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Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse……続きを見る

This book examines and discusses the ordeals that women face as violence is perpetrated against them in politically conflicted and militarized areas. In conflict zones, every act is affected by, dep……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE A fierce and moving work and an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament. Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Si……続きを見る

Meelya's dreams are her refuge from events that threaten her or escape her understanding. She leaves her home in Lebanon to live in Nazareth with her Palestinian husband, but Mansour - an older man ……続きを見る

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twen……続きを見る

This book is a study of political thought in Islam from the viewpoint of the history of ideas and the relevance of these ideas to contemporary Arabic political discourse. The author examines the use……続きを見る

Devenită bestseller imediat după publicarea sa în 1991, Istoria popoarelor arabe s-a impus în timp ca o lucrare clasică. Hourani cuprinde într-o privire panoramică o întreagă civilizație, cu oamenii……続きを見る

Appreciated by the Arab speaking world, kept as a treasure by those who value beauty, this poet's words are worthy of being remembered. Powerfully conveying a revelatory image, skillfully reflecting……続きを見る

This download Is a monologue depicting the life of Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Queen of Jordan, advocate and humanitarian. It includes a version for school-age or adult audiences and one for K-2 studen……続きを見る

The profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab World during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history of the 20th century. The uprising sparked by the Husayn-McMa……続きを見る

Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolution……続きを見る

Who has the right to a safe and protected childhood? Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding deepens understanding of children as political capital in the hands of those in power, crit……続きを見る

L'Iran, 4 000 ans d'Histoire à portée de main. Depuis les antiques civilisations du plateau iranien jusqu'à l'actuelle République islamique née de la révolution de 1979, ce pays-continent, creuset b……続きを見る

Focusing on the interplay between domestic-level changes and region-wide interaction, this book provides a comprehensive analytical and theoretical survey of Iranian foreign relations in the Middle ……続きを見る

Even though war has swirled near and occasionally into El-Kfeir many times in the past, you'd think this ancient Lebanese village has remained relatively untouched by the outside world. However, a b……続きを見る

Viaggio nella mente spietata e visionaria di Hasan-i Sabbah, «Il Vecchio della Montagna» narra la leggenda nera del fondatore e primo gran maestro dell’Ordine degli Assassini (alla lettera «consumat……続きを見る

This book offers a new interpretation of the rich narratives of Arab secularism, contending that secularism as a set of ideas and a social movement is destined to loom large on the political and leg……続きを見る

Hikers held captive in Tehran tell their story in “a moving memoir by three individuals who found the strength to survive” (San Jose Mercury News). During the summer of 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fat……続きを見る

Syria is a country in turmoil, making headlines almost daily with news about its violent civil war and refugee crisis. This one-volume addition to the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations serie……続きを見る

"The Way to the West" tells the story of the opening of the west, including the accounts of three early Americans Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett and Kit Carson. "The Story of the Cowboy" is a historica……続きを見る

The parables are told by a fictional Babylonian character called Arkad, a poor scribe who became the "richest man in Babylon". Included in Arkad's advice are the "Seven Cures" (or how to generate mo……続きを見る

First Published in 1990. Viewed from the perspective of Whitehall, Persia was a crossroads where Britain’s European and Indian interests met. Control of Persia by any European power was bound to jeo……続きを見る

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabiaーas diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then publisher of The Wall Street Journalーa……続きを見る

When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Yet in their attempts to understand Iraqi society and history, few policy makers, analysts and jou……続きを見る

Inclusing a new introduction and conclusion, this revised second edition deals with a vital yet neglected ingredient in modern Arab culture. It is the only scholarly study of Arab historiography. It……続きを見る

Why was the corpse of Khalil Ahmad Jaber found in a mound of rubbish? Why did he disappear weeks before his horrific death? And who was he? A journalist begins to piece the truth together by speakin……続きを見る

Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from civil war? Was it to answer his brother Nasim's ……続きを見る

The study of Arab historiography and of the emergence of the Arab nation-state as an object of historical treatment is a matter of considerable current interest. Despite its importance, no academic ……続きを見る

DAS GRANDIOSE MEISTERWERK, DER KLASSIKER ZUR GESCHICHTE DER ARABISCHEN WELT, von den Anfängen des Islam bis heute. Jetzt in einer repräsentativen Neuausgabe mit einem aktuellen Nachwort, das die Ges……続きを見る

Bitter, brownish and sticky, opium - the sap of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - has been cultivated from the earliest of times. Known to the Greeks as opos or opion, as afiun in Persian and Ar……続きを見る