Trefferliste "Middle East" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Adam Mestyan

Modern Arab Kingship

How the "recycling" of the Ottoman Empire's uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle EastIn this groundbreaking book, Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab …

Noa Schonmann

Israel's Phantom Pact

For Israel, a small state surrounded by what it perceives as hostile neighbours, foreign policy has been stamped as the key to its survival. By embarking on what is now called Israel's 'Periphery Pact' in…

Charles H Dyer, Stanley Ellisen

Who Owns the Land?

Who Owns the Land? That's the question being asked in homes and on college campuses all over the world. There are accusations. Anger. And pain. Are the Israelis occupiers and oppressors? What is the histo…

Yossef Rapoport

Becoming Arab

"How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities, and formed village clans. During the later Middle Ages, peasants in Egypt and Greater Syria came to view themselves as mem…

Billie Jeanne Brownlee, Maziyar Ghiabi

States Without People

States Without People argues that the major consequence of the failed revolts and civil wars in the Middle East has been the emergence of a culture of the right.

Fawaz A. Gerges

The Great Betrayal

How the Middle East can achieve political change and social progressThe Middle East is in upheaval: a widening chasm between state and society, the failure of governing elites to address citizens' genuine…

Open Government and Freedom of Information

The book examines the state of Open Government in Asia. Drawing on thirteen country case studies and one regional study, it analyses the application of Freedom of Information methods and assesses their im…

Agatha Christie

Come, Tell Me How You Live

Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. I…

David Fromkin

A Peace to End All Peace

The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts - including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenge…

Jonathan Parry

Promised Lands

A major history of the British Empire's early involvement in the Middle EastNapoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Empir…

Paulina Banas

Visualizing Egypt

"Bonaparte's short-lived 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel, and improvements in printing technology in nineteenth-century France and Britain, a new publishing business dedicated to …

Daniel Sobelman

Axis of Resistance

An in-depth analysis of the primary conflicts animating the contemporary struggle over the regional order of the Middle East.

Catherine Nixon Cooke

Dodgers to Damascus

An adventure-driven story that helps us understand the Middle East and Syria

Daniel Sobelman

Axis of Resistance

An in-depth analysis of the primary conflicts animating the contemporary struggle over the regional order of the Middle East.

S. O. D.

Live At Budokan

Jerry "Boogie" McCain

Tough Stuff 1953 - 1962

Beeinflusst von Sonny Boy Williamson und Little Walter, war Jerry McCain einer der größten Blues-Mundharmonikaspieler. Aufgrund seiner Popularität, nahm er viele Aufnahmen auf und hatte mehrere regionale …

Susan N. Platt

Around the World in Twenty-Five Years

This book selects from my writings on artists and exhibitions in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. It is organized by types of exhibitions and location, and includes themes of ecology, resi…

Sandy Tolan

The Lemon Tree (Young Readers' Edition)

In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its bac…

A. James Hammerton

Love, Class and Empire

Focusing on the experiences of two British expatriate families in Iran and Iraq, this study explores the impact of rapid social mobility in the late imperial era. Drawing on a wealth of personal letters a…