The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
James Gelvin
Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand ...
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Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Michael Axworthy
Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct civilization today despite its status as a major ...
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Dov Waxman
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 ...
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Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Bruce K. Rutherford and Jeannie Sowers
With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism have combined to produce a region in ...
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The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
James L. Gelvin
The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know explores
the region in the aftermath of two pivotal events that took place in the beginning of the ...
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The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know®
James L. Gelvin
Since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, galvanizing the Arab uprisings that continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that ...
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Shariah: What Everyone Needs to Know®
John L. Esposito and Natana J. DeLong-Bas
Sharia is by now a term that most Americans and Europeans recognize, though few really understand what it means. Often portrayed as a medieval system used by religious zealots to oppress ...
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Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Andrew Finkel
Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: culturally, historically, and geographically, it is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. ...
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