The World Through Arab Eyes

Author : Shibley Telhami
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465033409

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The World Through Arab Eyes by Shibley Telhami Pdf

The uprisings that transformed the Middle East beginning in 2011 have left experts scrambling to understand where the region is likely to go in years to come. But missing from most of the analysis is a longer view of the evolution of Arab Public opinion and identity and how this is likely to influence this fast-changing region. In The World Through Arab Eyes, Shibley Telhami shows how the roots of these rebellions stretch back decades and explains how they will continue to affect the stability of the Middle East in the years to come. Telhami draws on a decade's worth of polling data and analysis to provide a comprehensive look at this evolution of Arab identity and opinion. The demand for dignity, which was foremost in the chants of millions of Arab demonstrators, went far beyond being a struggle for “food” and individual rights. Telhami identifies the key prisms through which Arabs view issues ranging from democracy and religion to foreign actors, including the United States, European and Asian countries, Iran, Turkey, and, centrally, Israel. These prisms provide a key to interpreting the past, comprehending the seismic changes in Arab politics today, and engaging with the region in the future.

Author : Amin Maalouf
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780863568480

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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf Pdf

European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. Under Saladin, an unstoppable Muslim army inspired by prophets and poets finally succeeded in destroying the most powerful Crusader kingdoms. The memory of this greatest and most enduring victory ever won by a non-European society against the West still lives in the minds of millions of Arabs today. Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. He retells their stories in their own vivacious style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. He retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, and offers fascinating insights into some of the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today. 'Well-researched and highly readable.' Guardian 'A useful and important analysis adding much to existing western histories ... worth recommending to George Bush.' London Review of Books 'Maalouf tells an inspiring story ... very readable ... warmly recommended.' Times Literary Supplement 'A wide readership should enjoy this vivid narrative of stirring events.' The Bookseller 'Very well done indeed ... Should be put in the hands of anyone who asks what lies behind the Middle East's present conflicts.' Middle East International

Author : Francesco Gabrieli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135176075

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Arab Historians of the Crusades (Routledge Revivals) by Francesco Gabrieli Pdf

The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happenings were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. First published in English in 1969, this book presents 'the other side' of the Holy War, offering the first English translation of contemporary Arab accounts of the fighting between Muslim and Christian. Extracts are drawn from seventeen different authors encompassing a multitude of sources: The general histories of the Muslim world, The chronicles of cities, regions and their dynasties Contemporary biographies and records of famous deeds. Overall, this book gives a sweeping and stimulating view of the Crusades seen through Arab eyes.

Author : Nabil I. Matar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231141949

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Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727 by Nabil I. Matar Pdf

and Malta. From the first non-European description of Queen Elizabeth I to early accounts of Florence and Pisa in Arabic, from Tunisian descriptions of the Morisco expulsion in 1609 to the letters of a Moroccan Armenian ambassador in London, the translations of the book's second half draw on the popular and elite sources that were available to Arabs in the early modern period." "Matar notes that the Arabs of the Maghrib and the Mashriq were eager to engage Christendom, despite wars and rivalries, and hoped to establish routes of trade and alliances through treaties and royal marriages. However, the rise of an intolerant and exclusionary Christianity and the explosion of European military technology brought these advances to an end. In conclusion, Matar details the decline of Arab-Islamic power and the rise of Britain and France." --Book Jacket.

Author : Nabil Matar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781474434379

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United States Through Arab Eyes by Nabil Matar Pdf

A vibrant collection of writings about America from its earliest Arab immigrants, as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time.

Author : Abdulhay Y. Zalloum
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39076002654544

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Oil Crusades by Abdulhay Y. Zalloum Pdf

Leading oil consultant offers a damning critique of US policy.

Author : Nabil I. Matar
Publisher : Islamic History and Civilizati
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9004440240

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Mediterranean Captivity Through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 by Nabil I. Matar Pdf

Introduction: Mediterranean Captivities -- Qiṣaṣ al-Asrā, or Stories of the Captives -- Letters -- Divine Intervention: Christian and Islamic -- Conversion and Resistance -- Ransom and Return -- Captivity of Books -- Epilogue: Esclaves turcs in Sculpture -- Postscript: How Should the Sculptures Be Treated?

Author : Shibley Telhami
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056674008

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The Stakes by Shibley Telhami Pdf

One of America's most notable Middle East commentators imparts incisive views on peace, terrorism, and the continuing role of the United States in the region. Maps.

Author : Samuel Shimon
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Arabic fiction
ISBN : 9781408809631

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Beirut39 by Samuel Shimon Pdf

‘Beirut39’ is a Hay Festival project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young Arab writers as a centrepiece of the Beirut World Capital festivities in April 2010. Following the successful launch of ‘Bogotá 39’, which identified many of the most interesting upcoming Latin American talents, including Wendy Guerra, Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize), Santiago Roncagliolo and Juan Gabriel Vásquez (short-listed for the IFFP), ‘Beirut 39’ will bring to worldwide attention the best work from the Arab world. The judges will select from more than 300 submissions and the writers’ names will be unveiled in September 2009. The book will be published in English throughout the world (except the Arab world) by Bloomsbury, and in Arabic throughout the world and in English in the Arab World by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing.

Author : Amin Maalouf
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0805208984

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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf Pdf

The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants. He retells their story and offers insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

Author : Maurizio Bettini,William Michael Short
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1107157617

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The World through Roman Eyes by Maurizio Bettini,William Michael Short Pdf

The culmination of a project aimed at showcasing, in a systematic way, the potential of applying anthropological perspectives to classical studies, this volume highlights the fundamental contribution this approach has to make to our understanding of ancient Roman culture. Through the close study of themes such as myth, polytheism, sacrifice, magic, space, kinship, the gift, friendship, economics, animals, plants, riddles, metaphors, and images in Roman society (often in comparison with Greece) - where the texts of ancient culture are allowed to speak in their own terms and where the experience of the natives (rather than the horizon of the observer) is privileged - a rich panorama emerges of the worldview, beliefs, and deep structures that shaped and guided this culture.

Author : Faye Al Saadoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1641371471

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Unveiled by Faye Al Saadoon Pdf

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04T22:59:00Z
Category : History
ISBN : 9781669377931

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Summary of Amin Maalouf's The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In 1096, the Turkish sultan Kilij Arslan learned that an enormous Franj army was en route to Constantinople. He feared the worst, and immediately began planning how to defend his city. #2 The Byzantines had always recruited Western knights to help them fight the Muslims, and in 1096, they were joined by thousands of Franj, who were Christian refugees from the East. They had come to exterminate the Muslims, but they also sacked many Greek churches on their way. #3 The sultan’s palace was awash with agitation. The Turkish cavalry was ready to mount their chargers at a moment’s notice, but there was a constant flow of spies and scouts reporting the smallest movements of the Franj. The Franj went through several villages and plundered the harvests, then returned to camp and began to squabble over the spoils. #4 The Franj were ambushed and nearly six thousand of them were killed. The sultan, Kilij Arslan, was proud of his achievement, but he kept a cool head. He sent two Greek spies to the Civitot camp to report that Reynald’s men were in an excellent position and that they had taken Nicaea.

Author : Nabil I. Matar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 147443438X

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The United States Through Arab Eyes by Nabil I. Matar Pdf

"The first Arab immigrants to New York or Alaska or San Francisco were 'small' men and women, preoccupied with eking a living at the same time as confronting the challenges of settling in a new country. They had to come to terms with new race communities such as Indians, Chinese and Blacks, the changing role of women, and the Americanisation of their identity. Their writings about these experiences--from travellers and emigrants, rich and poor, men and women--took the form of travelogues and newspaper essays, daily diaries and adventure narratives, autobiographies and histories, full-length books published in the Ottoman Press in Lebanon and journal articles in Arabic newspapers printed in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. Together they show the transnational perspective of immigrants as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time"--Back cover.

Author : Abdulhay Yahya Zalloum
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0745325599

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Oil Crusades by Abdulhay Yahya Zalloum Pdf

Oil is the lifeblood of modern economics. It is the precious resource at the heart of empire-building---from the British empire to the American empire today. It underpins the world's financial markets. But seventy per cent of the world's oil supplies lie under the sands of the Middle East. Did the United States invade Iraq to grab Iraq's oil? Many people think so. This book shows how this is part of a wider U.S. attempt to dominate international oil and maintain America's global dominance. Written by an influential oil consultant with experience of working in both the U.S. and Arab oil industries, this book provides a rare insight into the real motivations behind U.S. intervention in the Arab world and the relationship between the United States and the Arab states. Abdulhay Yahya Zalloum provides a historical account of the roots of today's involvement, analyzing U.S. intervention in the Arab world since the nineteenth century. Zalloum provides an account of America's changing role in OPEC. He examines the fate of Iraq's oil and the involvement of U.S. contractors. He also analyzes the role of oil in America's relationship with Israel, providing an important insight into how this dynamic is viewed in the Arab world. The book offers a unique perspective on how the United States is viewed in the Arab region and how progress should be made if real peace and stability are to be brokered.