M.B - Middle East 1

This book chronicles the operations of the French Navy's Aéronautique maritime and the British Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean between 1914 and 1918. Oper……続きを見る

Mina was born in the same house as her mother and grandmother, but she felt like a stranger, victimized by the city that had once been Kandahar. This Kandahar, with its three thousand years of histo……続きを見る

From the outset of the twentieth century, Egyptian and Indian leaders understood their movements for self-determination as linked and part of a shared project. Following World War I, as connections ……続きを見る

Beginning in January 2011, the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity, liberty, and achievable purpose in life, rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant, corrupt, unresponsi……続きを見る

Each phase of Arab-Israeli peacemaking has been inordinately difficult in its own right, and every critical juncture and decision point in the long process has been shaped by U.S. politics and the U……続きを見る

C’est autour de divers éléments de réflexion (politique, économique, militaire...) permettant de comprendre la Russie d’aujourd’hui que s’organise le dossier de ce numéro de Politique étrangère, afi……続きを見る

« Les Trente Honteuses » sont l’histoire des relations entre la France, Israël et le Liban, durant une période qui s’étend de la fin de la guerre d’Algérie (1962) à la fin de la guerre civile libana……続きを見る

Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema……続きを見る

In tracing the causes of the Crusades, that fearful drama whose nine acts ran the weary length of nearly two centuries, and at a low computation cost Europe two millions of lives, the word itself be……続きを見る

The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will gain a gr……続きを見る

Dalle guerre russo-turche di fine Ottocento, passando per il Trattato di Sèvres del 1920 fino ad arrivare al voltafaccia di Trump nel 2019, i curdi sono stati con-tinuamente traditi da un Occidente ……続きを見る

Dans la Turquie ottomane, le secret est une vertu cardinale du pouvoir. Le sultan règne sans partage, mais avec l'appui d'un groupe d'initiés – parti, clan, confrérie – toujours tenus par le secret.……続きを見る

British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as ‘slaves of the sultan’, yet they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides the first histo……続きを見る

"An enriching account of the expansion of the political and cultural frontiers of the Latin West in the central Middle Ages."ー History Today When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem f……続きを見る

Krithia was a key objective in the land offensives; a killing ground greater than Anzac or Suvla. This book adds to the Gallipoli story and the preceding Battleground books on that campaign by recou……続きを見る

The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion of the "Other" to the concept of national identity……続きを見る

Shia politics roared to the center of power in Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003 after decades of marginalization under Saddam Hussein. A new generation of clerics and politicians, self-described……続きを見る

An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State In the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever chan……続きを見る

Zakariyya Tamir is Syria's foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across the Arab world. In this, the first English language monograph on Tamir's entire oeuvre, Alessandro C……続きを見る

In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where three world l……続きを見る

"Strong evidence that the Roman Empire is of Edomite origin ... left our minds in bewilderment ... is one to be studied." -Church of England Quarterly Review William Beeston in his 1858 book "The Ro……続きを見る

This book uses both succinct, informative essays and beautiful, detailed photography to reveal how recent archeological discoveries in the ancient country of Armenia have transformed our understandi……続きを見る

Most of our information about Herod the Great derives from the accounts found in Josephus' Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities. Together they constitute a unique resource on one of the most famous per……続きを見る

This highly-praised and authoritative account surveys the history of the Ottoman Empire from its obscure origins in the 14th century, through its rise to world-power status in the 16th century, to t……続きを見る

Why does the rift between the US and Iran persist? Iran and the United States have been at odds for forty years, locked in a cold war that has run the gamut from harsh rhetoric to hostage-taking, fr……続きを見る

The Anzac legend was born on the shores of Gallipoli during the historic morning of 25th April 1915. Landing on a hostile beach, under the cover of darkness, the Anzacs moved inland rapidly, but the……続きを見る

In 1992 Christina Lamb reported on the war the Afghan people were fighting against the Soviet Union. Now, back in Afghanistan, she has written an extraordinary memoir of her love affair with the cou……続きを見る

Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural production, intellectual move……続きを見る

In that the clerical regime in Iran lacks the military capability to build advanced weaponry, it has resorted to the production of weapons and equipment that can be used for terrorist and war-monger……続きを見る

The divisive and malleable nature of history is at its most palpable in situations of intractable conflict between nations or peoples. This book explores the significance of history in informing the……続きを見る