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In The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who-France or the National Liberation Front (FLN)-would exercise sovereignty...

'A vivid, inspiring and sometimes poetic history of modern Iraq' - miriam cooke Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, many Iraqi academics were assassinated. Countless others received bullets in envelopes and instructions to leave their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087935621Author Andrew O'MearaFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Briton Publishing LLCPublisher Briton Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 281g

Between the 1963 'White Revolution' and the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the position of women in Iran experienced a number of fundamental shifts. Policies and reforms were introduced, including land, suffrage, education and dress reforms which the Pahlavi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861512987Author Mohammed JabarFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 450g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616101374Author Ghada H. TalhamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Orange Grove BooksPublisher Orange Grove Books

Does Islamic law allow Muslims to live under the rule of non-Muslims? Can there be an authentic Islam where the Shari`ah cannot be enforced? This anthology includes translations of some of the key Islamic voices on these issues from the fourteenth...

Examining history not as it was recorded, but as it is remembered, An Incurable Past contextualizes the classist and deeply disappointing post-Nasserist period that has inspired today's Egyptian revolutionaries. Public performances, songs, stories, oral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578075631Author Nathan SzajnbergFormat PaperbackImprint IpbooksPublisher IpbooksWeight(grams) 304g

As the birthplace of three principal religions, the Middle East is holy to 15 million Jews, 2 billion Christians, and 1 billion Muslims. As the cradle of western civilization, it is fundamental to world history, the place where humans transformed...

What are the roots of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and how has it been influenced by the United States? Why has the U.S.-brokered 'peace process' repeatedly failed to deliver peace? What are the prospects for a just resolution? What interests underlie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312355692Author Andre GerolymatosFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Thomas Dunne BooksPublisher Thomas Dunne BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199358113Author Professor of Islamic History Paul M CobbFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University...

Anne Marie Baylouny examines previously undocumented effects of neoliberal economic reforms on middle classes in the Middle East. As the state's safety network has been withdrawn, kin-based mutual aid associations-organized around new definitions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143103851Author Sudarshan; V.Format PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231063784Author Samir KhalafFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940490703Author Everett RowsonFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint American Oriental SocietyPublisher American Oriental SocietyWeight(grams) 998g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890030448Author Seeger A. BonebakkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Undena Publications,U.S.Publisher Undena Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 334g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906090435Author Burton MacDonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint J.R. Collis PublicationsPublisher J.R. Collis Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833029003Author Dalia M. SpektorFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094389Author M. C. LyonsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust

This catalogue contains descriptions of Persian medical manuscripts in the collection at UCLA; Persian texts in predominantly Arabic MSS are also listed, without descriptions. “Numerically, UCLA’s collection of Persian medical manuscripts ranks among...

The secular Republic of Turkey, which has gone further towards Westernization than any other Muslim country, has been caught up in the Islamic revival sweeping the world from Morocco to the Philippines. Three-quarters of a century after Mustafa Kemal...

In this insightful anthology, historians Marvin E. Gettleman and Stuart Schaar have assembled a broad selection of documents and contemporary scholarship to give a view of the history of the peoples from the core Islamic lands, from the Golden Age of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471741510Author BritannicaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 288g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199898299Author Professor Jean-Pierre FiliuFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989920445Author Bashar MustafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Demar SouthardPublisher Demar SouthardWeight(grams) 136g

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has always been a marriage of convenience, not affection. In a bargain cemented by President Roosevelt and Saudi Arabia's founding king in 1945, Americans gained access to Saudi oil, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755654239Author John FreelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 454g

The security of the West is threatened by escalating turmoil rising out of the Arab states is Lebanon, a small, tortured country poised uneasily between East and West. Improbably, this most unique of Arab states has much to teach about the Arab world...

A multilayered, multidisciplinary examination of migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region during two centuriesThis issue of Cairo Papers takes up the various dimensions of migration and refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean region over different periods...

This book will serve as a guide for those who wish to understand the Lebanese conflict-expert and general reader alike-and for those, as well, who would work to bring peace to that tormented land. From Palestinian, Syrian, and Israeli intervention to...

Postwar American officials desired - in principle - to promote Arab-Israeli peace in order to stabilize the Middle East. Yet Peter L. Hahn shows how, during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, that desire for peace was not always an American...

The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab-Israel conflict. Kenneth Stein investigates in detail and without polemics how and why Jews acquired land from Arabs in Palestine during the British Mandate, and he reaches conclusions that are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997263503Author Nahida H GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Palestine Books, Inc.Publisher Palestine Books, Inc.Weight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

The secular Republic of Turkey, which has gone further towards Westernization than any other Muslim country, has been caught up in the Islamic revival sweeping the world from Morocco to the Philippines. Three-quarters of a century after Mustafa Kemal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692297537Author Michael J TottenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Belmont Estate BooksPublisher Belmont Estate BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615837673Author Franklin W JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Franklin W. JacksonPublisher Franklin W. JacksonWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm)...

From a small group of religious students formed in 1994, the Taliban quickly grew into a national movement that occupied all of Afghanistan. When the Americans overthrew the Taliban in 2001, the United States thought the regime had been defeated. Yet...