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North American edition with an exclusive afterword and photographs In early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was a recent university graduate dreaming of a career as a journalist. But by the end of November, her homeland was unrecognizable—and she was...
Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : ePub
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis is the untold story of the rediscovery of the ancient City of David in Jerusalem and the powerful evidence that proves the Jewish people’s historical and indigenous connection to the Holy Land. Since the founding of...
Editeur : Center Street
Parution : 2025-05-13
Format(s) : ePub
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD | “Incredibly powerful … [The Gates of Gaza is] a rescue story, but also a reported history of the tragedy that is Israel’s Gaza policy. It helped me to understand how we got to this horrible...
Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2024-09-24
Format(s) : ePub
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This landmark volume presents vivid and intimate portraits of Palestinian Presidents Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, revealing the impact these different personalities have had on the struggle for national self-determination. Arafat and Abbas lived in Palestine as...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-11-01
Format(s) : ePub
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No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of international attention it receives, the conflict is still widely...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-04-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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"Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite Nobel Prize material" Avraham Burg, HaaretzWho is Adam Dannoun?Until a few months before his death in a fire in his New York apartment - a...
Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2018-10-11
Format(s) : ePub
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"The first childhood memory I have of my father is linked to the destruction of empires--the collapse of a world order that had once seemed eternal." So begins Avraham Burg's authoritative and deeply personal inquiry into the ambitions and failures of Israel and Judaism...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2018-01-09
Format(s) : ePub
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Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2016-08-25
Format(s) : ePub
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Anger and distrust have strained the U.S.-Israeli alliance as the Obama administration and Netanyahu government have clashed over Israeli settlements, convulsions in the Arab world, and negotiating with Iran. Our Separate Ways is an urgent examination of why the...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2016-06-07
Format(s) : ePub
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On 4 July 1187 the legendary Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter at the battle of Hattin - and went on to restore the Holy City of Jerusalem to Islamic rule.
The carnage at Hattin was the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-10-22
Format(s) : PDF
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On 4 July 1187 the legendary Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter at the battle of Hattin - and went on to restore the Holy City of Jerusalem to Islamic rule.
The carnage at Hattin was the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-10-22
Format(s) : ePub
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The Knights Templar are one of the most secretive and powerful religious orders in history: for over two centuries they were the elite fighting force of the Crusades. Highly trained, and adhering to a strict chivalric code, their success on the battlefield brought them...
Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2013-08-29
Format(s) : ePub
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History of South Lebanon, from the end of the 19e Century to 2004. Also «Diane et Jean» a drama that influenced Wajdi Mouawad.
Editeur : Les Éditions Sémaphore
Parution : 2013-06-10
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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On March 21, 1968, Yasir Arafat and his guerrillas made the fateful decision to break with conventional guerrilla tactics, choosing to stand and fight an Israeli attack on the al-Karama refugee camp in Jordan. They suffered terrible casualties, but they won a stunning...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-10-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Lords of the Land tells the tragic story of Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of the 1967 war and Israel's devastating victory over its Arab neighbors, catastrophe struck both the soul and psyche of the state of Israel. Based on years...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2009-06-09
Format(s) : ePub
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The Modern Middle East is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include official and private archives, the periodical press, memoirs, western journalists' and travellers' accounts, literature, and official reports...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-04-06
Format(s) : PDF
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Israel is a modern state whose institutions were clearly shaped by an ideological movement. The declaration of independence in 1948 was an immediate expression of the fundamental Zionist idea: it gave effect to a plan advocated by organized Zionists since the 1880s for...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1998-06-11
Format(s) : PDF
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Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine prior to the founding of the State of Israel forms one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of Zionism and modern Jewish history. Bringing Jews from Europe to Palestine by land and by sea in defiance of restrictive...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1991-02-21
Format(s) : PDF
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Israel is the only new state among the twenty-one countries in the world today that have maintained democracy without interruption since the end of the Second World War. Israel's case is all the more notable because its democracy was established under extremely adverse...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1990-03-29
Format(s) : PDF
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