This textbook is devoted to the Arab-Israeli conflict one of the most protracted of modern times. It has already lasted more than 110 years a bitter struggle, involving states, peoples, movements and individuals. It has manifested itself in wars, revolts, uprisings, massacres and various types of violence and terror. It has involved the historical ingathering of a people to a land they regard a…
Ini adalah kisah kemarahan rakyat atas pemimpinan negerinya yang terlalu lama berkuasa. Kekuasaan yang digunakan untuk kepentingan keluarga dan kroni-kroninya pada akhirnya menuai bencana. Rezim-rezim diktator dilawan oleh gerakan rakyat secara masif. Ben Ali dari Tunisia telah terguling. Kemudian Husni Mubarak di Mesir juga tumbang. Saat buku ini ditulis, Khadafi dari Libya juga sedang digunca…
The contents of this book: 1. History and Traditions 2. Government and Foreign Affairs 3. Economic Development 4. Infrastructure 5. Culture and Information
The United Arab Emirates was established in December 197. Since then, it has attracted international attention, at first because of its extensive oil reserves, and its strategic location at the mouth of the Arabian Gulf, but now thanks to its unparalleled programme of economic and social development.
The contents of this book: 1. Cultural and Social Changes in UAE - The UAE Evolution and Development - Social development over the years 2. Press and Society - Press establishment in the UAE - Historical Background
Buku ini berisikan informasi mengenai Emirat Arab mulai dari sejarah hingga militer dan susunan-susunan menteri yang menjabat.
In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine–and explains how to move around them and push the process forward. From the division of Jerusalem and Israeli counterterrorism measures to the security fence and the Iranian nuclear threat, his analyses are clear-headed, well-argued, and sure to be controversial. According to Dersho…
The Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, nor one simply explained by reference to the sectarian conflicts of a "mosaic" society. Instead, Barakat reveals a society that is highly complex, with many and various contending polarities. It is a society in a state of becoming and change, one whose social contradictions are at the root of the struggle to transcend dehumanizing conditions. Arguing f…
Why has the Arab world failed to achieve the political freedom, social stability, and economic improvement experienced in much of the rest of the world since the end of the Cold War? In Brutal Truths, Fragile Myths, veteran journalist Mark Huband argues that few of the region's leaders are capable of initiating the deep political changes necessary to address the challenges confronting them, and…
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life—"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had n…