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More Than a Doctrine The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781612349978, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map
Given on January 5, 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine Address forever changed America's relationship with the Middle East. Announcing that "a greater responsibility now devolves upon the United States" in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, President Eisen...
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£28,00
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Bibi The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu
ISBN: HB: 9781849049887, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment; yet he continues to dominate Israeli public life. How can we explain his rise, his hold on Israeli politics, and his outsized role on the world...
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£20,00
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Boko Haram Reader From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State
ISBN: PB: 9781849048842, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if an...
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£25,00
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Digital Middle East State and Society in the Information Age
ISBN: PB: 9781849049054, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In recent years, the Middle East's information and communications landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalising on the opportunities offered by new information technologies,...
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£25,00
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Merchant of Syria A History of Survival
ISBN: HB: 9781849049405, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
364 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Barely literate, and supporting his mother and sisters from the age of ten, Abu Chaker built up a business empire – despite twice losing everything he had. Diana Darke follows his tumultuous journey, from instability in Syria a...
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£20,00
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Poisoned Well Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849049542, ISBN: HB: 9781849046398, Hurst Publishers, March 2018
288 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! The conflicts and crises of today's Middle East are rooted in the colonial era. To understand them, we need to grasp how Western imperialism shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between 1917 and 1967. That is t...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Other Middle East An Anthology of Modern Levantine Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780300204445, Yale University Press, February 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This unique literary collection offers a window on the contemporary Levant, a region comprising most of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, parts of southern Turkey and northwestern Iraq, and the Sinai Peninsula. Originally written in...
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£45,00
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First Jihad Khartoum, and the Dawn of Militant Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781612005935, Casemate, February 2018
256 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 pages of black&white illus.
The First Jihad tells the story of Muhammad Ahmad, a Muslim religious leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and the uprising he led against British and Egyptian forces in the late nineteenth century. In 1881, Ahmad declared himself the Mahdi – the "Expec...
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£9,00
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Salman's Legacy The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia
ISBN: HB: 9781849049658, Hurst Publishers, February 2018
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! King Salman of Saudi Arabia began his rule in 2015 confronted with a series of unprecedented challenges. The dilemmas he has faced are new and significant, from leadership shuffles and falling oil prices to regional and interna...
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£35,00
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Quicksilver War Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9781849048682, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
240 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Quicksilver War" is a panoramic political history of the wars that coursed through Syria and Iraq in the wake of the "Arab Spring" and eventually merged to become a regional catastrophe: a kaleidoscopic and constantly shifting...
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