Category: Middle East

By Trish Wood

"A visceral account of the battle . . . sincere, agenda-free, and chilling." -<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place> instances ebook Review

The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> struggle formally all started on March 20, 2003, and because then multiple million younger americans have turned around during the country's insurgent-infested scorching spots. yet even if tales of dramatic ambushes and assaults dominate front pages of newspapers, so much folks don't actually understand what the struggle is like for the americans who struggle it.

What was once requested of Us is helping us bridge that hole. The in-depth and extremely probing interviews this ebook brings jointly rfile the soldiers' reviews and darkest secrets and techniques, supplying a mess of actual, unfiltered voices - from time to time uncooked and emotional, at different occasions eloquent and lyrical. those voices stroll us in the course of the conflict, from the winning push to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:City>, in the course of the misguided "Mission Accomplished" second, and into the harmful, murky present.

"Monumental. . . . Amid the glut of coverage debates, and amid the flurry of stories studies that upload names every day to the lists of the lifeless, Trish wooden has produced what's might be, up to now, the single textual content approximately Iraq that matter."- San Francisco Chronicle

"An illuminating glimpse of yank fighters' stories in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. . . . There are moments of wierd attractiveness within the soldiers' recollections." -<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City> Tribune

"Stunning . . . chillingly eloquent. . . . strong and unflinchingly sincere, Wood's e-book merits to be a bestseller." -People

By Jo Tatchell

By David S. Katz

This publication is ready the primary writings that formed the conception of Turkey for expert readers in English, from Edward Gibbon’s positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has regularly been part of the trendy British and eu event. it's a nice sweep of a narrative: from Gibbon as usual textbook, via Lord Bryon the pro-Turkish poet, and Benjamin Disraeli the Romantic novelist of all issues japanese, by way of John Buchan's Greenmantle First international conflict espionage fantasies, after which Manchester Guardian reporter Arnold Toynbee narrating the struggle for Turkish independence.

By Melisa Carr Ashkenazi

By Jonathan Randal

By Peter J. Chelkowski, Robert J. Pranger

By Marcia Lusted

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By Lisa Wedeen

In Syria, a dead ringer for President Hafiz al-Asad is all over the place. In newspapers, on tv, and through orchestrated spectacles Asad is praised because the "father," the "gallant knight," even the country's "premier pharmacist." but such a lot Syrians, together with those that create the legit rhetoric, don't think its claims. Why may a regime spend scarce assets on a cult whose content material is patently spurious?

Wedeen concludes that Asad's cult acts as a disciplinary equipment, producing a politics of public dissimulation during which electorate act as if they respected their chief. by way of inundating everyday life with drained symbolism, the regime workouts a sophisticated, but powerful type of strength. The cult works to implement obedience, set off complicity, isolate Syrians from each other, and set instructions for public speech and behaviour. Wedeen's ethnographic learn demonstrates how Syrians realize the disciplinary elements of the cult and search to undermine them. Provocative and unique, Ambiguities of Domination is an important contribution to comparative politics, political conception, and cultural studies.

By Efraim Karsh

Bringing jointly Israeli, American and eu experts from the fields of heart East heritage, diplomacy, technique and economics, this e-book bargains a complete "post bellum" research of the effect and implications of the Iran-Iraq battle. The ebook starts off with an exam of the war's effect at the household and international affairs of the 2 belligerents, keeps with a dialogue of the political ramifications of the struggle in either the neighborhood and the worldwide spheres, and concludes through studying the commercial, army and strategic implications.

By Hugh Kennedy

The Armies of the Caliphs is the 1st significant research of the connection among military and society within the early Islamic interval, and divulges the pivotal function of the army in politics. via a thorough examination of recruitment, fee, weaponry and fortifications within the armies, The Armies of the Caliphs deals the main finished view so far of the way the early Muslim Empire grew to regulate such a lot of humans. utilizing Arabic chronicles, surviving files, and archaeological proof, this e-book analyzes the army and the face of conflict, and gives a well timed reassessment of the early Islamic nation.