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In From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times, author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, has drawn on his decade in the Middle East to produce the most trenchant, vivid, and thought-provoking book yet on the region. No issue in international politics has been more hotly debated than the Arab-Israeli conflict. And no reporter has illuminated both the conflict and the rhythms of life in the Middle East with more immediacy and brilliance...
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In his fascinating, terrifying and often very funny book, James Hider takes his doubts about religious beliefs straight into the dark heart of the world's holy wars-from Israel to Gaza to Iraq-the birthplace that spawned so many faiths-and then back to Jerusalem. From hardcore Zionist settlers still fighting ancient Biblical battles in the hills of the West Bank to Shiite death squads roaming the lawless streets of Iraq in the aftermath of Saddam;...
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An Oxford-educated scholar of the Middle East and a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Hugh Pope lived and worked in two dozen countries throughout the region. Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Burton and Lawrence of Arabia, Hugh Pope's explorations of the people, politics, religion, and culture of Islamic nations shows there is no such thing as a monolithic "Muslim World." His probing and often perilous journeys-at...
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Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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467 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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English
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For the past forty years the images flashing across our television screens from the Middle East have provoked anger, outrage and, sometimes, military action from the international community. But the stories behind them were rarely understood. In 2011 the revolutions of the Arab Spring changed everything. Now, the handful of dictators who ruled brutally over hundreds of millions of people - Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi and...
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2004
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256 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The author relates his experiences in Iraq during the 2003 war, discussing the effects of the war on the ordinary citizens of Baghdad and offering his analysis of the issues confronting the region, now and in the future.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
©1990
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xii, 228 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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A chronicle of travels in the Middle East focuses on the modern expatriate, displaced Westerners who have discovered their niches in and around the Persian Gulf amid a political climate of fear.
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Oneworld Publications Lt
Pub. Date
2016.
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xiii, 672 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Describes how the failure of the "Arab Spring" lead to religious politics, sectarian war, bloody counter-revolutions, and brutal Islamic extremism, placing the blame for these modern state-building disasters on Western intervention.
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Academica Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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6, 390 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"This is the untold story of the origins, political awakening, and rise of what the United States and its allies call the Haqqani Network, and what the Haqqani family calls the Haqqani Mujahideen. The author lived with the Haqqanis as a young reporter for the New York Times in the 1980s, in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, when they were America's allies in the Afghan-Soviet war. After 9/11, the network became America's enemy. This book tells...
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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
c2009
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xxi, 551 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Inside the Revolution" takes you inside the winner-take-all battle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the people of the Middle East with never-before-seen profiles of the Radicals, the Reformers and the Revivalists, explaining the implications of each movement and the importance of each leader--not only through the lenses of politics and economics but through the third lens of Scripture as well.
14) The Middle East
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CQ Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
10th ed.
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x, 593 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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358 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades-despite never achieving the far-reaching aims of its proponents-and how it's finally time to forge a new path forward. "Must reading-by someone who saw it first-hand--for all interested in America's foreign policy and its place in the world." -Robin Wright Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments...
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