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In early 2011 an elderly Alawite shaykh lamented the long history of "oppression and aggression" against his people. Against such collective memories the Syrian uprising was viewed by many Alawites, and observers, as a revanchist Sunni Muslim movement and the gravest threat yet to the unorthodox Shi'a sub-sect. This explained why the Alawites largely remained ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-4421-9
EAN 9781445644219
The journey that made Richard Burton famous as a traveller and explorer in the nineteenth century was a pilgrimage to Mecca, which he carried out disguised as a Pashtun tribesman from what is now north-western Pakistan or Afghanistan. Having spent seven years in India with the army of the East India Company, Burton was familiar ...
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The Rise of Islamic State
ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-040-1
EAN 9781784780401
Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more successful than Al Qaeda ever were, taking territory that reaches across borders and includes ...
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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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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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- 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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- 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 Iron Wall
Israel and the Arab World
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 944 páginas
PVP: 26,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103322-8
EAN 9780141033228
Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on Israel's most recent leadersIn the 1920s, hard-line Zionists developed the doctrine of the 'Iron Wall': negotiations with the Arabs must always be from a position of military ...
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Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen
Egypt's Road to Revolt
- Verso Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-142-8
EAN 9781781681428
Hazem Kandil presents the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath as the latest episodes in the ongoing power struggle between the three components of Egypt's authoritarian regime: the military, the security services and the political apparatus. A detailed study of the interactions within this invidious triangle over six decades of war, conspiracy and sociopolitical transformation, Soldiers, ...
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- Taylor & Francis, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 252 páginas
PVP: 204,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4094-5552-3
EAN 9781409455523
The 'Arab Spring' triggered paradigmatic shifts but, despite these changes, much in the Euro-Mediterranean region remains the same. Utilising 'Logics of Action', an innovative theoretical framework designed to capture the complexity of political interaction in one of the fastest changing regions in the world, this book discusses developments in the region before and after the ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-768-0
EAN 9781780767680
The early years of Syrian-US relations can be described as hopes dashed, hopes revived. Although American missionaries had visited the Middle East in the nineteenth century, it was not until after World War I that Syrian and US dignitaries met in an official capacity. The relationship had its ups-and-downs: warm under Woodrow Wilson; virtually non-existent ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19817-1
EAN 9780300198171
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9967-8
EAN 9780718199678
Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book, fully updated to 2009, follows the historic struggles of the region over the last two hundred years, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to the painful emergence of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 70,80 €
ISBN 978-0-8122-4530-1
EAN 9780812245301
In December 2010, the self-immolation of a Tunisian vegetable vendor set off a wave of protests that have been termed the "Arab Spring." These protests upended the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen while unsettling numerous other regimes throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Dafna Hochman Rand was a senior policy planner in ...
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Patriot of Persia
Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup
- Vintage, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954048-9
EAN 9780099540489
On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, the Iranian prime minister. To Winston Churchill he was a lunatic, determined to humiliate Britain. To President Eisenhower he was delivering Iran to the Soviets. Mossadegh must go. Bertrams Buyer's Notes:A ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28801-4
EAN 9780571288014
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab people from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a ...
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