Histoire / Histoire par pays / Moyen Orient

The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved

de Alan Dershowitz

In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine-and explains how to move around them and push the process forward. From the division of Jerusalem...

The Promise of Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness Is Actually Its Greatest Strength

de Daniel Gordis

Why Israel's greatest weakness is its greatest strength, and what its supporters and enemies can learn from its success

Israel's critics in the West insist that no country founded on a single religion or culture...

Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End

de Daniel Gordis

Is Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future?

The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis...

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

de Stephen Kinzer

This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953-a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based...

Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire

de Selcuk Aksin Somel

Here you will find an in-depth treatise covering the political social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one...

The Case Against Israel's Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace

de Alan Dershowitz

The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Israel takes on the greatest threats faced by Israel today

In addition to Hamas, which provoked the recent war and Gaza with its rocket attacks on Israeli...

Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement

de Beverley Milton-Edwards & Stephen Farrell

Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East.

How did Hamas grow to be so powerful? Who supports it?...

The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey

de Fouad Ajami

From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the...

Clash of Eagles: America's Forgotten Expedition to Ottoman Palestine

de Carol Lea Clark

The gripping, forgotten story of America’s first foray into the Middle East, in which, traversing a backwater of a dying empire, Lt. William Lynch forged alliances with a Bedouin sheik and a Hashemite sharif,...

One Palestine, Complete

de Tom Segev & Haim Watzman

A panoramic and provocative history of life in Palestine during the three strife-torn but romantic decades when Britain ruled and the seeds of today's conflicts were sown

Tom Segev's acclaimed works, 1949 and...

A History of the Modern Middle East

de William L Cleveland & Martin Bunton

 This definitive history of the modern Middle East includes significant new material covering major transformative developments over the past four years.

Istanbul: A Cultural History

de Peter Clark

Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: these are only three names that have been given to the city that straddles two continents, was the capital of two multinational empires and is today a vibrant commercial...

Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise

de Akbar S. Ahmed

Can West and East ever understand each other? In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading Muslim scholars explores an area which has which has been almost entirely neglected by scholars in the field...

Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel: The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation

de Riad M. Nasser

The book examines the process of national identity formation. It argues that identity, whether of a small community, a nation, an ethnic group, or a religious community, requires an Other against whom it becomes...

Islam and Political Legitimacy

de Shahram Akbarzadeh & Abdullah Saeed

Akbarzadeh and Saeed explore one of the most challenging issues facing the Muslim world: the Islamisation of political power. They present a comparative analysis of Muslim societies in West, South, Central and...

Jews of Ethiopia

de Tudor Parfitt & Emanuela Trevisan Semi

This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on Europe and the role played by German, English and Italian...

Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus: Alternative Visions of the Conflict Between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830-1859

de Gary Hamburg, Thomas Sanders & Ernest Tucker

This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain war between the Muslim...

Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus: 'Abd Al-Ghani Al-Nabulusi, 1641-1731

de Elizabeth Sirriyeh

'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641 to1731) was the most outstanding scholarly Sufi of Ottoman Syria. He was regarded as the leading religious poet of his time and as an excellent commentator of classical Sufi texts....

Don Juan of Persia: A Shi'ah Catholic 1560-1604

de G. Le Strange

First published in 1926. Don Juan was a Persian Moslem who became a Spanish Roman Catholic. His description of Persia and his account of the wars waged by the Persians during the sixteenth century considerably...

Resistance and Control in Pakistan

de Akbar S. Ahmed

How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world? Is Islamic fundamentalism to be understood purely in religious terms?

In Resistance and Control in Pakistan, one of the world's...