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Examines how negotiations between the Ottomans and Arab nomads played a part in the making of the modern Middle East.
Author : M. Talha Çiçek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1316518086
Examines how negotiations between the Ottomans and Arab nomads played a part in the making of the modern Middle East.
Author : Ismail Fahmy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135094152
Ismail Fahmy was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Premier of Egypt, but resigned in protest against President Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem in 1977. This book, published in 1983, presents the first portrait of Sadat from within the Arab ruling elite, and gives unique coverage of the crucial negotiations that took place between Arab leaders, which determined the key events during this period. Fahmy vividly recounts the years when prospects for a permanent peace in the Middle East seemed a real possibility and presents a damning portrayal of the roles that Kissinger, Nixon and Carter played in events. This is a fascinating account of the struggle for peace in the Middle East, written from the unique perspective of a hugely influential contemporary at the heart of the dialogue.
Author : Efraim Karsh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
Release : 2001-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0674254767
Empires of the Sand offers a bold and comprehensive reinterpretation of the struggle for mastery in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century (1789-1923). This book denies primacy to Western imperialism in the restructuring of the region and attributes equal responsibility to regional powers. Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the authors argue that the main impetus for the developments of this momentous period came from the local actors. Ottoman and Western imperial powers alike are implicated in a delicate balancing act of manipulation and intrigue in which they sought to exploit regional and world affairs to their greatest advantage. Backed by a wealth of archival sources, the authors refute the standard belief that Europe was responsible for the destruction of the Ottoman Empire and the region's political unity. Instead, they show how the Hashemites played a decisive role in shaping present Middle Eastern boundaries and in hastening the collapse of Ottoman rule. Similarly, local states and regimes had few qualms about seeking support and protection from the "infidel" powers they had vilified whenever their interests so required. Karsh and Karsh see a pattern of pragmatic cooperation and conflict between the Middle East and the West during the past two centuries, rather than a "clash of civilizations." Such a vision affords daringly new ways of viewing the Middle East's past as well as its volatile present.
Author : Arie Marcelo Kacowicz
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807002346
Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the region, Khalidi examines the record of Western involvement in the Middle East and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent incursions.
Author : Lloyd C. Gardner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2011-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1459617754
Three Kings reveals a story of America's scramble for political influence, oil concessions, and a new military presence based on airpower and generous American aid to shaky regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and Iraq. Marshaling new and revelatory evidence from the archives, Lloyd Gardner deftly weaves together three decades of U.S. moves in the region to offer the first history of America's efforts to supplant the British empire in the Middle East. From the early efforts to support and influence the Saudi regime (including the creation of Dhahranairbase, the target of Osama bin Laden's first terrorist attack in 1996) and the CIA-engineered coup in Iran to Nasser's Egypt and, finally, the rise of Iraq as a major petroleum power, Three Kings is ''a valuable contribution to our understanding of our still-deepening involvement in this region'' (Booklist).As American policy makers and military planners grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, Gardner uncovers the largely hidden story of how the United States got into the Middle East in the first place.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Glen Balfour-Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 1994-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521466363
An original and perceptive study of Britain's withdrawal from her last Arab dependencies - the Sudan, South West Arabia and the Gulf States.
Author : Barbara Kellerman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1988-11-02
Category : History
ISBN :
This volume takes as its central organizing principle the thesis that national leaders are generally the key actors in international politics and conflict management. Therefore efforts to contain, manage, and reduce international conflicts through negotiation will be significantly enhanced through the availability of detailed information about the leading players. These essays evaluate this hypothesis through a detailed analysis of the major national leaders during the events of June-September 1982 in Lebanon, which began with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and culminated in the establishment of an international peace-keeping force in West Beirut.
Author : Rebekka Habermas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1789201527
With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms. However, religion and religious actors actually played crucial roles in the history of the Kaiserreich, a fact that becomes particularly evident when viewed through a transnational lens. In this volume, leading scholars of sociology, religious studies, and history study the interplay of secular and religious worldviews beyond the simple interrelation of practices and ideas. By exploring secular perspectives, belief systems, and rituals in a transnational context, they provide new ways of understanding how the borders between Imperial Germany’s secular and religious spheres were continually made and remade.