Articles inside the category: Book Reviews
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Monday, 20 Feb, 2012
Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
Victoria Clark
Yale University Press 2010
Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes is the kind of book that keeps you awake at night. Its British author, Sana’a-born Victoria Clark, essentially presents to her readers a mathematics problem unsolvable by a western mind. Far from prompting one to give up, however, this unsolvable problem taunts anyone with an inquisitive mind to take a nosedive into the fascinating social and political landscape, w...
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The GCC and the International Relations of the Gulf: Diplomacy, Security and Economic Coordination in a Changing Middle East
Matteo Legrenzi
I B Tauris, 2011
In the current political climate of extreme turbulence and almost unprecedented uncertainty in the Middle East it is oddly reassuring to think that, whatever happens, the Gulf Cooperation Council will remain resolute—steady as an oil-laden supertanker charting a course through a fearsome storm. The GCC has earned a repu...
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The Road to Tahrir Square: Egypt and the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak
Lloyd C. Gardner
The New Press 2011
The Road to Tahrir Square offer...
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The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Baath Party.
Nokalaos van Dam
I.B. Taurus 2011
This book, now in its fourth volume, is a thoro...
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Monday, 21 Nov, 2011
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Daniel Yergin
Allen Lane, 2011
The Quest by Daniel Yergin is a magisterial account of the comp...
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Stephen Glain is an American veteran, not of wars or military incursions, but of more than twenty years’ experience as a foreign correspondent and intrepid journalist. Stationed ...
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Friday, 30 Sep, 2011
Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror and Jihad have Changed the English Language
Fred Halliday
IB Tauris 2010
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers,...
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Tuesday, 20 Sep, 2011
Conspiracy Theories in the Arab World
Mathew Gray
Routledge 2010
£25.99
Were Jews, as claimed by Lebanese channel Al-Manar on 17 September 2001, not pres...
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Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Judith Butler
Verso Books 2009
£9.99
Being alive as a human being, according to Judith Butler, does not simply mean that one...
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Friday, 19 Aug, 2011
The Origins of the Libyan Nation: Colonial legacy, exile, and the emergence of a new nation-state
Anna Baldinetti
Routledge 2010
Anna Baldinetti’s interest is the...
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