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  • Syria

    A Modern History

    by David W. Lesch ...
    Today Syria is a country known for all the wrong reasons: civil war, vicious sectarianism, and major humanitarian crisis. But how did this once rich, multi-cultural society end up as the site of one of the twenty-first century’s most devastating and brutal conflicts?In this incisive book, internationally renowned Syria expert David Lesch takes the reader on an illuminating journey through the last ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Nirenberg

    The Education of a Texas Public Servant

    by Ron Nirenberg, David W. Lesch ...
    Nirenberg: The Education of a Texas Public Servant offers a compelling portrait of Ron Nirenberg’s eight-year tenure as mayor of San Antonio, the seventh largest city in the United States. From 2017 to 2025, Nirenberg guided the city through times of crisis and opportunity with a compassionate, pragmatic approach that defied partisan expectations and earned broad popular support. Winning six ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Syria

    by David W. Lesch ...
    When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came to power upon his father's death in 2000, many in- and outside Syria held high hopes that the popular young doctor would bring long-awaited reform, that he would be a new kind of Middle East leader capable of guiding his country toward genuine democracy. David Lesch was one of those who saw this promise in Assad. A widely respected Middle East scholar and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • 1979

    The Year That Shaped The Modern Middle East

    by David W. Lesch ...
    The Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the continuing US-Iraqi confrontation, the changing political dynamics in Iran, recent Pakistani-Indian hostilities and Osama bin Laden-all of these have one important common denominator: Significant strands of their origins can be traced to the tumultuous year of 1979. This text offers a new paradigm for stud ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Syria

    by Omar Imady, David Commins, David W. Lesch ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    Historical Dictionary of Syria, Fourth Edition covers the recent events in Syria as well as the history that led up to these events. The cross-referenced dictionary section has over 500 entries on significant persons, places and events, political parties and institutions, literature, music and the arts.. ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Syria

    by David Commins, David W. Lesch ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    In 2011, massive protest movements that appeared to come out of nowhere caught the Arab world’s autocrats by surprise and brought down powerful leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Thousands of Syrians took to the streets in March 2011 calling for the “fall of the regime,” the popular slogan of Arab uprisings, but found themselves confronting a determined foe willing to slaughter thousands ... Read more

    $176.99 CAD

  • The Middle East and the United States

    History, Politics, and Ideologies

    by David W. Lesch ...
    The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and policy experts to provide an empirical and balanced assessment of US policy in the Middle East primarily from the end of World War I to the present. Carefully edited by David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas, this text provides a broad and authoritative understanding of the United States’ involvement in the Middle East.The sixth edition ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Syria And The United States

    Eisenhower's Cold War In The Middle East

    by David W. Lesch ...
    The "Syrian crisis" of 1957, sparked by a covert attempt by the Eisenhower administration to overthrow what it perceived to be an emerging Soviet client state in the Middle East, represented the denouement of a badly misguided U.S. foreign policy, according to David Lesch. The repercussions of this incident, which almost precipitated a superpower c ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

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    by Anthony Cartalucci ...
    An E-book to beat the bombing - Expose the Big Lie in time to stop the war. Syria's situation is truly serious, under ruthless attack by enemies within and without. The so-called Syrian uprising is actually a cynical US-engineered plot using mercenaries, wahhabi fanatics and corrupt NGO's. They are determined to smash this independent Arab socialist state where oil wealth is spent on human welfare ... Read more

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  • The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Martin Bunton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles in history. In this accessible and stimulating Very Short Introduction, Martin Bunton clearly explains the history of the problem, reducing it to its very essence - a modern territorial contest between two nations and one geographical territory. Adopting a fresh and original approach, each section ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Ghosts of Martyrs Square

    An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle

    by Michael Young ...
    Not since Thomas Friedman’s From Beirut to Jerusalem in 1989 has a journalist offered such a poignant and passionate portrait of Lebanon—a uniquely pluralist Arab country struggling to defend its viability in a turbulent and treacherous Middle East.Michael Young, who was taken to Lebanon at age seven by his Lebanese mother after the death of his American father and who has worked most of his ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Battle for Saudi Arabia

    Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power

    by As'Ad Abukhalil ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power , Professor As`ad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia—questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own interests, seem unwilling to answer.In this unsparing probe into the history and power structure of the kingdom, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD