Mellanösterns historia

"... en faktabok som på ett för Sverige ovanligt sätt lyckas förena rykande journalistisk aktualitet med essäistisk tyngd och bredd. /.../ Det är en imponerande rik och levande bok Jesper Huor och Anders Rydell har skrivit /.../ En bra bok la...

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Högaktuell läsning om kurdernas brokiga historia »Ingmar Karlsson bemästrar balansgångens konst .... han ger en strålande sammanfattning av kurdernas historia och politiska aspirationer.« Dagbladet »En gedigen genomgång av kurdernas historia ... b...

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ENTER THE BATTLEFIELDS OF ANCIENT GREECE WITH THE EPIC BESTSELLER FROM MASTER STORYTELLER CONN IGGULDEN 'Pacy and propulsive . . . Crackling with energy, violence and stirring speeches' DAILY MAIL 'Iggulden draws the Greek world con...

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The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author 'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer 'Magisterial' Terry Eagleton In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the histor...

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In the past three decades, archaeologists have made great strides in recovering the lost world of the Old Testament. Dozens of digs in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon have changed experts' understanding of ancient Israel and its neighbours-...

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"Israel och hennes fiender" är min berättelse om konflikten mellan Israel och palestinierna. Boken är också en uppgörelse med min egen analys av denna stora tvist som jag har följt ända sedan 1972 då jag första gången besökte regionen. S...

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»Den är som den låter: lärd. Karlsson, en ex-diplomat, är Sveriges främsta auktoritet på Mellanösternfrågor. Jag är ganska bra på ämnet men jag lärde mig mycket, mycket. Karlsson skriver fängslande och pedagogiskt.« Staffan Heimersson, Aftonbladet...

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Tom Holland's bestselling account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC 'Magisterial... told with great authority and a novelistic colour and verve' Books of the Year, Ind...

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What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of Islam, today's debate about the origin and meaning of jihad is nothi...

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'A stunning blockbuster' Robert Fisk 'A brilliant tour de force of revisionist scholarship and thrilling storytelling' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A compelling detective story of the highest o...

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Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve...

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Det persiska akemeniderriket var en politisk och ekonomisk stormakt; ett mer än tvåhundraårigt välde som under sin glansperiod rymde de gamla flodkulturerna i Mesopotamien, Indus och Egypten. Det omvandlade hela området från den grekiska övärlden ...

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Following up on his two recent, widely acclaimed studies of ancient Israelite history and society, William Dever here reconstructs the practice of religion in ancient Israel from the bottom up. Archaeological excavations reveal numerous local and ...

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A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, covering from pre-history to 2020, from King David to Donald Trump. The story of Jerusalem is the story of the wor...

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With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country's elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and ...

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The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known state Archaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans ...

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The standard history of modern Iran, now revised and updated to explain the countrys tumultuous recent history In this substantially revised and expanded version of Nikki Keddies classic work Roots of Revolution, the author brings the story of mod...

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Sunday Times Paperback of the Year The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious do...

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A fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East. In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Syke...

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The  Sun of Knowledge  ( Shams al-Ma'arif ) is one of the most revered historical grimoires of the Arabic corpus. Feared by some, hallowed by others, it is one of the most famous - or infamous - books in the Arabic-speaking and Islamicat...

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Nominally at least, the bloody and ruinous eight-year war fought between Iran and Iraq was a confrontation dominated by operations on land. The traditional impression is that the resources devoted to naval warfare were minute in comparison to thos...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize 'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending ...

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In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the rise and fall of dynastic power during this period...

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The fifteen tractates of the Corpus Hermeticum, along with the Perfect Sermon or Asclepius, are the foundation documents of the Hermetic tradition. Written by unknown authors in Egypt sometime before the end of the third century C.E., they were pa...

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Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition of A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000323 BC presents a comprehensive overview of the multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. Integrates the most up-to-date resea...

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In this remarkably human portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Emperor of Iran, Andrew Scott Cooper examines the life of an infamously complex personality in a bold new light. The recent wave of instability in the Middle East has led Iranian...

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In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not unt...

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Stora delar av Mellanöstern befinner sig idag i djup kris. Att fullt ut greppa komplexiteten i det som sker i den till synes oöverskådliga arena som Mellanöstern utgör, kan säkert för många te sig som en i det närmaste omöjlig uppgift. Men samtidi...

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Balancing past and present, Hazelton shows how 7th-century events are alive in Middle Eastern hearts and minds today as though they had just happened, shaping modern headlines from Iran's Islamic Revolution to the civil war in Iraq.

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Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year AwardThe first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and ...

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