Middle East

In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rh...

Ingrid Carlberg ; With An Introduction By Kofi A. Annan ; Translated From The Swedish By Ebba Segerberg. Originally Published By Norstedts, Stockholm In 201...

1. Introduction -- Source Material -- Importance Of Israel -- Israel's Strategic Location -- Geography Of Palestine -- History Divisions -- 2. Patriarchal B...

In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time wh...

The First Volume In A New Series That Tells The Stories Of All Peoples, Connecting Historical Events From Europe To The Middle East To The Far Coast Of Chin...

Positioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human ...

Thou Shalt Innovate Profiles Wondrous Israeli Innovations That Are Collectively Changing The Lives Of Billions Of People Around The World And Explores Why I...

No Religion In The Modern World Is As Feared And Misunderstood As Islam. It Haunts The Popular Imagination As An Extreme Faith That Promotes Terrorism, Auth...

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times B...

The Russo-turkish War Was One Of The Most Decisive Conflicts Of The 18th Century. In This Book, Brian Davies Offers A Thorough Survey Of The War And Explain...

Beginning with the brutal murder of her husband before her eyes, Leah Rabin recounts in clear-sighted detail the events of her forty-eight years with Rabin...

Douglas Little exposes the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines United States policy toward the Middle East fro...

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. I...

When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelle...

"On the walls of buildings . . . on leather and papyrus, Israelites living under the monarchy (1000-587 B.C.E.) penned or scratched texts ranging from food...

"How many are they?" The reply came in the finest traditions of accurate situation reporting, "f***ing hundreds of them!" Mirbat, South Oman, July 19, 1972...

"Pulitzer prize winner Kai Bird's memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating ...

Israel's next great crisis may come not with the Palestinians or Iran but with young American Jews A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. ...

In This Magisterial History Of Lebanon, From The End Of Ottoman Rule To The Hizbullah And Hamas Wars Of Today, David Hirst Charts The Intricate Interplay Be...

a los Angeles Times And economist Best Book Of The Yearwith A New Prefacethe Grandson Of An Eminent Ayatollah And The Son Of An Iranian Diplomat, Journali...

From The Publisher: The City Of Dubai, One Of The Seven United Arab Emirates, Is Everything The Arab World Isn't: A Freewheeling Capitalist Oasis Where The ...

An Immersive, Sweeping Account Of The Rise And Fall Of Iran's Glamorous Pahlavi Dynasty, Written With The Cooperation Of The Late Shah's Widow, Empress Fara...

A Cairo-raised daughter of a high-ranking Egyptian military officer describes how she was raised to hate Americans and Jewish people and submit to dictators...

The author of Parliament of Whores takes a look at freedom around the world, discussing the Gorbachev-Reagan summit, the Berlin Wall, elections in Paraguay ...

This Text Focuses On A Selection Of Case-studies Drawn From Events In The Habsburg, Romanov And Ottoman Empires, As Well As The Nation-states That Arose Fro...

At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible...

​"Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruel...

Retraces Two Critical Centuries Of Middle Eastern History, Presents An Intriguing Chronicle Of The Crusades, And Offers Insights Into The Forces That Shape ...

“Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek The Washington Post - Robert Kagan Today, the conventio...

A groundbreaking, ambitious, and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today My Prom...

For Many Centuries, The World Of Islam Was In The Forefront Of Human Achievement - The Foremost Military And Economic Power In The World, The Leader In The ...

Yaroslav Trofimov. Includes Index.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies Religious GroupsIslamic

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the ...

Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

PRESIDENT CARTER'S COURAGEOUS ASSESSMENT OF WHAT MUST BE DONE TO BRING PERMANENT PEACE TO ISRAEL WITH DIGNITY AND JUSTICE TO PALESTINECategories: Politics &...

Discusses The Latest Conflict Between Israel And The Palestinians And Argues That The International Community Must Pressure Israel To Resolve Their Issues W...

In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christ...

H.r. Mcmaster. Originally Published: New York: Harpercollins, 1997. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 419-434) And Index.Categories: Politics & So...

This work is totally original; indeed, it pioneers a new field. . . . A remarkable account of a dimension of war that is much neglected. . . . It is deeply...

This is an account of the turbulent saga of the only Arab state that has a nominal Christian majority. Packed with rival religious sects, feudal chieftain...

The Lebanese Civil War of 1975-76 caused 80,000 dead and totally split the country along factional lines. An estimated 50 different militias came into exist...

An Extraordinary Memoir From An Iranian Journalist In Exile About Leaving Her Country, Challenging Tradition, And Sparking An Online Movement Against Compul...

Chronicles the history of America's secret counterterrorist unit, tells how members are recruited and trained, and explains its key role in the Iran hostage...

Integrating Interviews With Individuals Ranging From Senior Policymakers To Frontline Soldiers, A Look At The Persian Gulf War Shows How The Conflict Transf...

Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardIssued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committe...

Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman and Ma...

In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are...

Israel’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s first prime minister and its founding father. Shimon Peres was in...