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Employing an engaging question-and-answer format, The Arab Uprisings explores the revolutionary protests that have rocked the Arab world since late 2010. In this updated and revised second edition, James L. Gelvin explores the varied paths taken by the uprisings and...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-19
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Throughout the turbulent history of the Levant the 'Alawis - a secretive, resilient and ancient Muslim sect - have aroused suspicion and animosity, including accusations of religious heresy. More recently they have been tarred with the brush of political separatism and...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-12
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Wahhabism is an Islamic reform movement found mainly in Saudi Arabia. Closely linked to the Saudi monarchy, it enforces a strict code of morality and conduct monitored by mutawa (religious police), and governs every facet of Saudi life according to its own strict...
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Hurst
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2015-01-09
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The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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Qatar and the Arab Spring offers a frank examination of Qatar's startling rise to regional and international prominence, describing how its distinctive policy stance toward the Arab Spring emerged. In only a decade, Qatari policy-makers - led by the Emir, Sheikh Hamad...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-12-15
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Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding ofIran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and nuanced political...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-27
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Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding ofIran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and nuanced political...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-27
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Turks Across Empires tells the story of the pan-Turkists, Muslim activists from Russia who gained international notoriety during the Young Turk era of Ottoman history. Yusuf Akçura, Ismail Gasprinskii and Ahmet Agaoglu are today remembered as the forefathers of Turkish...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-13
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Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History unfolds the cultural itineraries of modernJewish and Israeli art music. Extending from modernJewish art music in Europe through its dislocation to British Palestine and Israel, the book captures the tensions...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-15
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Completing his acclaimed trilogy on the history of Israel, Leslie Stein brings readers right up to contemporary events in Israel Since the Six-Day War. Stein vividly chronicles Israel's wars and military engagements, but he also incorporates fascinating assessments of...
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Polity
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2014-08-13
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Pilgrim and Preacher seeks to understand the numerous pilgrimage writings of the Dominican Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502), not only as rich descriptions of the Holy Land, Egypt, and Palestine, but also as sources for the religious attitudes and social assumptions that went...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-08-07
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Israel: Jewish state and national homeland to Jews the world over. But a fifth of its population is Arab, a people who feel themselves to be an inseparable part of the Arab nation, most of which is still technically at war with the State of Israel. In the summer of 1991...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-07-31
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In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula in 1967's brief but pivotal Six Day War. CURSED VICTORY is the first complete history of the war's troubled aftermath - a military...
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Penguin
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2014-06-05
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In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travelwriter-historian Justin Marozzi gives us a many-layered history of one of the world's truly great cities - both its spectacular golden ages and its terrible disasters'Justin Marozzi is the most brilliant...
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Penguin
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2014-05-29
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The classic images of Iranian nomads in circulation today and in years past suggest that Western awareness of nomadism is a phenomenon of considerable antiquity. Though nomadism has certainly been a key feature of Iranian history, it has not been in the way most modern...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-03-03
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The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire.The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-02-03
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As Britain's colonial secretary in the 1920s, Winston Churchill made a mistake with calamitous consequences. Scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government, Christopher Catherwood chronicles and analyzes how Churchill created the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World...
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Basic Books
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2014-01-14
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Insecure Gulf examines how the concept of Arabian/Persian Gulf 'security' is evolving in response to new challenges that are increasingly non-military and longer-term. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating the impact of environmental degradation and...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-04
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For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats.For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's.For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines.For...
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John Murray
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2013-10-24
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The Yom Kippur War was a watershed moment in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the modern Middle East more broadly. It marked the beginning of a US-led peace process between Israel and her Arab neighbours; it introduced oil diplomacy as a new means of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-01
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