Lebanon, author Bassil A. Mardelli has a unique perspective on the...
by Jack O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
A CIA station chief, later Jordan's lawyer in Washington, reveals the secret history of a lost peace.
Jack O'Connell possessed an uncanny ability to be at the center of things. On his arrival in Jordan in 1958, he unraveled a coup aimed at the young King Hussein, who would become America's...
by Michael B. Oren
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
“Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek
This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive history of America’s involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, “If...
Dispatches from the Arab Spring
Understanding the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Arab Spring unleashed forces of liberation and social justice that swept across North Africa and the Middle East with unprecedented speed, ferocity, and excitement. Although the future of the democratic uprisings against oppressive authoritarian regimes remains uncertain in many places, the revolutionary...
History and Prophecy of the Middle East
What Bible prophecy reveals for the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The next time you read about peace in the Middle East, consider the facts: For over 4,000 years, the Middle East has been fraught with cultural, political and religious violence. Much of this history is recorded in the history book almost no one relies on the Holy Bible. And what makes the Bible so...
by Christopher Catherwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred centuries for the...
by Chas Freeman, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Chas W. Freeman Jr. is one of America's most brilliant and experienced diplomats and an outspoken advocate of diplomacy and other measures short of war to address international problems. In America's Continuing Misadventures in the Middle East, Freeman builds upon an earlier volume on Washington's...
American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 194675
From Orientalism to Professionalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This book examines the careers of 53 area experts in the US State Department’s Middle East bureau during the Cold War. Known as Arabists or Middle East hands, they were very different in background, education, and policy outlook from their predecessors, the Orientalists. A highly competitive selection...
The Lingering Conflict
Israel, The Arabs, and the Middle East 19482012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
In The Lingering Conflict Itamar Rabinovich, a former chief negotiator for Israel, provides unique and authoritative insight into the prospects for genuine peace in the Middle East. His presentation includes a detailed insider account of the peace processes of 199296 and a frank dissection of the...