Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“reeva spector simon”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “reeva spector simon”
Skip side bar filters

  • Iraq Between the Two World Wars

    The Militarist Origins of Tyranny

    by Reeva Spector Simon ...
    Why did a group from the Iraqi army seize control of the government and wage a disastrous war against Great Britain, rejecting British and liberal values for those of a militaristic Germany? What impact did these actions have on the thirty-year regime of Saddam Hussein?Departing from previous studies explaining modern Iraqi history in terms of class theory, Reeva Simon shows that cultural and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion

    Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East

    by Reeva Spector Simon, Eleanor Tejirian ...
    Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region's political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers and as the momentum of religious change shifted from Christianity to Islam and back, adding new dimensions to the history of the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921

    Edited by Reeva Spector Simon, Eleanor Tejirian ...
    Leading scholars consider Iraq's history and strategic importance from the vantage point of its residents, neighbors (Iran, Turkey, and Kurdistan), and the Great Powers. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Spies and Holy Wars

    The Middle East in 20th-Century Crime Fiction

    by Reeva Spector Simon ...
    Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundred British and American thrillers that are propelled by the theme of jihad—an Islamic holy war or crusade against the West. Published over the past century, the books in this expansive study encompass spy novels and crime fiction, illustrating new ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa

    The Impact of World War II

    by Reeva Spector Simon ...
    Incorporating published and archival material, this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II, describing how the war affected Jews living along the southern rim of the Mediterranean and the Levant, from Morocco to Iran.Surviving the Nazi slaughter did not mean that Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa were unaffected by the war: there was ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times

    Edited by Reeva Spector Simon, Michael Menachem Laskier, Sara Reguer ...
    Despite considerable research on the Jewish diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa since 1800, there has until now been no comprehensive synthesis that illuminates both the differences and commonalities in Jewish experience across a range of countries and cultures. This lacuna in both Jewish and Middle Eastern studies is due partly to the fact that in general histories of the region, Jews ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fall of the Sultanate

    The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922

    by Ryan Gingeras ...
    Series series The Greater War
    The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans and Middle East, the death throes of sultanate encompassed a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning the early twentieth century. This volume encompasses a full accounting of the political, economic, social, and international forces ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • 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 Lemon Tree

    An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

    by Sandy Tolan ...
    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST“Extraordinary … A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum … Highly readable and evocative.” – The Washington PostThe tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East – with an updated afterword by the author.In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Hashemites

    The Dream of Arabia

    by Robert McNamara ...
    Series series Makers of the Modern World
    The story of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite princes who led it during the First World War is inextricably linked in modern eyes to the legend of Lawrence of Arabia as portrayed in David Lean's 1962 film. But behind this romantic image lies a harsher reality of wartime expediency, double-dealing and dynastic ambition, which shaped the modern Middle East and laid the foundations of many of the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD