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2023.
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"Drawing on confidential sources in Mossad--Israel's equivalent to our CIA--Bob and Evyatar, reporters for The Jerusalem Post, tell the ... story behind the most stunning development in the Middle East in recent years: the Abraham Accords, that normalized relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. They show how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar--and diplomacy--to forge a new Middle East, uniting Israel with Sunni...
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As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble-fronted buildings, vast suburbs, and wide highways. In Kuwait Transformed, Farah Al-Nakib connects the city's past and present, from its settlement in 1716 to the twenty-first...
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"Opening the enormous metal gate, the guard suddenly took away my blindfold and asked me, tauntingly, if I would recognize my parents. With my eyes hurting from the strange light and anger in my voice, I assured him that I would. Suddenly I was pushed through the gate and the door was slammed behind me. After more than eight years, here I was, finally, out of jail…"In this haunting account, Shahla Talebi remembers her years as a political prisoner...
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Mohammad Mosaddeq is widely regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran's modern history. Mosaddeq became prime minister of Iran in May 1951 and promptly nationalized its British-controlled oil industry, initiating a bitter confrontation between Iraq and Britain that increasingly undermined Mossaddeq's position. He was finally overthrown in August 1953 in a coup d'etat that was organized and led...
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In her groundbreaking analysis of the origins and evolution of U. S. policy toward the Middle East from 1945 to 1949, Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U. S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U. S. government sources, as well as papers in the H. S. Truman Library, Gendzier...
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Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S. entanglement with the Middle East, and how it catalyzed militant fundamentalist networks that came to perceive the United States as an enemy. Beginning with an introduction on the legacy of Western misconceptions...
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In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power, Professor As`ad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia-questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own interests, seem unwilling to answer.
In this unsparing probe into the history and power structure of the kingdom, Professor AbuKhalil, author of Bin Laden, Islam, and America's...
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#1 The first part of our investigation into the world of the ancient Persians is focused on narrative history. We will cover the origins of the Persians in Central Asia and their subsequent migration into the Iranian plateau. We will look at the rise to power of Cyrus the Great and his methods of conquest and settlement.
#2 The Proto-Iranians were a nomadic tribe that...
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Green Zone Diary: A Diplomat's War Story is a vivid insider's account by a State Department Foreign Service Officer posted in the Middle East during the early 2000s. Centered on Baghdad's Green Zone, Madsen takes us behind the scenes of a war effort with heartwarming and heartbreaking honesty. Different from the military accounts of war, it chronicles the perspective of one civilian, very junior, State Department official whose mundane bureaucratic...
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For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. When U.S. troops entered Afghanistan in the weeks following September 11, 2001, they overthrew the Afghan Taliban regime and sent the terrorists it harbored on the run. But America's initial...
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We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are on the verge of destroying each other. The demographics of one group remain sluggish, while the population of the other has exploded, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this subject, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefitting from...
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#1 The Ottoman Empire was in decline by the time the PERA Palace was founded. The Eastern Question, a conglomeration of territorial disputes, nationalist movements, and international standoffs, had roiled the empire for decades.
#2 In 1908, the Ottoman Empire was forced to accept a constitutional monarchy and restore the imperial parliament. The Unionists were...
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This work of nonfiction delves into the historical context of the Armenian Genocide to examine the nature of the events that occurred in the Ottoman Empire shortly after the dawn of the 20th century. The main purpose of this study is to present the issue in question—that is, the Armenian Genocide—under new prospects, using a different approach in the analysis of the events and factual material related to the Great Crime, with an emphasis on the...
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Get the Summary of Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri's They Called Me a Lioness in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "They Called Me a Lioness" is a memoir by Ahed Tamimi, chronicling her life in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, under the shadow of the Israeli settlement Halamish. The book details the history of the Palestinian struggle against Zionist ambitions and the establishment of Israel, which led to the displacement...
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Even though war has swirled near and occasionally into El-Kfeir many times in the past, you'd think this ancient Lebanese village has remained relatively untouched by the outside world. However, a biblical aura remains and the honey-combs the figs, plumbs, olives, apples, pears, almond trees and grapevines, the donkeys, sheep and goats-reinforce the impression. Glancing out of a window one sees the snow-mantled peaks of Mount Hermon where Jesus may...
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#1 The first bullet factory in Israel was built by the Jewish community in Palestine in 1945, as they knew the British would soon leave and the Arabs would attack. It was a defining moment for Avidar, who knew that Israel would survive if the Jews had quality weapons.
#2 The Ayalon Institute was built on the hilltop, and it was there that the Jewish Scouts movement...
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Shaykh Mithqal al-Fayiz's life spanned a period of dramatic transformation in the Middle East. Born in the 1880s during a time of rapid modernization across the Ottoman Empire, Mithqal led his tribe through World War I, the development and decline of colonial rule and founding of Jordan, the establishment of the state of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict that ensued, and the rise of pan-Arabism. As Mithqal navigated regional politics over the decades,...
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From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the US embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In "Guests of the Ayatollah", Mark Bowden tells...
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The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat-whose Life as Politics anticipated the Arab Spring-uncovers why this occurred, and what made these uprisings so...
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