Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular commodity.
A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign policies.
This book considers different stages of Kurdish history, oppression, and genocide through a critical lens, offering an historiography of Iraq and colonialism.
Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular commodity.
The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul after death.
Goodbye, Tahrir Square is a first-person memoir written from the standpoint of a Jewish boy growing up in Egypt during the watershed years that shaped the Middle East into the powder keg it is today.
Nach der dramatischen Eroberung Konstantinopels im Jahr 1204 durch die Kreuzfahrer des vierten Kreuzzugs lag das einst mächtige Byzantinische Reich in Trümmern.
Sacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East.
This book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine-like other imperial and settler colonial projects-cannot be understood outside the grammar of race.
Dieses eBook: "Meine Wallfahrt nach Mekka" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Maral Jefroudi presents a comprehensive picture of one of the largest migration waves in contemporary history by analyzing refugees' interactions with the Turkish State, the UNHCR, and within the community of Iranians in transit after the 1979 revolution.
"e;The Land of the Moors: A Comprehensive Description"e; by Budgett Meakin is an enlightening exploration of Morocco at the turn of the 20th century, offering readers an in-depth look into the culture, geography, and history of this fascinating region.
This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the field of language contact and multilingualism in ancient Egypt before the Greco-Roman period (4th millennium BCE–4th c.
Petrons Satyrica, einer der maßgeblichen fiktiven Texte der antiken Literatur, stehen seit den sechziger Jahren im Brennpunkt der internationalen Forschung.
Passionate, powerful and thought-provoking, in The Hidden Face of Eve, leading feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi provides a shocking account of the oppression of women in the Arab world.
In seinem Werk "Die mohamedanisch-arabische Kulturperiode" bietet August Bebel eine detaillierte Untersuchung der kulturellen Entwicklungen im arabischen Raum während der islamischen Expansion.
