Subject: Middle East (Keywords)

In 'The Age of Jihad', Cockburn exposes the dominant conflict of our time - the Sunni-Shia war, and the subsequent origins of ISIS. As he shows this did not explode suddenly in Syria after the Arab Spring as the conventional view holds, but over several years in occupied Iraq. It is in the sectar...

'The Age of Jihad' charts the turmoil of today's Middle East and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the present. Beginning with the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, Cockburn explores the vast geopolitical struggle that is the Sunni-Shia conflict, a clash that shape...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the entire world was introduced to Al Qaeda and its enigmatic leader, Osama bin Laden. But the organization that changed the face of terrorism forever and unleashed a whirlwind of counterterrorism activity and two major wars had been on the scene long before ...

For the first time, the inspiring life stories of amazing Middle Eastern women are collected together. Travelling through the ages, we learn about the legendary storyteller Scheherazade, Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, and other courageous women, moving to the trailblazing women of our times, includin...

Presenting a survey of the cities of the ancient world, this text aims to bring to life the physical world of the city dweller, concentrating on evidence recovered at excavations in the Mediterranean basin & south-west Asia. The focus is on the urban form & the architecture & geography that creat...

This volume explores the lands of the ancient Near East from around 3200 BCE to 539 BCE. The earth-shaking changes that marked this era include such fundamental inventions as the wheel and the plow and intellectual feats such as the inventions of astronomy, law, and diplomacy..

By the late middle ages English constructional and decorative woodworking had attained a level of skill and sophistication unrivalled in Europe. East Anglia's churches are home to one of the most spectacular and distinctive products of this medieval expertise: the angel roof. Built mainly between...