A Quest In The Middle East

Author : Liora Lukitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857716040

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A Quest in the Middle East by Liora Lukitz Pdf

Revered or reviled, Gertrude Bell was a commanding figure: scholar, linguist, archaeologist, traveller and 'orientalist'. A remarkable woman in male-dominated Edwardian society, she shunned convention by eschewing marriage and family for an academic career and the extensive travelling that would lead to her major role in Middle Eastern diplomacy. But her private life war marred by the tragedy, vulnerability and frustration that were key to her quest both for a British dominated Middle East and relief from the torture of her romantic failures. Through her vivid writings, she brought the Arab world alive for countless Britons as she travelled to some of the region's most inhospitable places. She explored the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I when her travels throughout the region and her knowledge of Arabic made her indispensable to British Intelligence. Alongside T.E. Lawrence, she was hugely instrumental in the post-war reconfiguration of the Arab states in the Middle East. In Iraq, in particular, she became a friend and confidant of the new King Faisal, and a prime mover in drawing up the country's boundaries and establishing a constitutional monarchy there, with its parliament, civil service and legal system. She was influential in creating the state which had all the trappings of independence while remaining a virtual British colony. The legacy of her work is still being played out in the conflicts of today. Yet behind Gertrude Bell's public success was a backdrop of personal passions, desires and the relationships that drove this extraordinary woman. Embroiled in an unsuccessful love affair with Charles Doughty-Wylie, a married man, she found peace in the solitude of the desert. But the seemingly intractable problems of the newly independent Iraq led her to write of the 'weariness of it all'. Shortly afterwards she took her own life with a lethal dose of sleeping pills. Using previously unseen sources, including Gertude Bell's own diaries and letters, Liora Lukitz provides a deeper political and personal biography of this influential character. A Quest in the Middle East is a lyrical and illuminating portrait of a woman born ahead of her time, grappling with issues that would shape the future of the Middle East.

Author : Gerald Honigman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 1599798549

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The Quest for Justice in the Middle East by Gerald Honigman Pdf

Spanning centuries, the Arab-Jewish conflict has been rife with brutality and injustice. But in recent decades, the Western press in conjunction with the commentariat have steered both coverage and debate toward a decidedly Arab and Muslim-centric focus. Constant terror attacks on Jewish and Israeli citizens in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem are barely noticed by the worldwide news. But when Israel attempts to halt repeated Qassam rocket assaults on its urban populations launched by Arab and Muslim terrorists--from schoolyards and hospital rooftops, behind ever-present "human shields"--the news and commentary elites erupt in indignation, with ready-made talking points on "disproportionate responses" and the constant refrain that Israel has no right to protect herself. Gerald Honigman's The Quest for Justice In the Middle East finally blows the whistle on generations of duplicity, shifting the debate once and for all back toward the center--and justice. For too long, the horrors wrought against non-Jews in the Middle East have gone unspoken, but now the forced conversions, inquisitions, expulsions, subjugation, pogroms, and dehumanization--against Jews and non-Jews alike--are exposed, hopefully toward the realization of equal justice and peace throughout the Middle East.

Author : Hedley V. Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1314571350

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Challenge and response in the Middle East : the quest for prosperity, 1919-1951 by Hedley V. Cooke Pdf

Author : Ilan Greilsammer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429712678

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Europe's Middle East Dilemma by Ilan Greilsammer Pdf

This book analyzes the principal landmarks in the evolution of a unified European stance toward the Middle East conflict, placing events in the context of the contemporary political and economic circumstances. It offers a theoretical scheme for the study of European political cooperation. .

Author : Willard A. Beling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0585069220

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The Middle East: Quest for an American Policy by Willard A. Beling Pdf

Author : Levison Wood
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780802147332

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An Arabian Journey by Levison Wood Pdf

The acclaimed author of Walking the Americas shares his epic journey through the war-torn Arabian Peninsula in this fascinating travelogue. Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula. Starting in September 2017 in a city in Northern Syria, a stone’s throw away from Turkey and amidst a deadly war, Wood set forth on a 5,000-mile trek through the most contested region on the planet. Wood moved through the Middle East for six months, from ISIS-occupied Iraq through Kuwait and along the jagged coastlines of the Emirates and Oman; across Yemen—in the midst of civil war—and on to Saudia Arabia, Jordan, and Israel, before ending on the shores of the Mediterranean in Lebanon. Like his predecessors, Wood travelled through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on earth, seeking to challenge our perceptions of this part of the world. Through the people he meets—and the personal histories and local mythologies they share—Wood examines how the region has changed over thousands of years and what it means to its people today.

Author : Quil Lawrence
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802718815

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Invisible Nation by Quil Lawrence Pdf

The American invasion of Iraq has been a success - for the Kurds. Kurdistan is an invisible nation, and the Kurds the largest ethnic group on Earth without a homeland, comprising some 25 million moderate Sunni Muslims living in the area around the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Through a history dating back to biblical times, they have endured persecution and betrayal, surviving only through stubborn compromise with greater powers. They have always desired their own state, and now, accidentally, the United States may have helped them take a huge step toward that goal. As Quil Lawrence relates in his fascinating and timely study of the Iraqi Kurds, while their ambition and determination grow apace, their future will be largely dependent on whether America values a budding democracy in the region, or decides to yet again sacrifice the Kurds in the name of political expediency. Either way, the Kurdish north may well prove to be the defining battleground in Iraq, as the country struggles to hold itself together. At this extraordinary moment in the saga of Kurdistan, informed by his deep knowledge of the people and region, Lawrence's intimate and unflinching portrait of the Kurds and their heretofore quixotic quest offers a vital and original lens through which to contemplate the future of Iraq and the surrounding Middle East.

Author : Dennis J. Deeb
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761861003

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Israel, Palestine, & the Quest for Middle East Peace by Dennis J. Deeb Pdf

After the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Pakistan’s then President Pervez Musharraf declared: “The Palestinian front is affecting the entire Muslim world. All terrorists and militant activity in the world today has been initiated because of the Palestinian problem. This is because of the sense of hopelessness, alienation, and powerlessness.” The decade following the aftermath of September 11th has only proven that a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East and a resolve to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are a crucial necessity to global stability. In this well-researched and thoroughly-documented work, Professor Dennis J. Deeb II objectively aims to provide both a historical narrative of the events surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a historiography exploring the failures to achieve the end result of a final settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What went wrong with peace? This book explores the issues of contention that must be resolved between the parties to reach a lasting settlement.

Author : Institute of World Affairs,University of Southern California
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0873952286

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The Middle East by Institute of World Affairs,University of Southern California Pdf

In many respects this book represents a considerable departure from traditional works on international relations in the Middle East. Instead of offering partial explanations based on conventional approaches, this book attempts to incorporate studies with different methodological approaches and with the Middle East. Foreign affairs specialists offer balanced and linguistically neutral commentaries, while marshalling empirical data to support their analyses. The result is a broad synthesis which helps the reader see the larger picture despite its complexity. The Middle East is considered as a subordinate system of the international political system in Part 1. The chapters in this section focus on the nations of the area and their interactions within the subsystem. The papers also examine the implications of these interactions to the nations outside the Middle East. In Part 2 the scope of inquiry is enlarged to treat interactions between the major world powers and the nations of the Middle East. Papers in Part 3 focus upon American foreign policy in the Middle East. This portion examines the roles of various special-interest groups such as the oil companies, Zionists, the United States Congress, newspapers, and religious bodies as they relate to the formation of American policy for the Middle East. In essence, The Middle East is an "international relations" study of the Middle East. Additionally, it has new material--the treatment of religious influences upon the Middle East, the attitudes of some major newspapers towards the middle East conflict, and the domestic position of Israel regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict--seldom discussed in other works.

Author : Jarmo Oikarinen
Publisher : Finnish Literature Society
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 9517101171

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The Middle East in the American Quest for World Order by Jarmo Oikarinen Pdf

The book offers a reappraisal of the American conception of a world order and its influence on American foreign policy during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9957484109

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The Middle East - Peace by Piece by Anonim Pdf

Author : P. R. Kumaraswamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : China
ISBN : 8170368472

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China and the Middle East by P. R. Kumaraswamy Pdf

Author : Martin Gutmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031378294

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The Unseen Leader by Martin Gutmann Pdf

The Unseen Leader delivers one simple but immensely powerful point: we need to radically rethink how we discuss leadership. In this book, American historian Martin Gutmann passionately challenges the received wisdom that history's great leaders were individuals with a proclivity for action and brash words. Drawing on extensive historical scholarship and contemporary leadership theory, Gutmann delves into the journeys of four unknown or misunderstood leaders who achieved remarkable successes in vastly different environments—the Polar North, the deserts of Arabia, the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, and Second World War London. What emerges is an entirely new narrative on leadership. Contrary to the perception of heroic protagonists forging ahead boldly, history's truly great leaders were often precisely those who didn't need to generate excessive noise or activity. Instead, they skillfully minimized dramatic circumstances. Their stories challenge our present-day conception of leadership and can inspire the leaders of tomorrow.

Author : Nadav Safran
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501718557

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Saudi Arabia by Nadav Safran Pdf

Combining vast scholarship and a deep understanding of Arab culture, Nadav Safran has written a sophisticated book about the politics of Saudi Arabia. In a narrative that emphasizes the Saudis' sense of the precariousness of their state and of their position in the Middle East, Safran demystifies the behavior of the Kingdom's rulers. Security has long been the predominant concern of Saudi Arabia. In 1981, the Kingdom's defense and security budget was an immense $25 billion, the fourth largest in the world, after the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, and the highest in the world on a per capita basis. Safran traces the roots of Saudi preoccupation with security through half a century, discerning political struggles and policy differences in the Saud family and how they have affected the position of the country. His treatment provides an enlightening perspective on the interplay of the politics of the elite; shifting inter-Arab alignments and rivalries; war, revolution, and other cataclysmic events in the Persian Gulf; the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict; and the involvement of the United States in the Middle East.

Author : Shibley Telhami,Michael N. Barnett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Group identity
ISBN : 0801487455

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Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East by Shibley Telhami,Michael N. Barnett Pdf

Shibley Telhami and Michael Barnett, together with experts on Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Syria, explore how the formation and transformation of national and state identities affect the foreign policy behavior of Middle Eastern states.