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Category : Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Author: Laura Etheredge Assistant Editor, Middle East Geography
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615303154
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Explores the history of the region, explains how it has changed over time, and discusses the future of the area.

Author: P R Kumaraswamy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442251700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 629

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Competing Jewish and Arab national claims over the Holy Land form the core of the Arab–Israeli conflict, thereby transforming it into the most intensely-fought struggles in the history of humanity. The conflict evokes unparalleled passion and hostility not only among its immediate participants and neighbors but also in the wider international community. The involvement of three principal monotheistic religions makes the conflict a truly universal contestation. As a result, it often contributes to bouts of violence, turmoil and terrorism in the Middle East and beyond. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries important events, key personalities, official positions of principal states and the UN and other efforts to find a peaceful settlement.. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this conflict.

Author: Laura Etheredge Assistant Editor, Middle East Geography
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615303251
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Explains the history, politics, and culture of Egypt and examines the geography of the country.

Author: Laura Etheredge Assistant Editor, Middle East Geography
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615303278
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Describes the geography, economy, government, society, cultural life, and history of the Persian Gulf states, including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates.

Author: Laura Etheredge Assistant Editor, Middle East Geography
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615303359
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Examines the culture, politics, economy, geography, and history of both Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Author: Laura Etheredge Assistant Editor, Middle East Geography
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615303081
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Examines the culture, politics, and history of Iran and describes the geography of the country.

Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1615304142
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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While each country’s centrality to the future of Middle East politics and strategy remains unequivocal, the social and cultural traditions of Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan reveal a robust blend of Mediterranean and Arab influences. Home to diverse populations who have experienced centuries of exposure to an array of influences, each country boasts ancient monuments that testify to its ability to withstand conflict and absorb various peoples and ideas. This rich volume profiles the intertwined histories of these three countries and the geographic, economic, and social factors that have come to define each.

Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848137036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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In 1993 luminaries from around the world signed the 'Oslo Accords' - a pledge to achieve lasting peace in the Holy Land - on the lawn of the White House. Yet things didn't turn out quite as planned. With over 1, 000 Israelis and close to four times that number of Palestinians killed since 2000, the Oslo process is now considered 'history'. Impossible Peace provides one of the first comprehensive analyses of that history. Mark LeVine argues that Oslo was never going to bring peace or justice to Palestinians or Israelis. He claims that the accords collapsed not because of a failure to live up to the agreements; but precisely because of the terms of and ideologies underlying the agreements. Today more than ever before, it's crucial to understand why these failures happened and how they will impact on future negotiations towards the 'final status agreement'. This fresh and honest account of the peace process in the Middle East shows how by learning from history it may be possible to avoid the errors that have long doomed peace in the region.

Author: Ilan Pappe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1780740565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471

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The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger) Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel. 'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' NEW STATESMAN Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called 'ethnic cleansing'. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East. *** 'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' JOHN PILGER 'Pappe has opened up an important new line of inquiry into the vast and fateful subject of the Palestinian refugees. His book is rewarding in other ways. It has at times an elegiac, even sentimental, character, recalling the lost, obliterated life of the Palestinian Arabs and imagining or regretting what Pappe believes could have been a better land of Palestine.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A major intervention in an argument that will, and must, continue. There's no hope of lasting Middle East peace while the ghosts of 1948 still walk.' INDEPENDENT