Middle East
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Christopher Tyerman [Tyerman, Christopher]

Jihad, a pillar of the Muslim faith, means “struggle.” The greater jihad is the internal or personal struggle, and the lesser jihad is the struggle in the believer’s daily activity. ...
( Category: Christianity June 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Amin Maalouf

9 The Rush for the Nile ÝMy uncle ShÐrkÙh turned to me and said, “YÙsuf, pack your things, we’re going.” When I heard this order, I felt as if my ...
( Category: Islam June 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Fariba Nawa [Nawa, Fariba]

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 June 20,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-10-17 | Author:Con Coughlin [Coughlin, Con]

By the summer of 1982 the glory Saddam had hoped to acquire from the “second Qadisiya” was fast becoming a distant memory. The brutal reversal in Iraq’s fortunes in a ...
( Category: Political June 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Benny Morris [Morris, Benny]

The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the crushing of the Arab armies in June 1967 reenergized the Palestinian people and put the Palestinian problem back ...
( Category: Middle Eastern May 30,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Paul McGeough

Of all the savage stories of the twenty-month-long Iraqi insurgency, the story of how a young disabled boy was turned into a human bomb is one of the cruellest. His ...
( Category: Iraq May 7,2014 )
epub | | 2013-10-01 | Author:Adam Hanieh

The Internationalization of Gulf Capital Over the past decade, the development of these Gulf conglomerates has been further marked by the pronounced internationalization of capital flows beyond national borders. This ...
( Category: Middle East April 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |nld | 2009-09-03 | Author:Ron Hale-Evans

Dit komt overeen met wat je handen eerder deden. Je tilt alleen je duim op. De vingerregel (zoek de vinger met de laagste macht van 2 die naar beneden wijst, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology April 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Edward Said [Said, Edward]

Thus archaeology becomes the royal road to Jewish-Israeli identity, one in which the claim is repeatedly made that in the present-day land of Israel the Bible is materially realized thanks ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling April 17,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Iddo Netanyahu

Chapter V Other people’s stories join my own memories. They settle together into my mind — not in a jumble but in a line, each memory leading to the next, ...
( Category: Middle East April 15,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Eamonn Gearon

Motors, Mars and Planes “People condemn the motor-car as unromantic. I am afraid this is natural, for no one can become fond of a thing he does not really understand, ...
( Category: North Africa April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Robert M Gates [Robert M Gates]

MY NEW AGENDA AT DEFENSE By 2009, I had come to believe that the paradigms of both conventional and unconventional war weren’t adequate anymore, as the most likely future conflicts ...
( Category: Iraq War April 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Haqqani, Husain [Haqqani, Husain]

WHEN INDIA ANNOUNCED on May 18, 1974, that it had tested a “peaceful nuclear device,” Americans were preoccupied with controversies related to the Watergate scandal. Although the timing of the ...
( Category: Diplomacy April 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Pressfield, Steven [Pressfield, Steven]

TWENTY I had watched the army marshal on the plain beneath Athena of the Brazen House perhaps fifty times over the previous nine years, in various strengths of call-up as ...
( Category: Military April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Keegan

6 The American War History repeats itself, though no two historians agree quite how. Those who reported the First Gulf War of 1990–91 had an almost eerie impression of events ...
( Category: International & World Politics April 2,2014 )