Middle East
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Chomsky, Noam

5 International Terrorism: Image and Reality (1989) There are two ways to approach the study of terrorism. One may adopt a literal approach, taking the topic seriously, or a propagandistic ...
( Category: Middle Eastern November 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-11-11 | Author:Bing West

“I felt good about that,” White said later. “It had taken us a long time to work back and we had lost Lummis along the way. But we kept hanging ...
( Category: Vietnam War November 12,2015 )
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 | 2015-10-12 | Author:Gwynne Dyer [Dyer, Gwynne]

CHAPTER 6 JIHAD: IRAQ AND SYRIA, 2010–2013 The untimely demise of AQI’s leader, Abu Ayyub al Masri, and of Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the titular head of the “Islamic State ...
( Category: Middle Eastern November 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Brian Cloughley

There was no need for this sort of pietistic stuff (although there may have been chuckles about‘our military aggression’) and Washington considered its tone inappropriate. (A US diplomat in Washington ...
( Category: India October 26,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-09-19 | Author:Rajiv Chandrasekaran

PART TWO Shattered Dreams 9 Let This Be Over THE AL-RASHEED HOTEL WAS a concrete-and-glass monstrosity built by the Oberoi Group of India in the 1980s, before Saddam’s manic spending ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Hodgson, Marshall G. S. [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The lessons Sa’dî taught and the wisdom he preached made no pretence to originality. Indeed, wisdom is seldom original. What Sa’dî aimed to do was to put the old truths ...
( Category: Islam October 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Hodgson, Marshall G. S. [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The two sides in this schism have subsequently been labelled, conventionally, ‘Snnuîs’ and ‘Shî‘îs’. Each side adopted a historical position in justification of its present attitude. The Shî‘îs came to ...
( Category: Islam October 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Hodgson, Marshall G. S. [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The completion of the European world conquest Nationalism in the last decades of the century was a growing force in the main Muslim centres, and after 1905 was to dominate ...
( Category: Islam October 23,2015 )
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 | 2015-05-29 | Author:Max Blumenthal [Blumenthal, Max]

Dr. Hani Shaniti shows a photo he took of one of the Dalou children badly wounded in the Israeli assassination attempt on Mohammed Deif. I woke in the late morning ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 21,2015 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Victor Ostrovsky [Ostrovsky, Victor]

* * * That day, February 4, the Israelis forced the private jet to land at the Ramat David air-force base near Haifa. But rather than the big-name PLOs, the ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-30 | Author:Toby Matthiesen [Matthiesen, Toby]

112 Al-Thawra al-Islamiyya 98 (May 1988), 8–13; “Saudis and Iran: New Assertiveness,” New York Times, 4 May 1988; “Saudi Arabia Beheads 16 Kuwaitis Linked to Pro-Iranian Terrorism,” New York Times, ...
( Category: History & Theory October 11,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Joby Warrick

14 “Are you going to get him?” Iraq’s historic first vote for a National Assembly was set for January 30, 2005, and Bin Laden, in the same audio statement that ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-07 | Author:Bryce, Trevor

Antiochus ‘the Great’ That left Antiochus free to turn his attention eastwards once more. The famous series of campaigns on which he now embarked, from 212 to 205/4 BC, are ...
( Category: Syria September 8,2015 )