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City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:Ramita Navai [Navai, Ramita]

As he entered the city, Kambiz rang and told him to drive to a road off Pirouzi Street, in the east of town. When Bijan arrived, Kambiz’s boys were waiting ...
( Category: Iran October 16,2014 )
Thirteen Days in September : Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David (9780385352048) by Wright Lawrence
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Wright, Lawrence [Wright, Lawrence]

AFTER THE MEETING concluded in acrimony, Carter asked Dayan to walk with him back to his cabin. He vented his anger over what he saw as Begin’s obstructionism and asked ...
( Category: Treaties October 14,2014 )
Thirteen Days in September : Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David by Wright Lawrence
mobi |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Wright, Lawrence [Wright, Lawrence]

AFTER THE MEETING concluded in acrimony, Carter asked Dayan to walk with him back to his cabin. He vented his anger over what he saw as Begin’s obstructionism and asked ...
( Category: Treaties October 14,2014 )
Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Scott Anderson

TO THE ANNOYANCE of defense-minded military commanders throughout history, civilians have a tendency to stay put in their homes until an enemy invading force is just over the horizon. Then, ...
( Category: Diplomacy October 13,2014 )
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Wallach Janet
mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Wallach, Janet [Wallach, Janet]

As successful as the alliance was with Fahad Bey, relations with colleagues in Cairo had hit a snag. In accord with the letters between Henry McMahon and the Sharif Hussein, ...
( Category: Great Britain October 13,2014 )
Desert Queen (9780307744364) by Wallach Janet
epub |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Wallach, Janet [Wallach, Janet]

As successful as the alliance was with Fahad Bey, relations with colleagues in Cairo had hit a snag. In accord with the letters between Henry McMahon and the Sharif Hussein, ...
( Category: Great Britain October 13,2014 )
Disordered World by Amin Maalouf
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Amin Maalouf [Maalouf, Amin]

King Hussein’s attitude in 1967 is easier to understand if you compare it with that of another of Israel’s neighbours, Lebanon. Its leaders took a decision not to participate in ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 11,2014 )
A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel by Allis Radosh & Ronald Radosh
epub |eng | 2009-05-12 | Author:Allis Radosh & Ronald Radosh [Radosh, Allis & Radosh, Ronald]

While Truman remains a potential supporter of our cause—for party reasons—the State Department, and especially Henderson, are apparently doing their best to counter-balance this by overemphasizing, as usual, the Arab ...
( Category: Diplomacy October 10,2014 )
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Edward W. Said [Said, Edward W.]

Flaubert’s work is so complex and so vast as to make any simple account of his Oriental writing very sketchy and hopelessly incomplete. Nevertheless, in the context created by other ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies October 9,2014 )
Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure by Michael Asher
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Michael Asher [Asher, Michael]

10 The 19th Hussars under Lieut. Colonel Percy Barrow dashed up to the square to find it was all over. They had been tasked with skirmishing to the left, but ...
( Category: England September 22,2014 )
State of Failure by Jonathan Schanzer
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Jonathan Schanzer

12 Quashing Critical Media and Protesters While the PA was never a full-fledged democracy, one could argue that the Palestinians enjoyed more freedoms under the PA than the majority of ...
( Category: Middle Eastern September 22,2014 )
Throne of Adulis by Bowersock G.W
epub |eng | 2013-09-21 | Author:Bowersock, G.W.

7 THE ETHIOPIAN INVASION OF 525 If Cosmas can be trusted in reporting that he was present at Adulis twenty-five years before he was writing, he was there in 523 ...
( Category: Judaism September 22,2014 )
City of Oranges by Adam LeBor
epub |eng | 2006-09-21 | Author:Adam LeBor

In the summer of 1962 Hasan Hammami moved to Baghdad, where his father Ahmad had been living since 1953. Hasan was now a married man. He had returned to education ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine September 22,2014 )
Bible and Sword by Barbara W. Tuchman
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

Mehemet, smoking his diamond-studded pipe, promised him “any portion of land open for sale in Syria” and agreed to “do everything that lies in my power” to support his project. ...
( Category: England September 22,2014 )
Days of God : The Revolution in Iran and Its Consequences by Buchan James
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Buchan, James [Buchan, James]

CHAPTER 11 God Is Great If God’s Prophet were here now, He’d say, “Why did you give My son three hosannas, and Me only one?” —Mehdi Bazargan1 On the television ...
( Category: Middle Eastern September 18,2014 )

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