Middle East
epub |eng | 2010-07-23 | Author:Avner, Yehuda [Avner, Yehuda]

It was Ezer Weizman, his defense minister, and I gathered from what was being said that there had been two Katyusha rocket attacks by the PLO, from southern Lebanon into ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine March 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Sandy Gall [Gall, Sandy]

13 The Protection-Money Racket We don’t trust what they say any more. Pushtun elder, Kandahar, quoted in the New York Times, 26 March 2010 Kandahar is Afghanistan’s second city, the ...
( Category: General March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:Peter Sheehan [Sheehan, Peter]

[W]ith the British occupation came a sense of security which has led to the most deplorable destruction. The need of a fortified enclosure having vanished, Copts, Greeks, and Jews vied ...
( Category: Egypt March 4,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:William McCants [McCants, William]

Conclusion Apocalypse Then and Now The French scholar of Muslim apocalypticism, Jean-Pierre Filiu, has argued that most modern Sunni Muslims viewed apocalyptic thinking with suspicion before the United States invaded ...
( Category: History & Theory March 3,2016 )
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, azw3 |eng | 2006-09-22 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

IX : Deportations from the Reich—Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate Between the Wannsee Conference in January, 1942, when Eichmann felt like Pontius Pilate and washed his hands in innocence, and ...
( Category: Holocaust February 29,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Andrew Tabler

6 NO VOICE LOUDER THAN THE CRY OF BATTLE A little after 8 am on July 12, 2006, Hezbollah fighters fired katusha rockets from Lebanon into Israel. Simultaneously, a squad ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 12,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Rashid Khalidi

II Among the factors that caused the Arab population of Palestine to identify with the country in the years immediately before World War I, several stand out. We have already ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Karl Yambert [Yambert, Karl]

Impacts on Iraq The invasion removed a brutal regime, freeing Iraq from a personality cult reflected in numerous statues and public portraits of the leader, and from a one-party political ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Robert Bauval & Ahmed Osman [Bauval, Robert & Osman, Ahmed]

Figure 5.13. General Mohammad Naguib, first President of Egypt, 1953–1954 (photo courtesy Al-Ahram) Now with the British support he had once enjoyed being totally neutralized, Farouk asked the United States ...
( Category: Egypt February 2,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Ahmed Osman [Osman, Ahmed]

25 Jerusalem, City of Peace It has been suggested—wrongly, I believe—that the name Jerusalem appeared in Egyptian records as early as the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries B.C. at the time ...
( Category: New Testament February 2,2016 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-15 | Author:Rick Joyner [Joyner, Rick]

ST. ELMO’S FIRE Then Mustafa Pasha redirected the main part of his force to capturing the small star fort, St. Elmo, which overlooked the Grand Harbor. This diversion gave la ...
( Category: Christianity January 25,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pietikäinen, Petteri [Petteri Pietikainen]

Charcot’s fame did not rest on any ingenious theoretical treatises on hysteria, but on his case studies: he published over 120 richly illustrated case histories that fully revealed the drama ...
( Category: Egypt January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Podany, Amanda H. [Podany, Amanda H.]

7. In this cuneiform letter found in Kanesh, the Assyrian merchant Assur-idi writes to his son Assur-nada about their trading operations transporting textiles to Anatolia. The father and son kept ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 10,2016 )