Middle East
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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 |
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  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 |
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From Nasserism |
Chapter Six explores Nasserism. As a nationalist and socialist ideology, Nasserism, which took its name from the Egyptian leader and president Gamal Abed Nasser, greatly influenced and inspired … | Stephen Gowans | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Organizing Under Suspicion |
Chapter eight, Organizing Under Suspicion, traces the political organizing activities of the Canadian Arab Federation, including its major organizing goals of influencing Canada’s foreign … | Houda Asal | 29 | 2020 | $2.90 Add |
 Pay No Heed to the RocketsPalestine in the Present Tense |
Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999. Like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative that he knew had been simplified by a seemingly unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of … | Marcello Di Cintio | 264 | 2018 | View |
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From NEW! Pioneers and Adventurers |
The second chapter, Pioneers and Adventurers, looks first at the identities of the first wave of Arab immigrants to North America. Then it considers the geographic spread and presence of this … | Houda Asal | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From Progress |
Chapter Eight focuses on the progress being made by Third World countries in the United Nations General Assembly as they began to overthrow the virtual monopoly of First World countries with … | Stephen Gowans | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Regime Change |
Two forces sought to topple the secular Arab nationalists of Ba’athist Syria, each for its own, and separate reasons. Both forces were equally determined to end the influence of secular … | Stephen Gowans | 31 | 2017 | $3.10 Add |
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From Saddam |
Chapter Nine focuses on Saddam Hussian. During the 1970s, Saddam used Iraq’s oil wealth to pursue ambitious programs of social reform and economic uplift, earning him the plaudits of the … | Stephen Gowans | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From Settlers |
Chapter Eleven focuses on the ideology of the Israeli Settlers. Settler colonialism is a system through which natives are displaced by immigrants. Under this system, the natives are defined as … | Stephen Gowans | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
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From  She is Oranges that Explode |
In this chapter, the author explores the experience of refugees living in camps in Palestine. | Marcello Di Cintio | 38 | 2018 | $3.80 Add |
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From Syria |
Chapter Ten focuses on Syria. Before the British and French divided Turkey’s West Asian possessions in 1920, Syria comprised territory covering today’s Palestine, Israel, Jordan, … | Stephen Gowans | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
