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Arab-Israeli conflict

the essential reference guide
2014
Contains alphabetically-arranged entries and primary source documents that provide information about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

And then all hell broke loose

two decades in the Middle East
2016
First-hand account of NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel's two decades of reporting stories of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. Over two decades Engel has been under fire, blown out of hotel beds, and taken hostage. He has watched Mubarak and Morsi in Egypt arrested and condemned, reported from Jerusalem, been through the Lebanese war, covered the whole shooting match in Iraq, interviewed Libyan rebels who toppled Gaddafi, reported from Syria as Al-Qaeda stepped in, and was kidnapped in the Syrian cross currents of fighting. He goes into Afghanistan with the Taliban and to Iraq with ISIS.

The race for paradise

an Islamic history of the crusades
2014
" ... a representation of the Islamic experience of the Crusades during the Middle Ages, [overturning] previous claims and present[ing] new arguments, such as the idea that the Frankish invasions of the Near East were something of a side-show to the broader internal conflict between Sunnis and Shi'ites in the region ... "--Provided by publisher.

ISIS exposed

beheadings, slavery, and the hellish reality of radical Islam
"Terrorism expert Erick Stakelbeck pulls back the curtain on ISIS, the violent terrorist organization spreading death and hate in the Middle East. The rise of ISIS took the White House by complete surprise: President Obama called the group "JV," then was forced to reassess when ISIS began executing innocent American journalists. Now radicalized Americans and Europeans are joining ISIS' ranks. So who is ISIS? How powerful are they, and are they a threat to the homeland? Stakelbeck, a veteran national security reporter and a leading authority on the Middle East, has produced the definitive guide to America's most recent and most frightening enemy. "--.

Opium nation

child brides, drug lords, and one woman's journey through Afghanistan
2011
Fariba Nawa fled Afghanistan as a child with her family during the Soviet invasion twenty years earlier. When she returned as an adult, she discovered a fractured country transformed by a multibillion-dollar drug trade.
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