Product Description: Why do countries celebrate defining religious moments or significant events in their history, and how and why do their leaders select certain events for commemoration and not others? This book is the first systematic study of the role of celebrations and public holidays in the Arab Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the present...read more

Product Description: "An enormous amount of academic literature has been published on Nasserism since the 1950s and, to my mind, Rethinking Nasserism is without a doubt the last word on the subject. . . . An outstanding reappraisal of Nasserism as a major force in the 20th-century Middle East...read more

Product Description: This book deals with British involvement in the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The wide range of topics encompassed here explore both Britain’s imperial legacy and its relationship with the contemporary Middle East, including Palestine, Israel and the Jews, Britain’s role in Egypt, the Levant, the Fertile Crescent, and the Gulf...read more

Product Description: Israeli history textbooks in the past contained many biases, distortions, and omissions concerning the depiction of Arabs and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Today these misrepresentations are gradually being corrected. This study encourages the depiction of a balanced portrait in all textbooks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The struggle between Egypt and Iraq over Arab hegemony constitutes the main theme of this study. Focussing on the struggle over Middle Eastern defense between 1945-58, and culminating in the conflict over the Baghdad Pact (1955-58), it sheds new light on Arab politics during the period under review...read more