Middle Eastern history

The Discovery of Iran examines the history of Iranian nationalism afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, the founder of Iran's first Marxist journal, Donya.

The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria.

Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar.

In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police.

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed.

Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south.

Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the state's regulatory regimes.

A multivocal account of why Egypt's defeated revolution remains a watershed in the country's political history.

The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes.

"e;A brilliant and bracing analysis of the Palestine question and settler colonialism .

Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements.

The Greater Middle East poses major challenges for the United States.

A guide to meaningful life choices for living an ethical life without theology or religious faith.

Why should your child take the time to study ancient history when it's long gone and done?

How did the people from the Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian Empire live?

Are all governments--east and west, Muslim and secular, authoritarian and constitutional, Republican and Democratic--fundamentally the same, all of them under the extraordinary, growing power of "e;technique"e; and bureaucracy?

History is a very interesting yet boring topic for most children.

While the Arthurian folk tales are mostly stories of friendships, this one is focused on the strength and spirit of King Arthur especially when he pulled the sword from the stone.

History knows Cleopatra as a beautiful and powerful ruler of Egypt.

Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by the American people.

Of the approximately seven million Palestinian refugees around the world, more than 650,000 are living in camps along the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

It was a time of great societal unrest that the Great King Hammurabi decided to step forward and craft is Code of Law.

"e;Judicious and impartial, this important work adds nuance to the portrait of one of the Middle East's most divisive players"e; (Publishers Weekly).

Since its inception, al Qaeda has aspired to create a safe haven in Yemen,where it has operated against U.

Pope Paul VI's notion of "e;integral human development,"e; which was endorsed by his successors including Pope Francis, broke with the modern project of purely economic and technological development, resulting in an original understanding of development.

a The conflict is only a seemingly' beyond solution, because all historical-political problems have solutions, if there is enough courage, honesty, and steadfastness.

The ancient civilization of the Mesopotamia may have been long gone but it was never forgotten.

In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally.

In a time of political turmoil, how should we pray?

Did you know that aside from being the longest river in the world, the Nile is also very important in the History of Egypt?

The early Islamic conquests began when in the 7th century and the rise of Prophet Muhammad.

The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven centuries.

How do Arabs view America?

How is it that the person who created and defined the field of Black Studies and drafted Dr.

Civilization is defined as the stage of human organization that is considered most advance.

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In the course of his thirty-two-year reign over ancient Egypt, Thutmose III fought an impressive seventeen campaigns.

Dieses eBook: "Serapis (Historischer Roman aus dem alten Ägypten)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

The church in the United States faces a dilemma: How is it possible for Christ's followers to worship faithfully in a nationalistic environment where religion and politics enjoy a vigorous affiliation while the separation of church and state is celebrated as the standard for the relationship between nation and faith?

In emergency medicine, "e;the golden hour"e; is the first hour after injury during which treatment greatly increases survivability.

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The battle for hearts and minds in the Middle East is being fought not on the streets of Baghdad, but on the newscasts and talk shows of Al Jazeera.

The connections between religion and violence are complex and multifaceted.

Pentecostals and Nonviolence explores how a distinctly Pentecostal-charismatic peace witness might be reinvigorated and sustained in the twenty-first century.

Since the United Nations adopted the principle of self-determination in 1945, great powers have found that military strength is no guarantee of success in small wars fought against insurgents who use guerrilla and terrorist tactics.

Details how Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda fighters slipped out of Afghanistan during the battles of Tora Bora and Operation Anaconda.

The author of the best-selling State of the World Atlas builds a unique contemporary understanding of the factors and forces at play by homing in on the key events, themes, resources and relationships.

Imam Nawawi's collection of forty two hadith brings together some of the most important and pivotal Prophetic traditions.

Church, nation and race compares the worldviews and factors that promoted or, indeed, opposed antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War.

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.