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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17579-9
EAN 9780691175799
The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as ...
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"A clarion call to all of us that we should not give up. Somewhere there is a voice in the wreckage." (Michael Palin). The Raqqa Diaries began as a series of short broadcasts on Radio 4's 'Today' Programme. Now one of the most isolated and fear ridden cities on earth, no-one is allowed to speak ...
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The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty
The Husaynis 1700-1948
- Saqi, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 450 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-86356-453-6
EAN 9780863564536
The Husayni family of Jerusalem dominated Palestinian history for 250 years, from the Ottoman times through to the end of the British Mandate. At the height of the family's political influence, positions in Jerusalem could only be obtained through its power base.In this compelling political biography, Ilan Pappe traces the rise of the Husaynis from ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17582-9
EAN 9780691175829
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- Random House UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-242-7
EAN 9781847922427
The Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise, reform and adapt. But, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day, Islamic society in its Middle Eastern heartlands has in fact been transformed by modern ideals and practices, including the adoption of modern medicine, the emergence of women from ...
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The Six Day War
The Breaking of the Middle East
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22270-8
EAN 9780300222708
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6615-0
EAN 9781445666150
The tragic news of the ISIS-inspired massacres in Paris, Brussels, Nice, Orlando, and countless other locations throughout the Middle East, in conjunction with the recent failed political coup against Erdogan in Turkey, have raised the spectre of an ideological struggle that is more than a century old. As the West struggles with the consequences and ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-696-1
EAN 9781784536961
The rapid expansion of ISIS and its swathe of territorial gains across the Middle East have been headline news since 2013. Yet much media attention and analysis has been focussed upon the military exploits, brutal tactics and radicalisation methods employed by the group. While ISIS remains a relatively new phenomenon, it is important to consider ...
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- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 23,81 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-566-7
EAN 9781849045667
Today's Turkey little resembles that of recent decades. Newfound economic prosperity has had many unexpected social and political repercussions, most notably the rise of the AKP party and President Erdogan. Despite unprecedented electoral popularity, the conduct of the AKP has faced growing criticism: Turkey has yet to solve its Kurdish question; its foreign policy is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29326-7
EAN 9780520293267
This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to the chaos in Turkey. Mixing thrilling anecdotes from street-level reporting that give a reader a sense of what is at stake with a birds-eye view of the geopolitics of the ...
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Irene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers in the H.S. Truman Library, she uncovers little-known features of U.S. ...
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Killing a King
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35324-2
EAN 9780393353242
One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year.The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. Killing a King relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal ...
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Democracy in Iran
Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54504-5
EAN 9780674545045
The Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran in 2009 amid allegations of election fraud shook the Islamic Republic to its core. For the first time in decades, the adoption of serious liberal reforms seemed possible. But the opportunity proved short-lived, leaving Iranian activists and intellectuals to debate whether any path to democracy remained open.Offering ...
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Imperfect Strangers
Americans, Arabs, and U.S. - Middle East Relations in the 1970s
- Cornell, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 34,80 €
ISBN 978-0-8014-4883-6
EAN 9780801448836
In Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other as never before. With Western Europe's imperial legacy fading in the ...
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Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives
The First 1000 Years
- Thames & Hudson, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 36,80 €
ISBN 978-0-500-11030-0
EAN 9780500110300
The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today's second-largest world religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives, and the ways in which they influenced their societies? Chase F. Robinson draws on the long tradition in ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-670-1
EAN 9781784536701
Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks-historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the ...
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The Armenian genocide of 1915 has been well documented. Much less known is the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac peoples, which occurred simultaneously in their ancient homelands in and around ancient Mesopotamia -- now Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The advent of the First World War gave the Young Turks and the Ottoman ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-449-2
EAN 9781784784492
Charting the faults lines of the Middle East since 9/11, award winning journalist chronicles the major conflict of our ageThis is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creation of this hellish crucible. In Diaries, Cockburn exposes the dominant conflict of ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 688 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-001-2
EAN 9781786070012
The primary blame for the failure of the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamic extremism must rest with successive US and UK governments. This is the devastating argument put forward by Middle East expert Christopher M. Davidson who has travelled the world to unearth archived government reports, declassified intelligence, leaked secret documents, and to ...
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Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of World War I, through to the rise of authoritarian military regimes, to the all-encompassing power of Saddam Hussein s dictatorship. They have endured ...
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