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  • Friendly Fire

    How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future

    Series series Truth to Power
    FINALIST -- The National Jewish Book AwardIn this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspective from Palestinians and Israelis whose experiences differ from his own. As head of the Shin Bet security agency, he gained empathy for "the enemy" and learned that when Israel carries out anti-terrorist operations in a political context of hopelessness, the Palestinian ... Read more

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  • Reading Palestine

    Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948

    by Ami Ayalon ...
    Prior to the twentieth century, Arab society in Palestine was predominantly illiterate, with most social and political activities conducted through oral communication. There were no printing presses, no book or periodical production, and no written signs in public places. But a groundswell of change rapidly raised the region's literacy rates, a fascinating transformation explored for the first ... Read more

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  • The Arabic Print Revolution

    Cultural Production and Mass Readership

    by Ami Ayalon ...
    In a brief historic moment, printing presses, publishing ventures, a periodical press, circulation networks, and a mass readership came into being all at once in the Middle East, where none had previously existed, with ramifications in every sphere of the community's life. Among other outcomes, this significant change facilitated the cultural and literary movement known as the Arab 'nahda' ( ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xv: 1991

    by Ami Ayalon ...
    This is the fifteenth volume in a series that provides up-to-date summation and evaluation of the rapidly changing events in an exceptionally complex region of the world. This volume covers the period January through December 1991 and offers in-depth analysis of the Gulf War, the U.S.-inspired peace negotiations, the surge of Islamic sentiment in a number of countries, and inter-Arab relations in ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xvi, 1992

    by Ami Ayalon ...
    A number of contributors explore contemporary Middle East countries and look at how and if, they have moved forward. It looks at the rise of religious extremists and the Arab-Israeli peace process, stimulated by the change of government in Israel. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xiv: 1990

    by Ami Ayalon ...
    This annual record of political developments in the Middle East is designed as a continuing, up-to-date reference for scholars, researchers and analysts, policy-makers, students and journalists. It examines in detail the rapidly-changing Middle-Eastern scene in all its complexity. This volume covers the eruption of the Gulf crisis and the war that had dramatic effects on all the countries of the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xii, 1988

    Edited by Ami Ayalon ...
    A unique annual record of political developments in the Middle East, the Middle East Contemporary Survey (MECS) is acknowledged as the standard reference work on events and trends in the region. Designed to be a continuing, up-to-date reference for scholars, researchers and analysts, policymakers, students, and journalists, it examines in detail the rapidly changing Middle Eastern scene in all its ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Mamluks and Ottomans

    Studies in Honour of Michael Winter

    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History
    Focusing on Near Eastern history in Mamluk and Ottoman times, this book, dedicated to Michael Winter, stresses elements of variety and continuity in the history of the Near East, an area of study which has traditionally attracted little attention from Islamists.Ranging over the period from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, the articles in this book look at the area from Istanbul down ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Friendly Fire

    How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future

    by Ami Ayalon ...
    Narrated by Rich Miller ...
    Series series Truth to Power

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    FINALIST -- The National Jewish Book AwardIn this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspective from Palestinians and Israelis whose experiences differ from his own. As head of the Shin Bet security agency, he gained empathy for "the enemy" and learned that when Israel carries out anti-terrorist operations in a political context of hopelessness, the Palestinian ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads

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  • Syria

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