Middle Eastern history

In 1912, Italy occupied Rhodes, an Ottoman town inhabited by Greek Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, and Catholics.

In July 1456, a massive Turkish army settled in before Belgrade, an ancient city at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers.

In July 1456, a massive Turkish army settled in before Belgrade, an ancient city at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers.

In this fascinating book, the planning and building of Yad Vashem, Israel's central and most important institution for commemorating the Holocaust, merits an outstanding in-depth account.

This book offers a method for studying the Noble Quraan and making practical sense of its passages.

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Persecution of Christians in the Middle East has been a recurring theme since the middle of the nineteenth century.

The Qur'an is God's verbatim speech for most traditional Muslims.

In 1893, Said Jureidini, an Arabic-speaking Christian from the Ottoman Empire, experienced an evangelical conversion while attending the Chicago World's Fair.

Everyone has a unique life story to tell.

The classic account of war and adventure in the Middle East that transformed T.

Subjects covered in these pages include: Egyptian SpiritualityThe Akhenaten Heresy and Its Impact on Religion and Mystical ThoughtCreation Mythology of the Four CentresThe Soul and Its Journey in Egyptian Metaphysical ThoughtSecrets of the Book of the DeadThe Nature of the Human BeingRa's Journey through the Underworld and Its Initiatory SignificanceEgyptian Mysteries as the Prototype of Ancient Mystery SchoolsShamans, Hierophants, and the Initiatory ProcessWisdom of the Egyptian Sages, from Ancient Egypt to the Hermetic Mystics of AlexandriaThe Heart as the Spiritual Self and Monitor of Morality in Human BehaviourKIRKUS REVIEW:A collection of insights into the esoteric meanings of ancient Egyptian religious and spiritual practices.

An investigation is made here of a marking and counting system used in Ancient Egypt similar to the one existing in Mesopotamia, during the fourth millennium BCE.

In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film.

In This Flame Within Manijeh Moradian revises conventional histories of Iranian migration to the United States as a post-1979 phenomenon characterized by the flight of pro-Shah Iranians from the Islamic Republic and recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s.

Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the government.

Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about.

In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy.

In Visions of Beirut Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images have shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut.

Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home.

In Queer in Translation, Evren Savci analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP government.

In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one.

The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency.

In the early 2000s, mainstream international news outlets celebrated the growth of Weblogistan-the online and real-life transnational network of Iranian bloggers-and depicted it as a liberatory site that gave voice to Iranians.

In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City.

Hannah M Cotton's collected papers focus on questions which have fascinated her for over four decades: the concrete relationships between law, language, administration and everyday life in Judaea and Nabataea in particular, and in the Roman world as a whole.

Hector Fernandez Cuba junio 1965 es un joven estudioso de las culturas antiguas y fruto de abundantes compilaciones historicas es su novela, " El Guerrero Uteh en el Reino de Ramses II" este libro narra las aventuras del joven Uteh descendiente de una estirpe guerrera que arde en deseos de entrar en combate bajo las ordenes del Faraon Ramses II contra su mas potente enemigo el imperio Hitita {actual Armenia) y que culmina con lo que hoy se conoce como el primer tratado de paz entre ambos imperios, escrita en lenguaje coloquial y directo sin rebuscamientos barrocos el texto de fernandez incerta inmediatamente al lector en un mundo fascinante y exotico, literatura que tiene un largo expediente contemporaneo recordemos Mika Waltari con "Sinuhue el Egipcio" esta novela se agrega con su precensia singular al monto de total de la literatura cubana escrita en las ultimas dos decadas .

The PilgrimageThe first section of the story of Akhenaten is told by Ambrose, the soul self of Akhenaten/Smenkhkare.

Egypt's lack of a common national identity is the basis for much of its internal conflict--Coptic Christians have been particularly affected.

In recent decades, Israel has come under sustained diplomatic pressure from the West.

This book looks at both sides of the conflict, the PLO and other Terrorist groups, Israeli State sponsored terrorism , the injustices that are perpetuated on a daily basis by the settlers and the early Jewish terrorist groups such as the Ingrum group and when you finally complete this book you will see that all sides have blood on their hands, NO ONE IS INNOCENT.

Too often we are tempted into thinking how wrong other peoples religions and scriptures are, rather than focusing on whats right about our own.

Take a journey through the Middle East, examining the dynamics that made it a lightning rod for political controversy, religious dissension, and violence between 1968 and 1988.

The World Today Series: The Middle East and South Asia.

In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine in search of opportunity.

In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem.

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This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics, and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate group's historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries.

This entry in the MiddleEast@War series is illustrated with abundant photographs from previously unused, or very rarely used, private and official sources.

For most people the mention of graffiti conjures up notions of subversion, defacement, and underground culture.

For most people the mention of graffiti conjures up notions of subversion, defacement, and underground culture.

This comprehensive analysis documents the military forces in each Middle Eastern country at the end of the Cold War.

Failure in Palestine traces Britain's attempts to reconcile her commitments to Palestine with her interests in the rest of the Middle East through bureaucratic and diplomatic paths to her eventual abandonment of Palestine.

In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N.

In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N.

Memory is a constructed system of references, in equilibrium, of feeling and rationality.

Memory is a constructed system of references, in equilibrium, of feeling and rationality.

"e;Nassar brings to life the artistic prowess, rallying cries, and dashed dreams of the leading Palestinian litterateurs in Israel.

Krithia was a key objective in the land offensives; a killing ground greater than Anzac or Suvla.