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“nicolas pelham”

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  • A History of the Middle East

    Fifth Edition

    by Peter Mansfield, Nicolas Pelham ...
    **The definitive history of the Middle East that provides the historical context to today's headlines - now in its fifth edition"The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab World." -The Washington Post**One of the most crucial, volatile, and complex regions of the modern world, the Middle East has long confounded the dreams of conquerors and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Holy Lands

    Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East

    by Nicolas Pelham ...
    How did the world’s most tolerant region become the least harmonious place on the planet?The news from the Middle East these days is bad. Whatever hopes people may have for the region are being dashed over and over, in country after country. Nicolas Pelham, a veteran correspondent for The Economist, has seen much of the tragedy first hand, but in Holy Lands he presents a strikingly original and ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Understanding Iran

    Everything You Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Khamenei

    by William R. Polk ...
    "A digestible history of this tortured land is something Americans sorely need. . . . Polk carefully constructs one." ― USA TodayWilliam R. Polk provides an informative, readable history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East. A former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, Polk describes a country and a history ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Second Edition

    by Ahmed Rashid ...

    $12.99 USD

  • Understand the Middle East (since 1945): Teach Yourself

    by Stewart Ross ...
    Understand the Middle East (since 1945)is an essential guide to one of the world's most turbulent regions. It examines the origins and development of the events which have dominated the headlines for the last six decades. Covering everything from religion and politics in the aftermath of the Second World War to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, war in Iraq and the terrorism of the present day it ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

    $18.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saddam Hussein

    A Political Biography

    by Efraim Karsh, Inari Rautsi ...
    "Probably the best biography of Saddam Hussein…[it] presents a coherent view of a man who has generated a good deal of mythology" (Roger Hardy, BBC World Service).Authors Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, experts on Middle East history and politics, have combined their expertise to write what is largely considered the definitive work on Iraq's fifth president. Drawing on a wealth of Iraqi, Arab, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Iraq

    The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation

    by William R. Polk ...

    $14.99 USD

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  • Pakistan

    A Hard Country

    by Anatol Lieven ...
    **A sophisticated look at Pakistan—one of the most overlooked, yet vastly consequential, countries of modern times“Lieven’s eye for detail, command of subcontinental history and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting make this in many ways an excellent primer on Pakistan.” —Wall Street JournalNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Daily Telegraph and The Independent**Since Pakistan’s formation as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lebanon

    A History, 600 - 2011

    by William Harris ...
    Series series Studies in Middle Eastern History
    In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from their origins between the sixth and eleventh centuries. The identities of Maronite Christians, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • A History of Iraq

    by Charles Tripp ...
    To understand Iraq, Charles Tripp's history is the book to read. Since its first appearance in 2000, it has become a classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by students, soldiers, policymakers and journalists. The book is now updated to include the recent American invasion, the fall and capture of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent descent into civil strife. What is clear is ... Read more

    $31.99 USD