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Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy

by Elisabeth Özdalga

When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire. In addition to today's Turkey, including Anatolia and Thrace, their power reached over Mesopotamia, North...

The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire

by Trevor Bryce

This 500,000 word reference work provides the most comprehensive general treatment available of the peoples and places of the regions commonly referred to as the ancient Near and Middle East - extending from...

Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History

by David Biale

To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes...

Iran: Politics, History and Literature

by Homa Katouzian

This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine.

Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of...

Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

by Joel Peters & David Newman

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most prominent issues in world politics today. Few other issues have dominated the world's headlines and have attracted such attention from policy makers, the academic...

Dawn Over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East, 1953-1957

by Steven Z. Freiberger

The most definitive account of the Suez affair to date, based on newly opened archives.

Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World

by Shereen El Feki

If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.

As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has...

The Hands of War: A Tale of Endurance and Hope, from a Survivor of the Holocaust

by Marione Ingram & Keith Lowe

An in-depth introduction to the U.S. war in Afghanistan written by one of the country's leading military scholars. The war in Afghanistan is now the United States' longest running war. For over a decade, the...

When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege

by Raja Shehadeh

The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used...

The Six Day War 1967: Jordan and Syria

by Simon Dunstan & Peter Dennis

Osprey's examination of Jordan and Syria's involvement in the Six Day War (1967). Following the lightning destruction of the Egyptian forces at the outbreak of the Six Day War, Israel turned to the forces of...

Israeli F-4 Phantom II Aces

by Shlomo Aloni & Jim Laurier

The American manufactured F-4 Phantom II was used by the Israelis in air-to-ground missions, as an attack aircraft, and air-to-air missions as a fighter. Despite performing both roles with equal success the...

Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East

by Rashid Khalidi

An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments

For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the...

The Influence of the European Union on Turkish Foreign Policy

by Özlem Terzi

Rich in case studies and interviews with actors involved in policy making in Brussels, Ankara and Istanbul, this book questions the influence of the European Union on the making of Turkish foreign policy since...

Work and Leisure in the Middle East: The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds

by Robert A. Stebbins

Community involvement and leisure are rarely mentioned in mass media coverage of the Middle East and North Africa. Yet leisure and community involvement form a part of life in the region, and are becoming increasingly...

Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars

by Yaacov Lozowick

In July 2000, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused to negotiate a peace offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David. At the end of September the Palestinians then launched their second...

Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars

by Yaacov Lozowick

In July 2000, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused to negotiate a peace offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David. At the end of September the Palestinians then launched their second...

The A to Z of Iran

by John H. Lorentz

The A to Z of Iran is designed to give the reader a quick and understandable overview of specific events, movements, people, political and social groups, places, and trends. Through its extensive chronology,...

Israeli F-15 Eagle Units in Combat

by Shlomo Aloni & Chris Davey

Diplomacy, politics and national trauma has dominated the frontline career of the Israeli F-15 to date. In the wake of the losses suffered in the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israeli government opted for...

The Forts of Judaea 168 BC-AD 73: From the Maccabees to the Fall of Masada

by Samuel Rocca & Adam Hook

This book analyzes the fortifications of Hasmonaean and Herodian Judaea from the middle of the second century BC, when the Maccabees rebelled against their Seleucids overlords and established an independent...

The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: Armenian Realpolitik in the Islamic World and Diverging ParadigmsCase of Cilicia Eleventh to Fourteenth C

by Seta B. Dadoyan

In the second volume, Seta B. Dadoyan explores the Armenian condition from the 970s to the end of the fourteenth century. This period marked the gradual loss of semi-autonomy on the traditional mainland and...