Middle East category: 7830 books
Preparing the Mothers of Tomorrow
Education and Islam in Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
From the late nineteenth century onward, men and women throughout the Middle East discussed, debated, and negotiated the roles of young girls and women in producing modern nations. In Palestine, girls' education was pivotal to discussions about motherhood. Their education was seen as having the potential...
Travel Tales Monthly
No 7 JAN 2015: Women Traveling Alone—Safety & Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Monthly bookazine Issue No. 7 for January 2015 contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of about 10,000 travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel...
by Maryam Rajavi
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
This manuscript contains delivered keynote speech by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. On June 30, 2018, the Iranian Resistance’s grand gathering was held in Villepinte, near Paris, France. Delegations from various countries including prominent...
by Raihan Ismail
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
The Saudi "ulama" are known for their strong opposition to Shi'a theology, Shi'a communities in Saudi Arabia, and external Shi'a influences such as Iran and Hezbollah. Their potent hostility, combined with the influence of the 'ulama' within the Saudi state and the Muslim world, has led some commentators...
Al Rashid Mosque
Building Canadian Muslim Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Front Flap: Forty years ago, as a young scholar in Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta, Al Rashid’s Muslims welcomed my queries, tolerated my ignorance, and joyfully opened their homes and their hearts. —Earle H. Waugh Back Flap: Earle H. Waugh has studied Islam in Canada and the Middle...
by P. E. Caquet
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book focuses on the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41, closely examining the first instance of coordinated Western intervention in the Middle East during the modern era. Readers can explore topics such as how culture, domestic politics, and ideology shaped diplomacy in this landmark crisis, and the importance...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
This book provides everything the reader needs to know about the Iraq War, from the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, through the U.S. troop surge in 2007, to the rise of the Islamic State. It offers insight into the war through the events, organizations, and people who have had a major...
Al Qaeda's Global Crisis
The Islamic State, Takfir and the Genocide of Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This book focuses on the crises facing Al Qaeda and how the mass killing of Muslims is challenging its credibility as a leader among Islamist jihadist organizations.
The book argues that these crises are directly related to Al Qaeda’s affiliation with the extreme violence employed against...
Out of Nowhere
The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In mid-2012 the previously almost forgotten Syrian Kurds suddenly emerged as a potential game-changer in the country's civil war when in an attempt to consolidate its increasingly desperate position the Assad government abruptly withdrew its troops from the major Kurdish areas in Syria. The Kurds...
Saddam's Word
Political Discourse in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2002
This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. By analyzing political terms, concepts, and idioms as disseminated through the official Iraqi mouthpieces, author Ofra Bengio...
My honeymoon in Tehran
1977: view from the kitchen sink
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
n 1977 I spent the summer in Tehran, visiting my in-laws, technically our honeymoon. I was a very young 19, and had absolutely no idea how different life in the Middle East was and is to life in the west. This is my experience with one ordinary family, living ordinary lives, and is a snapshot of a city before revolution.
Yusif Sayigh
Arab Economist and Palestinian Patriot: A Fractured Life Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
An acclaimed economist and lifelong Palestinian nationalist Yusif Sayigh (1916-2004) came of age at a time of immense political change in the Middle East. Born in al-Bassa, near Acre in northern Palestine, he was witness to the events that led to the loss of Palestine andhis memoir therefore constitutes...
by N. Coulson
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Lawyers, according to Edmund Burke, are bad historians. He was referring to an unwillingness, rather than an inaptitude, on the part of early nineteenth-century English lawyers to concern themselves with the past: for contemporary jurisprudence was a pure and isolated science wherein law appeared...
Words and Stones
The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when they speak, and the social meanings such choices produce,...