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  • The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East

    by Michael Provence ...
    The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a charged and transformative time of unrest. Insurgent leaders, trained in Ottoman military tactics and with everything to lose from the fall of the Empire, challenged the mandatory powers in a number of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism

    by Michael Provence ...
    Series Book 22 - CMES Modern Middle East Series
    A historical study of the 1925 revolt against French rule in Syria, and how it established a new popular nationalism that helped shape the Middle East.The Great Syrian Revolt of 1925 was the first mass movement against colonial rule in the Middle East. Mobilizing peasants, workers, and army veterans, it was also the region's largest and longest-lasting anti-colonial insurgency during the inter-war ... Read more

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  • The Arabs

    A History

    by Eugene Rogan ...
    The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Atlantic -- now updated to cover the latest developments in the Middle EastIn this groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The History of Saudi Arabia

    by A M Vasilev ...
    How has Saudi Arabia managed to maintain its Arab and Islamic values while at the same time adopting Western technology and a market economy? How have its hereditary leaders, who govern with a mixture of political pragmatism and religious zeal, managed to maintain their power? This comprehensive history of Saudi Arabia from 1745 to the present provides insight into its culture and politics, its ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Syria

    A History of the Last Hundred Years

    by John McHugo ...
    "A fluent introduction to Syria's recent past, this book provides the backstory to the country's collapse into brutal civil conflict" (Andrew Arsan, author of Lebanon: A Country in Fragments).The fall of Syria into civil war over the past two years has spawned a regional crisis with reverberations growing louder in each passing month. In this timely account, John McHugo seeks to contextualize the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 1967 Arab-Israeli War

    Origins and Consequences

    Edited by Wm Roger Louis, Avi Shlaim ...
    Series Book 36 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    The June 1967 war was a watershed in the history of the modern Middle East. In six days, the Israelis defeated the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies, seizing large portions of their territories. Two veteran scholars of the Middle East bring together some of the most knowledgeable experts in their fields to reassess the origins and the legacies of the war. Each chapter takes a different ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

    The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historical Liberal-Islamic Alliance

    by Elizabeth F. Thompson ...
    "This expertly researched account brings to life a meaningful but underexplored chapter in world history." — Publishers WeeklyWhen Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against the Turks. The British supported the Arabs' fight for an independent state and sent an intelligence officer, T.E. Lawrence, to join Prince Faisal, leader of the Arab army and a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The PKK

    Coming Down from the Mountains

    by Doctor Paul White ...
    Series series Rebels
    The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is infamous for its violence. The struggle it has waged for Kurdish independence in southeastern Turkey has cost in excess of 40,000 lives since 1984. A less-known fact, however, is that the PKK now embraces a non-violent end to the conflict, with its leader Abdullah Öcalan having ordered a ceasefire and engaging in a negotiated peace with the Ankara government. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Kurds

    A Nation on the Way to Statehood

    by Jamal Jalal Abdulla ...
    The book is about the history and national movement and nationalism of the Kurdish nation who were divided by the victorious Allied Powers, Britain and France, in the first World War 1918. The Kurds and their country, Kurdistan were divided between Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. For about one century, Kurds have not earned their cultural and political rights. However, only Kurds in Iraq obtained ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Ottoman Scramble for Africa

    Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz

    by Mostafa Minawi ...
    The Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism. Following key representatives of the sultan on their travels across Europe, Africa, and Arabia at the close of the nineteenth century, it takes the reader from Istanbul to Berlin, from Benghazi to Lake Chad Basin to the Hijaz, and then back to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Baloch Conflict with Iran and Pakistan

    Aspects of a National Liberation Struggle

    by Naseer Dashti ...
    The book is about history of the Baloch conflict with Iran and Pakistan. The work describes and analyzes, from the very beginning, the protracted and bloody struggle of the Baloch against Iran and Pakistan. It is an attempt to answer some of the pertinent questions regarding the background and contextual factors of this long-drawn conflict. The book analyzes the strength and weaknesses of opposing ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • From Deep State to Islamic State

    The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy

    by Jean-Pierre Filiu ...
    In his disturbing and timely book Jean-Pierre Filiu lays bare the strategies and tactics employed by the Middle Eastern autocracies, above all those of Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Algeria, that set out to crush the democratic uprisings of the 'Arab Revolution.' In pursuit of these goals they turned to the intelligence agencies and internal security arms of the 'deep state,' the armed forces, and to ... Read more

    $16.19 USD