Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age, Paperback - R. Stephen Humphreys

DescriptionMiddle Easterners today struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recen...

The revolutionary year of 1958 epitomizes the height of the social uprisings, military coups, and civil wars that erupted across the Middle East an...

A blistering account from the acclaimed author of The Unravelling, which traces the threads of violence that have scorched the Middle East for decades

DescriptionHow socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn...

Examining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as successful counter-revolutio...

In 2003, the author arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. In this book, she unravels th...

A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this ...

A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's...

DescriptionWashington has poured billions into Israel's economy and military and, since 1967, Israel has undertaken innumerable operations on Washi...

The silent and continuous erosion trickling from the top of mountains, via glaciers, tropical forests, sand dunes, icefields of Patagonia, European...

The first full-length, comparative study of the experience and memory of British and Dominion soldiers who fought in the First World War's 'sidesho...

Looking at how French colonial rule invented the concept of the Maghreb, carving it out as something distinct from sub-Saharan African and the Midd...

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Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.Author(s): Kim GhattasNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 33Cover type: PaperbackRedesco...

The latest information from a range of disciplines is applied to the story of the ancient civilisations of the Middle East, from the Neolithic peri...

Muslim women have been stereotyped by Western academia as oppressed and voiceless. This volume problematizes this Western academic representation. ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn The Transparent Cabal, Stephen J. Sniegoski, Ph.D., provides the key to understanding "neoconservatism, " its meaning, and its influe...

Middle Power in the Middle East provides an overview of the challenges Canada has faced in its foreign and defence policy toward the Middle East.Pu...

A paradigm-shifting history that reveals how the early Christian churches in the East helped to shape the Asia and the Christianity we know todayPu...

This book examines the phenomenon of 'grand corruption' in Kuwait and the pattern in the wider region. It will be a valuable resource for academics...

This expanded second edition of the successful The Middle East Unveiled, updates the valuable cultural and practical information contained in the b...

A path-breaking history of how the United States superseded Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle East, with urgent lessons for the p...

Reducere. "Jenkins is one of America's top religious scholars." --Forbes magazineThe Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins offers a revolutionary vi...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Sergio CoppolaNumber of pages: 178Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 237 x 236 x 19Cover type: HardbackRe...

From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration The Age of Jihad charts the tur...

Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders--but not because of what it ...

Reducere. With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted th...

Can you hear it, the hiss of water wiggling its way out into the world uncaptured, wasted, wanton? British-Egyptian Sabrina Mahfouz grew up with am...

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Reducere. Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dro...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Charles (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, USA) ThepautNumber of pages: 272Collection: ...

A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC's long-serving correspondent in the region.Publisher: Pan M...

Reducere. Across centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly a...

Publisher: RANDAuthor(s): Ami CarpenterIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 154Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 176 x 253 x...

A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam to the decline of nomads in the twentieth century. This offers a viv...

The essays contained in this volume illustrate the work of Fr. James A. Weisheipl, whose writing and teaching have resulted in important additions ...

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By analyzing the presidential foreign policy rhetoric of Dwight D. Eisenhower surrounding the Middle East, author Randall Fowler makes a timely arg...

Economist James Rauch evaluates the socioeconomic trajectories of groups of Middle Eastern States in relation to each other and to countries with s...

Venturing out of the laboratory into the wild, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially ...

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This book is based on papers presented at the conference. However, it is not a typical publication of academic conference proceedings because the t...