Van Dyk, Jere

Summary: "This is the untold story of the origins, political awakening, and rise of what the United States and its allies call the Haqqani Network, and what the Haqqani family calls the Haqqani Mujahideen. The author lived with the Haqqanis as a young reporter for the New York Times in the 1980s, in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, when they were America's allies in the Afghan-Soviet war. After...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Academica Press 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 VAN

Pope, Hugh.

Summary: Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Burton and Lawrence of Arabia, Hugh Pope presents his modern-day explorations, mined from more than three decades, of the politics, religion, and aspirations of Muslim peoples to show how the Middle East is much more than a monolithic "Islamic world."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 POP

Blumenthal, Max

Summary: THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. Washington's secret funding of the Mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BLU

Galbraith, Peter (Peter W.)

Summary: Following his New York Times bestseller The End of Iraq, Peter W. Galbraith describes the storm the next president will inherit in the Middle East as a result of President George W. Bush's failed Iraq policies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 GAL

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 Gul

Blum, Howard

Summary: Chronicles the exploration by Larry Williams and Bob Cornuke to find the biblical mountain where Moses recieved the Ten Commandments after the flight of the Jews from Egyptian enslavement. With bible in hand the explorers find Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia, at a peak now known as Jabal al Lawz, which in the late 1970s became part of a top-secret military installation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 BLU

Rosenberg, Joel C.

Summary: "Inside the Revolution" takes you inside the winner-take-all battle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the people of the Middle East with never-before-seen profiles of the Radicals, the Reformers and the Revivalists, explaining the implications of each movement and the importance of each leader--not only through the lenses of politics and economics but through the third lens of Scripture as well.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.054 ROS

Summary: Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIX

Bird, Kai.

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 BIRD, KAI BIR

Carter, Jimmy

Summary: Believing the lack of permanent Middle Eastern peace is a persistent threat to global peace, President Carter suggests two stumbling blocks to lasting harmony in this region. One is Israel refuses to honor previous peace commitments. Secondly, Arab countries refuse to acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a nation. Carter places the lion's share of the blame for this impasse on Israel and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.04 CAR