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Saddam Hussein by Efraim Karsh
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 )
Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide by Eric Bogosian
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Eric Bogosian [Bogosian, Eric]

After the war began in 1914 and Armenian soldiers were conscripted, in May 1915 came the news that the schools had to be shut and that the city’s notables and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 3,2016 )
Yosef Haim Brenner by Shapira Anita Berris Anthony
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 )
Revolutionary Iran by Axworthy Michael
epub |eng | 2013-12-28 | Author:Axworthy, Michael

Montazeri Hosein-Ali Montazeri was born in Najafabad near Isfahan in 1922. He studied initially in Isfahan and later in Qom, where he met Khomeini and became one of his followers ...
( Category: Iran December 29,2015 )
Empire of Fear : Inside the Islamic State by Hosken Andrew
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-24 | Author:Hosken, Andrew

10 Scourge of Syria 2011–2014 In January 2013, the Sunni MP Dr Alaa Makki was in Washington DC and paid a visit to his friends in the US state department. ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 29,2015 )
Opium Nation by Fariba Nawa
epub |eng | | Author:Fariba Nawa

My father gave my mother the name Nafasgul, meaning “the breath of a flower,” as was tradition in their generation—husbands often gave their wives endearing nicknames when they first married. ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction December 28,2015 )
Fire Mission - The Diary of a Firing Sergeant in Afghanistan by Douglas Craig
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 )
Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr
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 )
The Persians by Homa Katouzian
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Homa Katouzian

THE AZERBAIJAN REVOLT AND CONFLICTS OVER OIL When the war ended, Iran was facing all the difficulties mentioned above, to which the revolt in Azerbaijan was now added. There were ...
( Category: Satire December 16,2015 )
The Three Trillion Dollar War by Linda J. Bilmes & Linda J. Bilmes
epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Linda J. Bilmes & Linda J. Bilmes

Global Peace and Security THE DREAM OF the U.S. invaders was to create a stable, prosperous, and democratic Middle East. But America’s intervention in Iraq is laying the foundations for ...
( Category: Economic Policy December 16,2015 )
Palestine Speaks by Cate Malek
epub |eng | | Author:Cate Malek [Malek, Cate; Hoke, Mateo]

YOU DON’T ENTER HEAVEN UNLESS YOU ARE UNDER YOUR MOM’S FEET For my wife, I think it was really easier for her to adjust to life in the U.S. than ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 15,2015 )
The Two-State Delusion by Padraig O'Malley
epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Padraig O'Malley

Chapter 2 Dueling Narratives and Addiction to Narrative 1. Adwan et al., Side by Side, x. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid., xv. 4. Ibid. “This tension between two contradictory symmetries is ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 15,2015 )
Islam in Liberalism by Joseph A. Massad
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-12-10 | Author:Joseph A. Massad [Massad, Joseph A.]

13 See Leila Ahmed’s discussion of Montagu in Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 121–22. 14 Quoted in Andrea, “Islam, Women, and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 14,2015 )
Mideast Beast: The Scriptural Case for an Islamic Antichrist by Joel Richardson
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Joel Richardson [Richardson, Joel]

11 DANIEL 12: SEALED UNTIL THE END-TIMES BEFORE WE CONCLUDE our study of Daniel, there is one more very important passage that needs to be considered. As Daniel comes to ...
( Category: Prophecies December 13,2015 )
Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran by Sciolino Elaine
azw3 |eng | 2000-10-02 | Author:Sciolino, Elaine [Sciolino, Elaine]

I never did get the chance to talk with Montazeri. During one visit to Qom, I approached his house, but the police guard outside was too intimidating. Over time, though, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 1,2015 )

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