Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico is one of the intriguing, untold stories in the history of both regions. In So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp presents the fascinatin……続きを見る
Long before oil interests shaped American interaction with the Middle East, the U.S. had a strong influence on the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman region. Covering the period from approximately 1800 t……続きを見る
著者:Robert Southey
出版社: Dolce Stil Publishing
発売日: 2012年07月25日
"The Poem of the Cid," the earliest and best of the heroic songs of Spain, is a romance of history in more than three thousand lines, celebrating the achievements of the hero little more than fifty ……続きを見る
Though known to specialists, Comte de Gobineau’s vital if idiosyncratic contribution to Orientalism has only been accessible to the English reader through secondary sources. Especially important for……続きを見る
The authors are outstanding scholars engaged in the study of language varieties spoken in 'convergence areas' in which speakers are multilingual in languages of at least two but sometimes all three ……続きを見る
著者:Dilip Hiro
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2003年09月02日
This highly controversial and topical book provides the first full, balanced account of how Iraq cheated the UN inspectors on disarmament and how the US manipulated and infiltrated the UN inspection……続きを見る
The contributors address the history, originality, variety and sophistication of traditional science, technology and material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia, their influence on the hist……続きを見る
著者:Ovamir Anjum
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This revisionist account of the history of Islamic political thought from the early to the late medieval period focuses on Ibn Taymiyya, one of the most brilliant theologians of his day. This origin……続きを見る
Mohamed Mahmoud street is one of the many Downtown streets. It's not very different from the other streets of this district of Cairo.
There are shops, restaurants, marketplace… People living here ar……続きを見る
著者:Adeed Dawisha
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2013年04月01日
An eye-opening survey of the recent Arab revolutions and their political consequences, comparing them to those of a previous generation.
When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid, Tun……続きを見る
著者:Bleda S. Düring
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
In this book, Bleda Düring offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human societies moved from sm……続きを見る
著者:Judith Scheele
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara describes life on and around the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context. Basi……続きを見る
By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identificat……続きを見る
Part detective story. Part spy thriller. Part techno action blockbuster. This story absolutely does reads like a Tom Clancy novel, but true. FIVE STARS!"
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著者:John Fisher
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
John Fisher explores the acquisitive thinking which, from the autumn of 1914, drove the Mesopotamian Expedition, and examines the political issues, international and imperial, delegated to a War Cab……続きを見る
著者:William Harris
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-com……続きを見る
Anwar Sadat's life was shaped by Egypt's national struggle and the conflict between the Arab world and Israel. This biography charts his progress from fanatical nationalist to President of Egypt, an……続きを見る
The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistem……続きを見る
著者:Craig Larkin
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年03月15日
This book examines the legacy of Lebanon’s civil war and how the population, and the youth in particular, are dealing with their national past. Drawing on extensive qualitative research and social o……続きを見る
The name and fame of Muhammad Ali, the Founder of Modern Egypt, are well known. His vivid personality has appealed to many writers, who have concentrated the limelight on him. Some of them have allo……続きを見る
Over the last two decades there has been considerable enthusiasm for the concept of civil society amongst researchers, practitioners and activists. Yet despite this enthusiasm for the concept, the g……続きを見る
Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran’s film industry, in conforming to the Islamic Republic’s system of modesty, had to ensure that women on-screen were veiled from the view of men. This prev……続きを見る
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 also charges that Western media outlets, eager t……続きを見る
On March 21, 1968, Yasir Arafat and his guerrillas made the fateful decision to break with conventional guerrilla tactics, choosing to stand and fight an Israeli attack on the al-Karama refugee camp……続きを見る
This book aims to set the intense political debates on one side in order to do some serious economic analysis. It assumes that a sovereign independent Palestinian state comes into existence in the W……続きを見る
著者:Trita Parsi
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2011年12月16日
Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a bett……続きを見る
In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of “sacred” architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines……続きを見る
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad histori……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Tabler
出版社: Lawrence Hill Books
発売日: 2011年09月01日
A key player and an unrelenting obstacle in the Middle East peace process, Syria has long been a thorn in Washington's side when it comes to forging strategic alliances with powers in the region. Bu……続きを見る