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'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in ...
"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."-Robert Fisk, The Independent
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A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920
"An epic account of the British ...
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The quest for an inclusive and independent state has been ...
A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art
A Land With a People is a book of stories, photographs and poetry which elevates rarely ...
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual ...
The dramatic story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman Empire, as revealed by the archaeology ...
When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the ...
The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with the Arabian Sea. It opened ...
An exciting social history of Afghanistan told through art. From the complete coverage of chadaris to mini-skirts, and back again. From ancient carpet designs to ...
The Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the helm of its ascent was the omnipotent ...
The story of the Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries AD, when armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of ...
'We can't do a zigzag,' Golda Meir insisted as she drove Israel's 1948 Declaration of Independence through, gaining a bare majority of 6 ...
Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Spectator, Listener and Sydney Morning Herald
'This is a jewel of a book' - Sunday Times
'One ...
Accompanying a major 5-part BBC2 series from BAFTA-award winning documentary maker James Bleumel, a riveting oral history of the Iraq War, told from all sides ...
