middle east

The war against ISIS and the so-called caliphate it declared across Syria and Iraq was a battle to define not just the Middle East but the wider world. Growing from the aftermath of the U.S. war in Iraq and a brutal civil war in Syria, ISIS sought to usher in a new era of conflict as it launched terrorist attacks across Europe, while inflicting a savage extremism on the population in controlled.

Descended from an ancient Lithuanian family, the author's forebears were princes in their native Lithuania. Born in what is now Belarus, his family was ousted in 1939 as the Germans and Russians carved up Poland, and the area round it, between them. His family, along with thousands of others, was deported to Soviet Siberia to work and die. Before all hope was gone, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, and Stalin needed help wherever he could get it. An army of Polish ex-prisoners, and part of the deported male civilian Polish population, fought the Germans. The rest of the deported civilians had to fend for themselves and Michal's mother and her children set off on a second grueling journey that would eventually take them to England.

Presents a first-hand account of youth culture in various countries of the Middle East including interviews with Hezbollah members, Palestinian refugees in southern Lebanon, and Bedouin camps.

The author describes his experiences trekking through Ethiopia, Arabia, Israel, and France in search of the truth behind the legend of the Queen of Sheba.

Author recounts his travels through thirteen Muslim countries in the Middle East: the ordinary people, the conflicts, and the land.

The author describes his journey through places mentioned in the Old Testament.

Mark Twain's classic 1869 chronicle of his travels with a group of fellow "pilgrims" through Europe and the Holy Land, in which he makes fun of both European snobbery and American coarseness. Includes explanatory notes.

Examines Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics, Lebanese factions, news reporting from the Middle East, and other issues of the Middle East.