Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Palestine Liberation Organization	Daniel Baracskay	"This meticulous and in-depth book chronicles the evolution of the PLO, one of the most powerful and influential terrorist organizations in modern Middle Eastern politics and world affairs"--	OL15979947W
Foundations of modernity	Isa Blumı	"Investigating how a number of modern empires transform over the long century (1789-1914) as a consequence of their struggle for ascendancy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Foundations o…	OL16173894W
The UAE and foreign policy	Khalid S. Almezaini	"This book provides a detailed analysis of the foreign policy and foreign aid strategies of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Exploring the cultural factors that have impacted on the foreign policy beh…	OL16175507W
A history of modern Libya	Dirk J. Vandewalle	"Dirk Vandewalle is one of only a handful of scholars who have made frequent visits to Libya over the last four decades. His formidable knowledge of the region is encapsulated in his history of Libya…	OL16176885W
Arab Spring Dreams	Sohrab Ahmari	"During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has…	OL16184427W
Hamas and civil society in Gaza	Sara Roy	"Many in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda. Based on S…	OL16212151W
Conversion and apostasy in the late Ottoman Empire	Selim Deringil	"In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire traditional religious structures crumbled as the empire itself began to fall apart. The state's answer to schism was regulation and control, administered in …	OL16451733W
The 1967 Arab-Israeli war	Wm Roger Louis,Avi Shlaim,William Roger Louis	"The June 1967 war was a watershed in the history of the modern Middle East. In six days, the Israelis defeated the Arab armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan and seized large portions of territory incl…	OL16597061W
A history of modern Morocco	Susan Gilson Miller	Morocco is notable for its stable and durable monarchy, its close ties with the West, its vibrant cultural life, and its centrality to regional politics. This book, by distinguished historian, Susan …	OL16607585W
Faisal I of Iraq	Ali A. Allawi	Born in 1885, King Faisal I of Iraq was a seminal figure not only in the founding of the state of Iraq but also in the making of the modern Middle East. In all the tumult leading to the dissolution o…	OL16816602W
Abdulbahs Journey West The Course Of Human Solidarity	Negar Mottahedeh	xii, 196 pages : 23 cm	OL17579523W
A kingdom of their own	Joshua Partlow	"The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the U.S.--brilliantly portrayed here in its enti…	OL19665286W
The dispensable nation	Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr	"Former State Department advisor for Afghanistan and Pakistan and bestselling author Vali Nasr delivers a sharp indictment of America's flawed foreign policy and outlines a new relationship with the …	OL19962618W
Temptations of power	Shadi Hamid	"In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously declared that we had reached "the end of history," and that liberal democracy would be the reigning ideology from now on. But Fukuyama failed to reckon with the id…	OL19975767W
The commander	Laila Parsons	"Revered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman Ar…	OL20035438W
The age of jihad	Patrick Cockburn,Patrick Cockburn	"Presented in ... diary form, this substantial volume draws together a careful selection of Cockburn's writings from the frontlines of the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, intersperse…	OL20037439W
Arab Approaches to Conflict Resolution	Frederic S. Pearson,Nahla Yassine-Hamdan	"This book examines Arab approaches to mediation, negotiation and settlement of political disputes. This book proposes that two clusters of independent variables are potentially responsible for the d…	OL21257757W
Syrian notebooks	Jonathan Littell	"In 2012, Jonathan Littell went to the heart of the Syrian conflict, embedding himself with the Free Syria-Army in the historic city of Homs. He watched from the front line as the city was ruthlessly…	OL23227211W