In 1996 Barghouti went back to his Palestinian home for the first time since exile following the Six-Day War in 1967, first in Egypt and then in Hungary, and wrote a poignant and incisive account of the exile's lot in the acclaimed memoir I Saw Ramallah.
Winner of the Hay Festival Award for ProseWinner of the 2016 IWMF Courage in Journalism AwardShortlisted for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Excellence in Journalism AwardShortlisted for the 2017 Moore Prize for Non-Fiction Literature In May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria, marking the beginning of a long relationship with the country, as she began reporting from both sides of the conflict, witnessing its descent into one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history.
"El imaginario social construido desde la década de los ochenta está plagado de perversiones ideológicas: desde el pensamiento único que aboga por la imposibilidad de cuestionar el capitalismo hasta el inevitable choque civilizatorio entre Oriente y Occidente que mantiene que los musulmanes del mundo se unirían para destruir la civilización judeo-cristiana.
This book came as a natural response and an inevitable consequence of my former writers who fought the field of wound, amendment and scientific criticism, which are a book (Books of Men's Translations between Wound and Amendment) and the book (Scientific Criticism of the Curriculum of Investigators on Heritage Books) as he stood on the critical side of the scholars and historians of opinions and narratives They took the geniuses of Akkad as an example to which the arrows of criticism, evaluation and evaluation are directed.
In 1918, as the First World War ravaged the European continent, young American journalist Lowell Thomas traveled to the Ottoman Empire to report on the revolts breaking out as an indirect result of the savage European conflict.
An objective, professional, and informed resource that will help you understand the history and culture of the Middle Eastincluding including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey, and Syria.
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "e;the doyen of Middle Eastern studies,"e; Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe.
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "e;the doyen of Middle Eastern studies,"e; Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe.
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.
Armenia, el país en el que todo es posible, el país que, como eterna Arca de Noé, pone a resguardo de tempestades humanas y de las otras, variopintas especies de su cultura milenaria.
Now in a shorter, easy-to-read guide, this book explains Israel's complex, often bloody, foreign policy, and provides a definitive history of these ancient conflicts.
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.
As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences.
Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards.
This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure.
This work is a narrative of personal experiences of the author, John Hargrave, while serving with the 32nd Field Ambulance, X Division, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, during the Great WarThis book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis.
"e;"e;In writing this short account of the 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia, my aim has not been to write a military history of all that was achieved; that will be the task of some one more competent to judge of merits and demerits than myself.
"Important to understand and remember what Gaza was""Gaza does only interest the world when blood flows", wrote the author/journalist Lotta Schüllerqvist when "Marna´s Secret" was first published in 2010.
Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion.
Nahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night.
