Middle Eastern
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:REZA KAHLILI

17 THE TORCH IS PASSED INSIDE MEHRABAD AIRPORT’S terminal, echoing voices competed with loudspeaker flight arrival and departure announcements. Somaya and Omid were waiting at the gate outside customs. I ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Antonio J. Mendez & Matt Baglio [Mendez, Antonio J. & Baglio, Matt]

9 HOLLYWOOD I met Jerome Calloway for the first time during the early 1970s, on the set of a spy-themed TV show. The show was popular in the late 1960s ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Michael Burleigh

III DELIVERING CHAOS If all Irish terrorists were psychopathic criminals like Murphy, there would be no demonstrable ebb and flow to the violence, or shifts in how it was used ...
( Category: Radicalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Mark Mazzetti

12: THE SCALPEL’S EDGE “We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours.” —President Ali Abdullah Saleh The meeting was set up for a surrender, a symbolic gesture of peace ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Vali Nasr

On the campaign trail, Obama had said that Iraq was a misguided enterprise, a needless and costly war of choice that had tarnished America’s image. So it was not a ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-09 | Author:Ted Dekker

Hezbollah Sheik Nabil Qaouk We left the coffee shop with firm handshakes and much more discussion. In another place and another time, not all might have been so congenial, but ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Robert Baer

Oil reserve estimates are based on data provided by oil-producing countries and oil companies. They’re not independently audited, and the numbers are impossible to corroborate. The higher reserves an OPEC ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Joan Peters

rhaps one of the greatest paradoxes of the history of the “Palestinian Problem” is that the Hope Simpson Report, which by itself contributed substantially to the myth of “displaced” and ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-02-01 | Author:Robin Wright

The ultimate redline for politics in Damascus is religion. It is another of Syria’s ironies. On Easter weekend, I visited the Umayyad Mosque. It is one of the most magnificent ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )