Middle East
epub |eng | | Author: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 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Hazleton, Lesley [Hazleton, Lesley]

Fourteen The Battle of Badr was fought on March 17, 624, and if it was not quite what Muhammad had sought, it would turn out to be exactly what he ...
( Category: Islam September 18,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2004-03-18 | Author:Rodger W. Claire

Ever since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had landed in Tehran in February 1979, Saddam had kept a jaundiced eye to his east. Socialist and secular, Hussein distrusted the bearded, fanatically religious ...
( Category: Nuclear September 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-02 | Author:John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt [Mearsheimer, John J. & Walt, Stephen M.]

to resume talks with Israel is the response of official Israel . . . PrimeMinister Ariel Sharon has remained silent. Not a word has been heard fromhim .. . In ...
( Category: Diplomacy August 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Mehran Kamrava

In the patrimonial Middle East, the sovereign is located at the center of the political system. He is surrounded by advisors, ministers, military leaders, personal secretaries, and confidants. The one ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Alan Hart [Hart, Alan]

While he studied that advice President Roosevelt was preparing for a summit with Churchill and Stalin. The world’s Big Three were to meet in Yalta in early February mainly for ...
( Category: Nationalism August 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Judis, John B. [Judis, John B.]

The Committee Proposals After Jerusalem, the twelve committee members—dubbed the “twelve apostles”—repaired to the quiet beauty of Lausanne, Switzerland, to formulate their findings at the Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel on Lac ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 22,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Whitelam, Keith W.

The indigenous culture, it seems, was incapable of such national awareness or the formation of written traditions. The paradox of trying to represent the Davidic monarchy as both unique and ...
( Category: Judaism August 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Homa Katouzian

Dress code and forced unveiling The official imposition of new dress codes, and even the forced removal of hejab, was based on another cherished nationalist modernist ideology. The law of ...
( Category: Iran August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:McHugo, John [McHugo, John]

a Jew who appears to love you Yet secretly harbours betrayal25 This bigotry does not prevent Abu Nuwas and the Jew establishing mutual respect and even affection. When asked his ...
( Category: Islam August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Robins, Philip [Robins, Philip]

The second reason for the increasing impetus behind political reform was the ‘demonstration effect’ of the collapse of the Soviet empire and the emergence of a collection of liberalising states ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Bunton, Martin [Bunton, Martin]

Chapter 5 Occupation 1967–87 The armistice agreements that ended the fighting in 1949 in effect delineated the de facto partition of mandate Palestine. Known as the Green Line, the resultant ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-11 | Author:Pope, Hugh [Pope, Hugh]

Elegant officials from the Wau government were our frequent visitors, to hear news of our negotiations with the SPLA, to enjoy some educated company, and to escape from the population’s ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Tom Holland

The Great War Around Easter, AD 600, the plague returned to Galilee. So virulently did the outbreak rage that it had soon spread beyond the Golan Heights and into the ...
( Category: Islam August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-23 | Author:Charles River Editors

Syrian politics took a dramatic turn in 1954, when the military regime of Adib al-Shishakli was overthrown in a coup and a democratic system restored. The Ba'ath, becoming a large ...
( Category: Syria August 19,2014 )