Middle East
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shirin Ebadi

A week later we were invited to Evin to see the doctor. Evidently Iran’s “justice system” was functioning fine, as long as you knew who to pay. My father asked ...
( Category: Middle East May 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:James Reston, Jr.

CHAPTER TWENTY HOME FIRES SMOLDERING SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE THESE PRODIGIOUS events in Acre, the indomitable, the incomparable, the irrepressible Eleanor of Aquitaine left her favorite son, Richard, in Sicily and ...
( Category: Royalty May 2,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Barbara Bray

CHAPTER 9 ‘Calif Out’ ‘Calif Out’ read the headline above the article in Time Magazine. On March 3rd 1924 Ataturk, the new charismatic nationalist leader of Turkey, and the Turkish ...
( Category: Royalty April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-27 | Author:Wendell Steavenson

EVERY FRIDAY EVERY FRIDAY PEOPLE RETURNED TO TAHRIR. THE FRIDAY OF DEMAND, the Friday of the Popular Committees, the Friday of Cleansing, the Friday of the Martyrs. Hassan and I ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 14,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-04-14 | Author:Brian Keenan

THE HAMMAM MAIL WHEN LUNCH WAS brought I asked where John was. ‘I do not know,’ came the reply. ‘If you have hurt him . . .’ The door banged ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-12 | Author:Lawrence, T. E. [Lawrence, T.E.]

CHAPTER LX VESSELS steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: World War I January 26,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Lawrence, T. E. [Lawrence, T. E.]

CHAPTER LX VESSELS steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: World War I January 26,2016 )
mobi |eng | 1992-10-19 | Author:David P. Chandler [Chandler, David P.]

Tuol Sleng. Photo by Bruce Sharp. Copyright by Bruce Sharp. An interrogation room at Tuol Sleng. When Vietnamese troops arrived in Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, the bodies of ...
( Category: India & South Asia January 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Efraim Karsh

Saddam's pragmatic maneuvering was sufficient for rallying the international community behind the Iraqi war effort. However, in his struggle to survive the window of extreme personal vulnerability to which he ...
( Category: Political January 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Shapira, Anita,Berris, Anthony [Shapira, Anita]

Eight Wartime, 1914–1918 The thunder of the cannons in August 1914 heralding the outbreak of war in Europe was also heard in faraway Palestine. The Yishuv was cut off from ...
( Category: Middle East January 3,2016 )
epub |rus | 2013-09-21 | Author:Douglas, Craig [Douglas, Craig]

The Patrol People are beginning to move out of the local area. An exodus to safety, which means a presence of Taliban. Smudge can sense the weight of many sets ...
( Category: Middle East December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-18 | Author:Dan Ephron [Ephron, Dan]

SOMEHOW, THE JEWISH Affairs Department saw no way to make use of the information. It did, however, relay the report to Dignitary Protection, the unit within Shabak responsible for guarding ...
( Category: History & Theory November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Shimon Peres [Peres, Shimon]

He put the issue to the vote: Declare the state in two days’ time as planned, or wait? By a vote of six to four the ministers of the Provisional ...
( Category: Jewish October 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:André Clot

9 The Greatest City of East and West The capital of the Byzantine Empire for fifteen centuries, Constantinople – Istanbul1 – naturally became the Ottomans’ capital as soon as they ...
( Category: Asia August 20,2015 )