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Peck, Malcolm C.
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953.003
Publication Date
2007
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The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States comes at a time when the world's attention is riveted on the Middle East. The small states covered in this volume--Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)--possess about 20 percent of the world's total oil reserves. Beyond the strategic and economic importance conferred upon them by their vast oil reserves, the Gulf Arab states are worthy of attention for the inherent interest of their history and culture. No area of the world has yielded more revealing and exciting archaeological finds in the past fe.
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El-Bendary, Mohamed, 1966-
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303.482174927073 23
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2011
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Geraghty, Timothy J.
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956.92044 22
Publication Date
2009
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On October 23, 1983, simultaneous suicide truck bombings killed 241 U.S. peacekeepers in their barracks at the Beirut International Airport (BIA) and 58 French paratroopers at their headquarters two miles north of BIA. In this book, the Marine Corps commander of U.S. Multi-National Peacekeeping Force destroyed by terrorists in Lebanon tells his story. Together, these suicide bombings comprised largest nonnuclear explosion ever recorded and are now recognized as a seminal event leading to current war on terrorism. Such acts of war revealed a new, highly effective tactic, which complemented the terrorists' strategic goals, the withdrawal of peacekeepers and Western influence from Lebanon and a change in U.S. policy. It lays out, in detail, a sequence of events leading up to suicide truck bombings from which one can extrapolate the rationale, motives, and perpetrators behind it. Geraghty argues that absence of any retribution against the perpetrators emboldened terrorists to assume they could attack Americans and Western interests with impunity. This led to kidnappings, torture, and murders of Americans and other Westerners. This book will be of interest to general readers who want to learn more about this seminal event and its effects on the current global war on terrorism--Publisher's description.
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Jamal, Amaney A., 1970-
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320.9174927 23
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2012
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In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the authoritarian status quo in parts of this region--and the willingness of its citizens to compromise on core democratic principles--one must factor in how a strong U.S. presence and popular anti-Americanism weakens democratic voices. Examining such countries as Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia, Amaney Jamal explores how Arab citizens decide whether to back existing regimes, regime transitions, and democratization projects, and how th.
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Kymlicka, Will, editor.
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305.8 23
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2014
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This title explores the obstacles to multiculturalism and minority rights in Arab states, including the history of European manipulation of minority politics.
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Wahlrab, Amentahru, editor.
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327.730174927 23
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2018
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Abrams, Elliott, 1948- author.
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327.73056 23
Publication Date
2017
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"America is turning away from support for democrats in Arab countries in favor of "pragmatic" deals with tyrants to defeat violent Islamist extremism. For too many policy makers, Arab democracy is seen as a dangerous luxury. In Democracy and Realism, Elliott Abrams marshals four decades of experience as an American official and leading Middle East expert to show that deals with tyrants will not work. Islamism is an idea that can only be defeated by a better idea: democracy. Through a careful analysis of America's record of democracy promotion in the region and beyond, from the Cold War to the Obama years, Abrams proves that repression helps Islamists beat democrats, while political openings offer moderates and liberals a chance. This book makes a powerful argument for an American foreign policy that combines practical politics and idealism and refuses to abandon those struggling for democracy and human rights in the Arab world"--
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McCloud, Aminah Beverly, 1948-
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973.088297 22
Publication Date
2006
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An in-depth yet accessible guide to Islamic immigrants from the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa that challenges the widely held perception that Islam is monolithic and exclusively Arab in identity and expression.
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Nasir, Jamal J.
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346.013409174927 22
Publication Date
2009
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"This is the third revised and updated edition of a work that provides a detailed and systematic account of the legal aspects of Islam and modern Arab Islamic legislation with specific regard to the rights and obligations of women. Addressing in particular the legislation of the arab world states, the study ontains essential information on a wide range of topics including dower, maintenance, the iddat, parentage, fosterage and custory, and also a particularly valuable section on marriage and the dissolution of marriage. The work is an important source of reference not only for legal practitioners, university libraries and other academic institutions, but is also of general interest to those directly concerned with the subject, particularly Muslim communicaties in non-Muslim countries, Muslim women worldwide or non-Muslim women who may be married to Muslims"--Provided by publisher.
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Matthiesen, Toby, 1984- author.
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953.6 23
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2013
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As popular uprisings spread across the Middle East, popular wisdom often held that the Gulf States would remain beyond the fray. In Sectarian Gulf, Toby Matthiesen paints a very different picture, offering the first assessment of the Arab Spring across the region. With first-hand accounts of events in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, Matthiesen tells the story of the early protests, and illuminates how the regimes quickly suppressed these movements. Pitting citizen against citizen, the regimes have warned of an increasing threat from the Shia population. Relations between.
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Brown, Nathan J.
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956.953054 22
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2003
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This work gives an internal perspective on Palestinian politics viewing political patterns from the Palestinian point of view rather than through the Arab-Israeli conflict. It presents the meaning of state-building and self-reliance as Palestinians have understood them between 1993 and 2002.
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Robinson, Shira, 1972- author.
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323.119274009045 23
Publication Date
2013
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Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they nonetheless found their movement, employment, and civil rights restricted by a draconian military government put in place to facilitate the colonization of their lands. Citizen Strangers traces how Jewish leaders struggled to advance their historic settler project while forced by new international human rights norms to share politica.
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