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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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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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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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ISBN 978-0-85750-308-4
EAN 9780857503084
After the recent success of Princess, More Tears to Cry the Princess Al-Saud and Jean Sasson are collaborating on this new book to bring readers up to date not only with the Princess and her family but the stories and experiences of characters who formed the focus of the last book: Dr Meena - the ...
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ISBN 978-0-00-819282-2
EAN 9780008192822
An inspiring tale of modern migration, overcoming adversity and escaping the hell of war, from a girl struggling to walk for the very first time in her life.Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy. This did not stop her travelling, with her sister, 4000 miles from Syria to Hungary in a wheelchair. Having taught herself to speak ...
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ISBN 978-0-300-21717-9
EAN 9780300217179
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil warMost accounts of Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the escalating violence. Christopher Phillips argues instead that the ...
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ISBN 978-1-909621-47-3
EAN 9781909621473
Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and ...
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ISBN 978-1-78074-949-5
EAN 9781780749495
In this insightful analysis, highly-respected expert John Robertson canvases the entirety of Iraq's rich history, from the seminal advances of its Neolithic inhabitants to the aftermath of the American-led invasion and Iraq today. Grounded in extensive research, this balanced account of a country and its people explores the greatness and grandeur of Iraq's achievements, the ...
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This book draws on extensive research , including participant observation ans interviews carried out by the author, to paint an intimate portrayal of the workings of the Muslim Brotherhood, which have been shrouded in mystety until now.
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ISBN 978-1-78453-691-6
EAN 9781784536916
For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on through ideas as varied as the legendary Hanging Gardens, the career of the biblical Daniel, and even the Apocalypse. More recently, the site of Babylon has been the centre of major excavation, yet the spectacular results of this work ...
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ISBN 978-0-8050-9897-6
EAN 9780805098976
In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a ...
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ISBN 978-1-78378-310-6
EAN 9781783783106
This is a book about Palestine today. It is neither apologetic nor romanticized, but a powerful and brilliantly realized scream of a book, scorching and tender, from a journalist whose anger and empathy burn through every word. Over the past three years, Ben Ehrenreich has shared the laughter, fury and sorrow of people in cities ...
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ISBN 978-1-78074-941-9
EAN 9781780749419
The wave of popular uprisings that swept through the Middle East promised to pave the way for democracy. It brought down dictators and captured the popular imagination, but for most of the region, peace and stability remain as elusive today as they have ever been. In this fully revised introduction, Oxford University's Philip Robins takes ...
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ISBN 978-1-78453-541-4
EAN 9781784535414
In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though methodical and restrictive, life there seemed to suit Lawrence: "The Air Force is not a man-crushing humiliating slavery, all its days.There is sun x{0026} decent treatment, and a very real measure of ...
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ISBN 978-1-78360-889-8
EAN 9781783608898
Starting with the basic question "what is this place?", award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her "beloved country". In challenging the authoritarian AKP government - for which she lost her job as a journalist - Temelkuran draws strength and wisdom from people, places and artistic expression. The result is a beautifully rendered ...
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ISBN 978-0-7453-3551-3
EAN 9780745335513
Many obituaries have been written for Egypts attempted revolution. But for Philip Marfleet, the revolution is an ongoing process best understood by examining the complex, changing relations among its principal actors. In Egypt, Marfleet gives a robust, wide-lens account of the political struggle unfolding from just before the 'Arab Spring' of 2011 to the summer ...
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ISBN 978-0-14-310832-0
EAN 9780143108320
Dick Davis, "our pre-eminent translator from the Persian" (Washington Post) has revised and expanded his highly-praised translation of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, including more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis's elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shanameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly-marked explanations to ease ...
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ISBN 978-0-300-21531-1
EAN 9780300215311
Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, a forthcoming referendum on independence for Southern Sudan ...
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ISBN 978-0-7181-9971-5
EAN 9780718199715
The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, the book concludes with the establishment of Turkish independence in the Treaty of Lausanne, 1923. ...
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