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The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East by Marc Lynch
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Marc Lynch

DIRECT INTERVENTION: BAHRAIN Bahrain was the first great battlefield of the counterrevolution. Launched on February 14, the tenth anniversary of Bahraini King Hamad’s declaration of reformist National Action Charter, for ...
( Category: Elections March 25,2014 )
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-01-01 | 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 March 25,2014 )
Islam and the Arab Awakening by Ramadan Tariq
mobi | | | Author:Ramadan, Tariq. [Ramadan, Tariq.]

Culture and Meaning Culture is an essential element. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )
Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam by Andrew Wheatcroft
mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-09-15 | Author:Andrew Wheatcroft

THIS MULTIPLICITY UNDERMINED ONE OF THE STRONGEST “PRESUPPOSITIONS” among Westerners about the Balkans.24 They assumed that for all purposes Muslims formed one community and non-Muslims another. It was a logical ...
( Category: Islam March 25,2014 )
The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism by Hamid Dabashi
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Hamid Dabashi

Beinart gives a bravura summary of Jewish triumphs and Arab defeats, ending with the Zionist cliché that ‘We went from strength to strength; they never missed an opportunity to miss ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick
mobi |eng | 2006-09-01 | Author:Nathaniel Fick

22 EIGHT MILES FROM the Iraqi border, I learned about the start of the war from the BBC. Tomahawks and stealth fighters kicked it off a day early in an ...
( Category: Veterans March 25,2014 )
One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Nathaniel Fick

22 EIGHT MILES FROM the Iraqi border, I learned about the start of the war from the BBC. Tomahawks and stealth fighters kicked it off a day early in an ...
( Category: Veterans March 25,2014 )
SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden by Chuck Pfarrer
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Chuck Pfarrer

Zawahiri had become Osama’s puppet master. The doctor encouraged Osama to expand the base at the Lion’s Den, and dig increasingly intricate tunnels, bunkers, and air raid shelters. There was ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:Simon Sebag-Montefiore

THE OUD- PLAYER: WASIF JAWHARIYYEH Wasif Jawhariyyeh started to learn the lute – or oud – as a boy, and soon he was the best oud-player in a town that ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
God's Gold by Sean Kingsley
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-11 | Author:Sean Kingsley

Rome’s 50,000-seat Colosseum, the greatest entertainment facility of the ancient world. Epigraphic evidence reveals that it was built in AD 72 from spoils Vespasian had looted from the Temple of ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
Gaza in Crisis by Chomsky Noam & Pappe Ilan
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Chomsky, Noam & Pappe, Ilan [Chomsky, Noam]

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: Canadian March 25,2014 )
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows by Brian Castner
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Brian Castner

I’m sitting with Jimbo in another faceless airport, before dawn, drinking another cup of black coffee, waiting for another flight to I-can’t-remember. Texas? North Carolina? It all blends together. If ...
( Category: Iraq March 25,2014 )
Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq by John C. McManus
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:John C. McManus

See the Hill, Take the Hill: The Horror of 875 The tension was palpable, jolting, like an electrical current. Here and there, morning fog hung in the valleys. For three ...
( Category: Iraq March 25,2014 )
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-16 | Author:Evan Wright

SEVENTEEN ° SUNSET ON THE NIGHT of March 27 turns the surrounding fields red. First Recon’s camp by the airfield is spread across three kilometers, with the Humvees on the ...
( Category: Iraq War March 25,2014 )
Black Hearts by Jim Frederick
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jim Frederick

Sergeant First Class Blaisdell was at Yusufiyah trying to get a mission under way. A few days earlier, they had caught some suspicious types driving around and found several weapons ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )

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