Following the signing of the Gulustan and Turkmanchay treaties in 1813 and 1828, respectively, a very rapid mass resettlement occurred of Armenians into Azerbaijani lands, resulting in the artificial territorial division of the region.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyajikan profil ekonomi dari wilayah akreditasi Konsulat Jenderal Republik Indonesia di Jeddah, Arab Saudi. Wilayah ini merupakan salah satu yang paling signifikan bagi Indonesia dalam konteks diplomasi ekonomi, karena memiliki hubungan ekonomi yang erat dengan Arab Saudi dan negara-negara sekitarnya. Penelitian ini akan menggambarkan karakteristik ekonomi wilay…
The Christian Arabs, organized in a variety of denominations, constitute today no more than a small minority in the predominantly Muslim Arab World. Yet they have historically enjoyed -and continue to enjoy- an importance out of all proportion to their numbers. With the wave of religious fundamentalism currently sweeping the Muslim world, there has been much speculation about their future. Such…
The book tells the story of the clandestine contacts between the Israelis and the PLO which culminated in the crucial talks in Oslo. Mahmoud Abbas, who wielded great influence from behind the scenes, also explains how the negotiating team (led by Abu Ala) and their Israeli counterparts overcame their mutual suspicion and how, despite various setbacks, they used the freedom afforded by secrecy f…
The revolution in Iran, the American hostage crisis and the Soviet inter vention in Afghanistan had made it necessary for the United States to take steps to protect its interests in that region. The security of the oil supply routes through the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea was vital to the West and Japan. The Iran-Iraq war made it even more important to act to safeguard western se…
It is not often that a participant in a world crisis steps back from it to view its causes, and possible cure, with the clinical eye of a detached commentator. But this is what Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan has done. So convinced is he of the imminent threat of Armageddon that he has taken the unusual step of writing a book, not just to urge his country's cause (though Jordan speaks with a uniq…
De vrede die niet kwam is een journalistieke neerslag van lange en intensieve gesprekken die de journalist Jan Keulen had met de diplomaat Nikolaos van Dam over zijn werk als diplomaat en over de centrale thema's in het Midden-Oosten: de Palestijnse kwestie. Irak, Syrië, Libanon. democratie en mensenrechten. fundamentalisme en de Arabische verhouding met het Westen.
Illusions of triumph challenges the conventional view that the gulf war was a crushing victory for international cooperations over a brutal dictator.
This book surprisingly shows the close relationship between Islam and Judaism vis-à-vis dreams. This work-which places a special emphasis on sex, death, and religion- should hold a special interest for psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, philosophers, and all those who study religion, the occult, or Oriental culture. But it is also likely to prove helpful to the lay reader in understand…
This study is supplementary to an earlier study of the juridical status of the City of Jerusalem which was published in November 1979. Although it is not feasible to make a clear separation of the legal issues concerning Jerusalem, on the one hand, and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on the other, as they are essentially inter-related, the City and the territories with which this study is conc…