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My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner by Meir Shalev
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Meir Shalev [Shalev, Meir]

17 When my sister was two or three years old our mother began to travel with us from Jerusalem to Nahalal by train: Jerusalem to Lydda, Lydda to Haifa, from ...
( Category: World August 16,2018 )
Blood In The Sand by Benny Hinn
epub | | 2009-08-03 | Author:Benny Hinn [Hinn, Benny]

To make matters worse, in July the British government seized the “Exodus,” a ship crammed with over forty-five hundred survivors of the Holocaust, victims of the Nazi regime. The world ...
( Category: Middle East August 13,2018 )
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Martin Bunton
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Martin Bunton [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 East August 12,2018 )
Israel: An Echo of Eternity by Abraham Joshua Heschel
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel [Heschel, Abraham Joshua]

Israel’s vital interest in peace has been expressed again and again. What is holy about the Holy Land? It is not only because its space is filled with frozen echoes ...
( Category: Judaism August 12,2018 )
A Century of War (Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order) by F. William Engdahl
epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:F. William Engdahl

Taking the bloom off the ‘nuclear rose’ One principal concern of the authors of the 400 percent oil price increase, was how to ensure their drastic action did not drive ...
( Category: Industries August 11,2018 )
Mecca by Ziauddin Sardar
epub |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Ziauddin Sardar

I left the Roman land apace, A candle I became that melted. Blessed be God that I could there bow my head, Lord Apostle, how fair were the ways of ...
( Category: Islam August 11,2018 )
The Ottoman Endgame by Sean McMeekin
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Sean McMeekin

God’s word, “A Man shall have twice a woman’s share,” and made them equal. They went further and removed one of the five corner-stones of the Faith . . . ...
( Category: Middle East August 11,2018 )
In Ishmael's House by Martin Gilbert
epub |eng | 2010-08-10 | Author:Martin Gilbert [Gilbert, Martin]

13 TOWARDS LIBERATION, AND AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE ‘Underpressure of a new nationalism’ In November 1942, as German troops were driven out of Egypt, an Anglo–American force landed in North Africa ...
( Category: World August 11,2018 )
Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative by Scott Savran
epub |eng | | Author:Scott Savran

6 The buildup to the confrontation Khusraw II Parvīz and the rise of the Arabs Islamic historical memory bears witness to the unraveling of the Sasanian state under Khusraw II ...
( Category: Middle East August 11,2018 )
A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East by Darling Linda T
epub |eng | 2013-08-10 | Author:Darling, Linda T.

4 The Islamic empire 1 A detailed survey of Islamic history is M. G. S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam: conscience and history in a world civilization, 3 vols, Chicago, ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 11,2018 )
Magnum! The Wild Weasels in Desert Storm by Braxton R. Eisel & James A. Schreiner
epub |eng | 2009-08-18 | Author:Braxton R. Eisel & James A. Schreiner

I had set the strobe of our radar to level so that it was sweeping out ahead of us at our altitude. At his call, I looked down at my ...
( Category: Middle East August 11,2018 )
Voices of the Iraq War by Steed Brian
epub |eng | 2016-04-29 | Author:Steed, Brian

Aftermath Basra continued to be a challenge throughput Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2008 the militias took over the city and the Iraqi Army, led by the prime minister deployed a ...
( Category: Middle East August 10,2018 )
Jerusalem by D. Kelly Ogden & David B. Galbraith & D. Kelly Ogden
epub |eng | 1996-08-09 | Author:D. Kelly Ogden & David B. Galbraith & D. Kelly Ogden [Skinner, Andrew C.]

16 Crusader Jerusalem, 1099-1187 In 1095 the Byzantine Christian emperor, Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118), appealed to the Roman Catholic Church for help against the advance of the Seljuk Turks. Conceiving ...
( Category: Religious Studies August 10,2018 )
Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism by Ghazal Amal N
epub |eng | | Author:Ghazal, Amal N.

Reforming the Imamate Two years after the publication of that article, al-Bahln sent a long letter to Imam in Oman. Not only did its content attest to the ongoing intellectual ...
( Category: Africa August 10,2018 )
The Ismaili Assassins by James Waterson
epub |eng | 2008-10-29 | Author:James Waterson

Usama’s memoirs also show how the Assassins’ blades were not just aimed at ‘great’ men. There was a low-level war between minor lords and the sect also taking place, over ...
( Category: Military August 9,2018 )

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