Middle East
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 NEW! Identifying as Arab in CanadaA Century of Immigration History |
While “Arabs” now attract considerable attention – from media, the state, and sociological studies – their history in Canada remains little known. Identifying as Arab in … | 240 | View | ||
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From  If You Can Hear the Rockets, Then You are Alive |
In this chapter, the author travels to the Gaza Strip, and explores how artists there are able to find beauty in even the most unstable places. | Marcello Di Cintio | 44 | 2018 | $4.40 Add |
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From  Imperialism |
Chapter Four focuses on Israel’s ties to imperialism. The chapter explores how Israel had aided in the imperial mission of the West in the Middle East and how its own interests tie in with … | Stephen Gowans | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From IntroductionThe Girl in the Green Dress |
The introduction describes the experience of the author as he crosses the border into Palestine. | Marcello Di Cintio | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Introduction |
In the introduction, the author frames the book as a history of the Arab immigrant experience in Canada, covering the migratory trends, institutions the immigrants built in Canada, and their … | Houda Asal | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Introduction |
From 1963 onward, Syrian governments in which Ba’ath Arab Socialist Party members Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar played principal roles, were committed to the Arab nationalist values of … | Stephen Gowans | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
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From Introduction |
Stephen Gowans | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add | |
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From Iran |
Chapter Twelve focuses on Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. It removed Iran as a sphere of exploitation for US investors and created a new pole of resistance to the US imperialist … | Stephen Gowans | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Iran, 1953 |
In this chapter, Engler and Schalk examine the 1953 CIA-engineered coup in Iran, which toppled Prime Minister Mossadegh and restored the Pahlavi shah to power. | Owen Schalk; Yves Engler | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle EastFrom European Colony to US Power Projection Platform |
One US military leader has called Israel “the intelligence equivalent of five CIAs.” An Israeli cabinet minister likens his country to “the equivalent of a dozen US aircraft … | Stephen Gowans | 252 | 2019 | View |
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From  Jews and MuslimsFrom: Antisemitism |
In this chapter, Slayton traces the intertwined history of Judaism and Islam, from their shared reverence for Abraham and Jerusalem to the near-complete disappearance of Jewish communities from … | Philip Slayton | 19 | 2023 | $1.90 Add |
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From Jews and ZionismFrom: Antisemitism |
In this chapter, Slayton traces the intertwined histories of Jewish identity, political Zionism, and the Palestinian conflict, beginning with Theodor Herzl’s 1896 pamphlet and the 1917 … | Philip Slayton | 21 | 2023 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! Leaving the Ottoman Empire for the Americas |
This first chapter covers the first period of the scope of the study, beginning with the end of the nineteenth century to the 1920s, when immigrants to Canada were leaving the Ottoman Empire, … | Houda Asal | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
 NEW! My Road from DamascusA Memoir |
"An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the … | Jamal Saeed | 440 | 2022 | View |
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From Nakba |
Chapter Three focuses on the Nakba or ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic. The chapter explores the creation of the colonial settler state of Israel, aided by the British after the First World … | Stephen Gowans | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
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From Naksa |
Chapter Seven focuses on the ‘Naksa’ or defeat of the Arab states and the Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli army during the 1967 War, or the June War. The chapter explores the … | Stephen Gowans | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
