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Sports, Politics and Society In the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781787381520, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
296 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sport in the Middle East has become a major issue in global affairs. The contributors to this timely volume discuss the intersection of political and cultural processes related to sport in the region. Eleven chapters trace the...
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£25,00
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Struggle for Iraq A View from the Ground Up
ISBN: HB: 9781612348827, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Struggle for Iraq" is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people's fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003; lat...
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£28,00
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Red Star and the Crescent China and the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849048217, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Red Star and the Crescent" provides an in-depth and multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolving relationship between China and the Middle East. Despite its increasing importance, very few studies have examined this dynamic...
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£25,00
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Qatar Securing the Global Ambitions of a City-State
ISBN: HB: 9781849043250, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Rarely has a state changed its character so completely in so short a period of time. Previously content to play a role befitting its small size, Qatar was a traditional, risk-averse Gulf monarchy until the early 1990s. A blood...
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£30,00
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Tribes and States in a Changing Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781849043458, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! At the outset of the twenty-first century and in the midst of the Arab Spring, tribe-state relations are a useful frame of reference through which to analyse the Middle East on a state-by-state basis. "Tribes and States in a Ch...
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£45,00
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Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9780300140903, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impac...
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£30,00
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Bride and the Dowry Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
ISBN: PB: 9780300198508, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its...
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£39,00
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Aiding Afghanistan A History of Soviet Assistance to a Developing Country
ISBN: HB: 9781849042390, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For close to sixty years Afghanistan was one of the largest recipients of foreign development aid and yet it remains one of the poorest countries on the planet. The Soviet Union pro- vided Afghanistan with large-scale economic...
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Israel An Introduction
ISBN: PB: 9780300162301, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 86 black&white illus.
This comprehensive book provides a well-rounded introduction to Israel – a definitive account of the nation's past, its often controversial present, and much more. Edited by a leading historian of the Middle East, "Israel" is organized around six maj...
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£29,00
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Israel in the Middle East Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780874519624, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2007
650 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This timely anthology, completely revised and updated from the original edition in 1984, provides convenient access to the most significant documents of the Zionist movement since 1882 and of Israel's domestic and foreign policy issues between 1948 a...
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£36,00
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