Egypt's Other Wars

Nancy Gallagher

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (Hardcover)
• Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940's killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt's Other W... Lees meer

Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn

Amira El-Zein

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (Hardcover)
• According to the Qur'an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn... Lees meer

Extremist Shiites

Matti Moosa

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (Hardcover)
• Little is known in the West about the division of the Islamic world into Shiites and Sunnites and even less about the stratification of these two grou... Lees meer

The Middle East After the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (Hardcover)
• The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982 was in many ways a turning point in Middle Eastern politics. It spurred the United States to get involved... Lees meer

Come with Me from Lebanon

Ann Zwicker Kerr, Malcolm H Kerr

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (Hardcover)
• Ann Kerr's is a personal account of an American family during the most tumultuous years of Beirut's political strife. It begins with the tragic assass... Lees meer

The Druze and their Faith in Tawhid

Anis Obeid

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (Hardcover)
• As a small sect that emerged from Islam over a thousand years ago, the Druze religion and society has long been cloaked in a tradition of secrecy. Vei... Lees meer

One Family's Response to Terrorism

Susan Kerr Van de Ven

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (Hardcover)
• On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the bac... Lees meer