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  • Shadow Wars

    The Secret Struggle for the Middle East

    by Christopher Davidson ...
    For more than a century successive US and UK governments have sought to thwart nationalist, socialist and pro-democracy movements in the Middle East. Through the Cold War, the ‘War on Terror’ and the present era defined by the Islamic State, the Western powers have repeatedly manipulated the region’s most powerful actors to ensure the security of their own interests and, in doing so, have given ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Higher Education in the Gulf States

    Shaping Economies, Politics and Culture

    Edited by Christopher Davidson, Peter Mackenzie Smith ...
    Series Book 7 - SOAS Middle East Issues S.
    Nowhere in the world is university education expanding as rapidly as in the six-member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council. In two generations the region has gone from having the Middle East's least educated population to boasting a younger generation whose educational achievements are approaching Oraginisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) standards. This unique study, with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After the Sheikhs

    The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

    by Christopher Davidson ...
    The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful modernising and globalising forces impacting on their largely conservative societies, they have ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Man Who Snorted The World

    by Christopher Davidson ...
    The Man Who Snorted The World is the darkly comic tale of Chester, a lost, tired and broken man, whose shut-in world is transformed by a mysterious package from an old friend, the charismatic and crazy Jimmy. Its contents are a letter and a small bag of powder. Failing to heed the warning and resist the temptation, with his life in crisis, he snorts a line of the unknown substance. Its power is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

    The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

    by Christopher Davidson ...
    The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful modernising and globalising forces impacting on their largely conservative societies, they have ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Environmental Burden of Disease Assessment

    by Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson, Angela Brammer, Christopher Davidson, Tiina Folley, Frederic Launay, Jens Thomsen ...
    Series series Environmental Science and Technology Library
    This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards. The robust methods used in this risk analysis can be applied to any country or region. This publication documents the systematic, multi-step process used to identify environmental ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    America and the Future of Terror

    by Karen Hughes, James A. Baker III ...
    Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in American history—an enemy who brought the United States what President George W. Bush called “a day of fire,” and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a nighttime raid at the end of a dirt road in Pakistan, the hunt for Bin Laden ended with a gunshot. It was a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Dubai

    Gilded Cage

    by Syed Ali ...
    This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. With astonishing skyscrapers and tax-free incomes, its rulers have made Dubai into a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Woman Among Warlords

    The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice

    by Malalai Joya ...
    Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug ... Read more

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  • The Arab Spring and the Gulf States

    Time to embrace change

    by Mohamed Althani ...
    The most challenging question today for the citizens of any country in the Gulf region is whether it is heading in the right direction to become a durable, sustainable system, fully supported by its people and capable of being defended from internal and external threats. In The Arab Spring and the Gulf States, Mohamed A. J. Althani, a former minister in the Qatari government, analyses the ... Read more

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  • In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan

    America's War in Afghanistan

    by Seth G. Jones ...
    “How we got to where we are in Afghanistan.”—Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street JournalThis definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan “[zeroes] in on what went awry after America’s successful routing of the Taliban in late 2001” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) to explain how a growing sanctuary for insurgents in Pakistan and a collapsing government in Kabul catalyzed the Taliban ... Read more

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  • Qatar

    Small State, Big Politics

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in this knowledgeable and incisive account of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD