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A Land of Aching Hearts
The Middle East in the Great War
- Harvard University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 36,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73549-1
EAN 9780674735491
A century after the Great War, the experiences of civilians and soldiers in the Middle East during those years have faded from memory. A Land of Aching Hearts traverses ethnic, class, and national borders to recover the personal stories of those who endured this cataclysmic event, and their profound sense of sacrifices made in vain.The ...
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Midnight at the Pera Palace
The Birth of Modern Istambul
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres sold family heirlooms, an African American impresario founded a jazz club and Miss ...
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- Orion, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-455-8
EAN 9781780224558
Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as his published works, this intellectual biographical follows Herzl's transformation from a private person into the founder and leader of a political movement which made the quest for a Jewish state into a player in international politics. Contrary to the conventional view which saw the Dreyfus affair as ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-202-6
EAN 9781782392026
War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. The Arab revolt against the Turks in WWI was, in the words of TE Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in Europe, the West paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theatre; the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree ...
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Crossroads of War
A Historical Atlas of the Middle East
- Belknap Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-59849-2
EAN 9780674598492
From the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, vying armies have clashed over the territory stretching from the Upper Nile to modern-day Iraq and Iran. Crossroads of War captures five millennia of conflict and conquest in detailed full-color maps, accompanied by incisive, accessible commentary.The lands of the Middle East were home to a succession of ...
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Goliath
Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
- Perseus, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-1-56858-951-0
EAN 9781568589510
In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in ...
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The Yezidis
The History of a Community, Culture and Religion
- IBTauris, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-216-1
EAN 9781784532161
The minority communities of northern Iraq are under increasingly severe threat from Islamic State jihadists. Among these minorities, the Yezidis have one of the most remarkable legacies of any tradition in the Middle East. Yet not just their religious and material culture but now their entire existence is in peril as entire populations seek refuge ...
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Do Gazans ever have fun? Is the Strip beautiful? And do TV reports actually reflect ordinary life inside the world's largest 'open-air prison'? From beautiful beaches to sealed borders, from a secret New Year's Eve party to a lingerie market staffed entirely by men, award-winning writer Louisa Waugh paints an intimate picture of Gaza, revealing ...
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Conflicted are the Peacemakers
Israeli and Palestinian Moderates and the Death of Oslo
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-62892-257-8
EAN 9781628922578
The 1993 Oslo Accords were a key attempt to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict whose failure was largely attributed to extremists on both sides. The book challenges this conventional wisdom by examining the role of Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers themselves in derailing the peace process. Looking at the role of moderates before and after Oslo, the ...
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- Gilgamesh, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 234 páginas
PVP: 18,45 €
ISBN 978-1-908531-41-4
EAN 9781908531414
Directly, with the candour of a well informed old friend, Dr Wafik Moustafa shares an insight into the remarkable situation Egypt finds itself in today. This authoritative commentary on Egyptian affairs casts an eye back over Egypt's modern history, taking the reader through the landmark events that have formed the modern nation, and brings the ...
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- Saqi, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-86356-742-1
EAN 9780863567421
The key to understanding the Arab world today - and in the future - is unlocking its past. In this sweeping and fluent account, John McHugo narrates a journey through the political, social and intellectual history of the Arabs from the Roman Empire right up to the present day. Taking readers beyond the headlines, he ...
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Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee
Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century
- IBTauris, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 28,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-655-3
EAN 9781780766553
Tulips and coffee are defining cultural products of the Ottoman eighteenth century, along with their related institutions of palace and coffeehouse. These cultural products hold multiple meanings in the history and historiography of the period. They are associated with the daily life of common people and their sociabilities, on the one hand, and with the ...
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- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78168-306-4
EAN 9781781683064
""She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against it. For that girl, I embodied absolute evil ... Since then I have been left without my Holocaust, and since then everything in my life has assumed a new meaning: belongingness ...
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Revolutionary Iran
A History of the Islamic Republic
- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104623-5
EAN 9780141046235
This is the definitive history of the Iran-Iraq war, and revolutionary Iran, essential for understanding the country today. For over 30 years the Islamic Republic has resisted widespread condemnation, sanctions, and sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight-year war. Many policy-makers today share a weary wish that Iran would somehow just disappear as a problem.But ...
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- St. Martin's Griffin, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-1-250-04281-1
EAN 9781250042811
"A thrilling account of Egypt's revolution" (Salon) written by a Cairo-based reporter for Time Magazine, now updated and expandedIn early 2011, the world's attention was riveted on Cairo, where after three decades of supremacy, Hosni Mubarak was driven from power. It was a revolution as swift as it was explosive. For eighteen days, anger, defiance, ...
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How Capitalism Failed the Arab World
The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East Uprisings
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-957-4
EAN 9781780329574
Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of youth unemployment. In How Capitalism Failed the Arab World, Richard Javad Heydarian shows how years of economic mismanagement, political ...
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Why Yemen Matters
A Society in Transition
- Saqi, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 436 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-86356-777-3
EAN 9780863567773
The 2011 uprisings in the Arab world saw Yemen oust its longstanding ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Elsewhere, the political upheavals have proved chaotic, but the case of Yemen, so far, has left some room for hope. Important steps have been taken toward military reform, and the National Dialogue Conference - in which serious debate is ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-380-6
EAN 9781780743806
With coverage of all the recent events, the new edition of this best-selling book gives a thorough and accessible account of the history behind the Palestine-Israeli conflict, its roots, and the possibilities for the future. The book is divided into two parts: the first by an American rabbi and professor of Judaism, and the second ...
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The Idea of Israel
A History of Power and Knowledge
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-856-3
EAN 9781844678563
Since Israel's foundation in 1948, one guiding idea has been the cornerstone of its identity, its politics and its actions: Zionism. In this groundbreaking new history, Ilan Pappe looks at the role of ideology in Israel's development, from its inception to the present day. In doing so, he considers the role of the country's universities, ...
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Sex and the Citadel
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952638-4
EAN 9780099526384
As political change sweeps the streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at upheaval a little closer to home - in the sexual lives of men and women in Egypt and across the region. The result is an informative, insightful and engaging account of a ...
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