Middle East category: 7830 books
Palestine
The Ottoman Campaigns of 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The campaigns fought by the Ottomans against the British in Palestine are often neglected in accounts of the Great War, yet they are fascinating from the point of view of military history and critically important because of their impact upon the modern Middle East. Edward Erickson's authoritative...
by Abdelwahab Meddeb
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Abdelwahab Meddeb makes an urgent case for an Islamic reformation, located squarely in Western Europe, now home to millions of Muslims, where Christianity and Judaism have come to coexist with secular humanism and positivist law. He is not advocating “moderate” Islam, which he characterizes as...
by Maryam Rajavi
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Tolerant Islam vs. Extremism
This manuscript is a compilation of an article and excerpts from speeches by the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi, a Muslim woman who has led a relentless struggle for freedom in Iran.
She represents a voice against Islamic fundamentalism...
Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry
1948 - 1963
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Based on archival material, this intriguing book examines David Ben-Gurion’s influence on the relationship between the state of Israel, the Zionist Organization and American Jewry between 1948 and 1963 when he served as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. The author discusses how Ben-Gurion...
by Freddy Liebreich
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
This book provides an important shift in the analysis of Britain's policy towards the illegal postwar Jewish immigration into Palestine. It charts the development of Britain's response to Zionist immigration, from the initial sympathy, as embodied in the Balfour Declaration, through attempts at blockade,...
IRAQ: With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916-1917 (includes over 200 photographs)
(THE WEST MEETS THE MIDDLE EAST)
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Baghdad, Basra, the Tigris, minarets, dust storms... Iraq, or as it was known for so long, Mesopotamia. Here is a Highland regiment, fighting the Turks, decades before Americans would fight their own battles among the dunes and the oases.
Defending Israel
A Strategic Plan for Peace and Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Israel is a tiny country. From tip to toe, it stretches 260 miles long but is only 60 miles at its widest point. Since the days of the British mandate, the question of "defensible borders" for the Jewish state has always been problematic. Yet considering the larger picture of what has happened...
by Joseph Spark
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
War is a state of incessant conflict when the legal codes and moral laws that govern interactions in civil society are turned on their heads and momentarily cease to exist.
Since the beginning of recorded history, some of the most atrocious crimes have been committed under the shadow of war...
Merchants of Men
How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multi-Billion Dollar Business
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees a day all along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. The new breed of criminals that controls it has risen out of the political chaos of post-9/11 Western foreign policy and the fiasco of the Arab Spring. These merchants...
Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine
Population, Territory and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Surveillance is always a means to an end, whether that end is influence, management or entitlement. This book examines the several layers of surveillance that control the Palestinian population in Israel and the Occupied Territories, showing how they operate, how well they work, how they are augmented,...
by Dilip Hiro
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1985, this is a comprehensive study of the Middle East's most strategic country, set against the background of the Islamic heritage of Iran and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Dilip Hiro describes the various phases through which the Islamic revolution has passed, gives...
Democracy in Iran
History and the Quest for Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave concern both for the stability of the region and for the safety of the global community. President George W. Bush labeled it part of the "Axis of Evil,"...
Pilgrims of Love
The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
"... will be of interest not only to those concerned with Pakistan and the new Muslim presence in Europe, but also to those interested in an anthropological study of religion." —Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis
Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi...
by Homeland Security Committee
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The report addresses the urgent and growing threat of terrorist travel by Americans to Syria and Iraq. Despite the government’s efforts to control this travel, hundreds of Americans have attempted to reach the conflict zones to join the jihadists. Using numerous briefings, interviews, site visits,...