Middle East
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-19 | Author:Shlomo Sand

PROTESTANTS AND THE COLONIZATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST Tel Aviv, the largest city in Israel, has no street named after British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, because at some point its ...
( Category: History & Theory August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Tabler, Andrew [Tabler, Andrew]

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 August 19,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Norman G. Finkelstein

Nearly half of American respondents in a poll taken right after the flotilla bloodbath believed that the passengers were responsible for it while only 20 percent believed Israel was to ...
( Category: Diplomacy August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:Ahron Bregman

THE MADRID PEACE CONFERENCE AND AFTER Meanwhile, President Bush, having led an international and regional coalition to victory over Iraq, was in a strong position to honour his pledge to ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-02-06 | Author:Fisk, Robert [Fisk, Robert]

Israeli soldier: You can talk to me. Woman: They took my husband and my two sons and they smashed the teeth of one of my sons and they put us ...
( Category: Lebanon August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Harms, Gregory & Ferry, Todd M. [Harms, Gregory]

THE PLO AND PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM, PART II Throughout the 1970s the PLO grew in reputation and recognition. Though still fractured and heterogeneous, Arafat attempted to steer the organization toward moderation ...
( Category: History & Theory August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-09-06 | Author:Pappe, Ilan [Pappe, Ilan]

On that same day, the Israeli army had received a large shipment of modern, brand new 0.45-calibre cannons from the Communist Eastern bloc. Israel now possessed artillery unmatched not only ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-23 | Author:Peled, Miko [Peled, Miko]

My journey and my transformation were becoming more intense. Soon I had to face my moment of truth—although it turned out to be the first of many such moments, moments ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Dodge, Toby [Dodge, Toby]

CHAPTER FOUR Rebuilding the civil and military capacity of the Iraqi state Among the three drivers of conflict and civil war, the major factor was the collapse of state capacity, ...
( Category: Treaties August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-03-12 | Author:Cole, Juan [Cole, Juan]

One of Iraq’s biggest problems—the Kurdish question—so signally lacks a significant religious or Islamic dimension that it has been impossible to portray in the terms of Islam Anxiety, and so ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Hirst, David [Hirst, David]

‘EXECUTING’ THE JEWS Perhaps the most poignant victims of the anti-Western terror were not Westerners at all, even if, in the minds of their tormentors, they were closely associated with ...
( Category: Lebanon August 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe [Chomsky, Noam & Pappe, Ilan]

But the gains in security for Israeli towns near Gaza were evidently outweighed by the felt need to deter diplomatic moves that might impede West Bank expansion, and to crush ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Karen Armstrong

4 ISLAM TRIUMPHANT IMPERIAL ISLAM (1500-1700) The discovery and exploitation of gunpowder led to the development of a military technology that gave rulers more power over their subjects than before. ...
( Category: Islam July 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

The Dome of the Rock, built by Caliph Abd al-Malik and completed in 691. By restoring the Temple Mount and erecting the first major Islamic building there, Muslims expressed their ...
( Category: General July 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 1987-07-14 | Author:Steven Runciman [Runciman, Steven]

Plate I. The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his sons, Henry VI, King of the Romans and Frederick, Duke of Swabia. Plate II. Constantinople from the Asiatic coast. The sea of ...
( Category: Asia July 27,2014 )