Using previously unexploited sources, Philip Sadgrove provides a comprehensive account of the early history of theatre in Egypt, from the time of the French expeditionary force led by Napoleon in 1798, to the British occupation in 1882. His study looks at traditional forms of indigenous Arabic drama, the rise of European theatre, the first abortive attempts to create a modern Arabic theatre in the early 1870s and the project for a National Theatre. Finally, it tells the story of the emigre Syria...
La Chaldee, Esquisse Historique Suivie de Quelques Reflexions Sur l'Orient (Histoire)
by Martin-P
This book, originally published in 1882, is comprised of a series of letters written from the field of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The author was a correspondent of the Pioneer (the second oldest English language newspaper in India) and the only journalist to accompany the Anglo-Indian field forces on their march through Afghanistan. The letters offer a first-hand account of the war from a British perspective.
Suez 1956 (Clarendon Paperbacks)
This is an analysis, based on newly available evidence, of the Suez crisis of 1956, its origins, and its consequences. The contributors are all leading authorities, and some were active participants in the events of 1956, offering personal reflection as well as an assessment of the decisions that were made. The opening chapters trace the origins of the crisis from the British occupation of Egypt, the failure to resolve the problem of Palestine, and the Baghdad Pact of 1955 which divided the Mid...
The Recovery of Jerusalem. a Narrative of Exploration and Discovery in the City and the Holy Land. by Capt. W. ... Capt. Warren. ... with an Introduction by A. P. Stanley. Edited by W. Morrison Explorations in the Peninsula of Sinai. by F. W. Holland - War Col
by Charles William Wilson, Walter Morrison, and Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance
by Professor Shlomo Aronson
Islands of Eight Million Smiles (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by Hiroshi Aoyagi
The Distant Shrine (AMS Studies in Modern Society S., #22)
by Francis E. Peters
This work offers a serious unfolding of what Jerusalem, the holiest of holy cities, has meant to Muslims from their first settlement there, down to the beginning of modern times.
Viewing Iraq from the outside is made easier by compartmentalising its people (at least the Arabs among them) into Shi'as and Sunnis. But can such broad terms, inherently resistant to accurate quantification, description and definition, ever be a useful reflection of any society? If not, are we to discard the terms 'Shi'a' and 'Sunni' in seeking to understand Iraq? Or are we to deny their relevance and ignore them when considering Iraqi society? How are we to view the common Iraqi injunction tha...
This book tells a surprising story. Many think of Christianity as a Western faith, which grew out of its origins in the Middle East towards Rome and into Europe, paving the way for the Enlightenment, science and modernity. However, Philip Jenkins reveals, the largest and most influential churches of Christianity's youth lay to the east of Rome, covered the world from China to North Africa, encountered a full spectrum of acceptance to persecution under Islamic rule and only expired after a thousa...
At 23, Dani Shapiro had drifted far from her New Jersey roots and family. Then an accident on snowy roads left both her parents critically ill in hospital. This memoir traces Shapiro's journey back to the world she left behind, where she was faced with the task of taking care of two people who needed her desperately.
Acclaimed historian and political commentator Rashid Khalidi presents the compelling case that U.S. and Soviet intervention in the Middle East not only exacerbated civil wars and provoked the breakdown of fragile democracies, but continues to this day to shape global conflict in the region. Examining the strategic interplay of cold war superpowers, Khalidi explains how the momentous events that have occurred over the last two decades—including two Gulf wars, the occupation of Iraq, and the rise...
Assessing Living Conditions in Iraq's Anbar Province in 2009
by Audra Grant and Martin C Libicki
The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub (Worlding the Middle East)
by Jacob Norris
This is the fantastical, yet real, story of the merchants of Bethlehem, the young men who traveled to every corner of the globe in the 19th century. These men set off on the backs of donkeys with suitcases full of crosses and rosaries, to return via steamship with suitcases stuffed with French francs, Philippine pesos, or Salvadoran colones. They returned with news of mysterious lands and strange inventions—clocks, trains, and other devises that both befuddled and bewitched the Bethlehemites. Wi...
Though they are almost completely absent from the historical record, Palestinian women were extensively involved in the unfolding national struggle in their country during the British mandate period. Led primarily by urban, educated women from the middle and upper classes of Arab society, Palestinian women struggled against British colonialism and against Jewish settlement by holding a national congress, meeting with government officials, smuggling arms, demonstrating, and participating in regio...
The Ossetic Language (The Companions of Iranian Languages and Linguistics [CILL])
Ossetic is the last living descendant of the Scytho-Sarmatian group of Iranian languages. It goes back to the language of the Alans, who, in the first centuries A.D., created a kingdom in the area to the north of the Caucasus which existed until the 13-14th centuries, when it was wiped out by the Mongol and Timurid invasions. The surviving Alans fled to the highlands, where they became known to the outside world under their Georgian-based exonym “Ossetians”. Since Ossetians have long existed...
The Chora of Sagalassos (Studies in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, #5)
by H Vanhaverbeke, M. Waelkens, Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, and Marc Waelkens