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Yale University Press
Language
English
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This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side—where the archives are still closed—is illuminated with the help of intelligence
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Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as New York Times bestselling author Scott Anderson shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before. In this...
Author
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Naguib Mahfouz's novel Children of the Alley has been in the spotlight since it was first published in Egypt in 1959. It has been at times banned and at others allowed, sold sometimes under the counter and sometimes openly on the street, often pirated and only recently legally reprinted. It has inspired anxiety among the secular authorities, rage within the religious right, and a drawing of battles lines among Arab intellectuals and writers. It dogged...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Schneider offers a startling reexamination of this leader's critical role in shaping the modern Middle East. The answers have profound implications for modern times, as a new generation of revolutionaries pulls pages from Lawrence's playbook of irregular warfare.
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Publisher
Dover Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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World War I Collection Spotlight - Biography and Memoir
World War I Collection Spotlight - Middle East, Africa, and Asia
World War I Collection Spotlight - Middle East, Africa, and Asia
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"It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language. As a narrative of war and adventure it is unsurpassable." - Winston Churchill T. E. Lawrence's autobiographical tale, the basis for the film Lawrence of Arabia, offers a firsthand account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks. Lawrence was already a living legend by the time of this book's initial publication, and his colorful, poetic memoir paints a fascinating portrait of the...
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