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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A longtime American foreign policy insider's biting and definitive reckoning with the high cost of this country's ambitious meddling in the Middle East--and its bitter end. The culmination of almost 40 years of expertise and insider policy access, Grand Delusion is Steven Simon's tour de force, offering a comprehensive yet analytical tour of U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Simon begins with the Reagan administration, when the Middle East shifted...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""[Kaufman] tells the story brilliantly. Anyone interested in the Middle East or military history will appreciate Kaufman's work." --Senator Joseph I. Lieberman "A stimulating and insightful...will no doubt find a permanent place on the Arab-Israeli bookshelf." --Michael Oren, New York Times bestselling author of Six Days of War October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The War was...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
No other single factor has impacted the economy, politics, and social life of the Middle East as profoundly as oil. Trace the 20th-century discovery of petroleum across the region by foreign oil companies, and observe the ensuing geopolitical conflicts with local governments. Consider what became known as the Middle East’s "oil curse.”
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors"--
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Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive history of America's involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. Drawing on thousands of government documents and personal letters, Power, Faith, and Fantasy reconstructs the diverse and remarkable ways in which Americans have interacted with this alluring yet often hostile land.
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Publisher
Capstone Press a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In today's uncertain world, many families are leaving their home countries and seeking a better life in the United States. Immigrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East explores the stories of two families who left their home countries to find a better life in the United States. Follow their journeys to find out why they left their homelands and understand the challenges they faced in moving to a new country.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Drawing on confidential sources in Mossad, Israel's equivalent to our CIA, Bob and Evyatar, reporters for The Jerusalem Post, tell the remarkable story behind the most stunning development in the Middle East in recent years: the Abraham Accords that normalized relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. They show how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar -- and diplomacy -- to forge a new Middle East, uniting Israel...
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English
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An astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East Between 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict, of course, is World War I-a story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history of what he calls the "wars of the Ottoman...
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Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"The hospital is one of the most important innovations in all of human history. Without these establishments of healing, the marvels of modern medicine would never have evolved to where they are today. Readers of this unique book will explore the origins of the hospital and other incredible inventions from the Middle East that have shaped the world forever. Beautiful full-color photographs let readers get a close-up look at amazing inventions. Cool...
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Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers the Middle East since World War II. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments.
Series
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers the Middle East since World War II. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments.
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Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Middle East is a region lush in its vegetation, a gift to the non-meat-eater. Much of the cuisine is naturally plant-based, with a lot of the flavor of recipes coming from the herbs, spices, cooking methods, and sheer joie de cuisine traditional to Middle Eastern dining. Vegan diets can often be dismissed as lacking in certain nutrients, but there is no doubt that one thing a Middle Eastern kitchen teaches us is balance: every dish from a traditional...
14) The Middle East
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
From the birth of Christianity to the modern era, renowned historian and Princeton professor Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East. Elegantly written and accessible, this comprehensive volume paints a varied and intriguing portrait of a region steeped in traditionalism even while geography and politics force change upon it. With wit and gravity, sympathy and objectivity, the author explores the cultural currents that for 2,000 years...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian...
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Language
English
Description
If, like Kane, you're a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again--by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide--and when to shoot. But some places don't play by the rules. Some places are too dangerous, even for a man of Kane's experience. The badlands where the borders of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan meet are such a place--a place...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades-despite never achieving the far-reaching aims of its proponents-and how it's finally time to forge a new path forward. "Must reading-by someone who saw it first-hand--for all interested in America's foreign policy and its place in the world." -Robin Wright Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments...
19) Executive power
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
CIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power -- another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the political thriller. Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race, he was publicly hailed by the president as the single most important person in the fight...
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Discover Sheherazade, the famous storyteller, dive into the musical world of the beautiful singer Fairuz and meet Amal Clooney, an outstanding international lawyer. Feel inspired by twenty-five amazing women from the Middle East, who have created a legacy through strength of vision, leadership, courage, and determination. Written by Wafa Tarnowska, this collection of life stories is illustrated by a team of international artists."-- adapted from...
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