middle east

Presents illustrated geographical and cultural overviews of Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Oman, describing their peoples, religions, economies, histories, leisure activities, arts, and other aspects, and includes fact sheets, time lines, charts, tables, and recipes.

Presents illustrated geographical and cultural overviews of Iran, Iraq, and Israel, describing their peoples, religions, economies, histories, leisure activities, arts, and other aspects, and includes fact sheets, time lines, charts, tables, and recipes.

Presents illustrated geographical and cultural overviews of Bahrain, Cyprus, and Egypt, describing their peoples, religions, economies, histories, leisure activities, arts, and other aspects, and includes fact sheets, time lines, charts, tables, and recipes.

Presents statistics, essays, and newspaper and magazine articles on each country in the Middle East, discussing the significance of Islam to the region and providing background on the region's modern conflicts.

Examines the impact of the Middle East's oil industry on the development of the region's countries, the benefit of oil income to the region's people, the role of oil in the conflicts of the Middle East, and other topics related to the Middle Eastern oil industry.

Explores how environmental, demographic, economic, and political changes in Africa and the Middle East are threatening fourteen endangered cultures.

Ali Baba discovers the hidden treasures of a band of robbers, survives great danger, and brings riches to his entire family. Presented in English and Italian.

Presents a comprehensive introduction to Islamic art and culture from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Provides a comparative study of how Britain and France came to rule the Middle Eastern nations of Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, and explores the questions of why these dependencies developed into such unstable and internationally explosive states under European rule in the years between 1914 and 1958.

Examines the threat Islamic extremists pose to the United States, explaining the basics of Islam and the intricacies of each significant extremist group.