The Emergence of the Modern Middle East

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Coursera - Tel Aviv University: List of books on the reading list and student suggestions
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Storia dei popoli arabi
di Albert Hourani
3,263 utenti
18 recensioni
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Il Medio Oriente: duemila anni di storia
di Bernard Lewis
1,593 utenti
14 recensioni
½ 3.5
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Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
di Michael B. Oren
1,044 utenti
14 recensioni
3.9
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Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
di Michael Korda
658 utenti
14 recensioni
4
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aulsmith: I recently read this. Excellent book and very helpful in understanding some of the current problems in the Middle East.
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Orientalismo
di Edward W. Said
5,723 utenti
41 recensioni
3.9
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
di Tom Segev
577 utenti
5 recensioni
4
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
di Scott Anderson
1,408 utenti
50 recensioni
4.1
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The Modern Middle East: A Reader
di Albert Hourani
79 utenti
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1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
di Benny Morris
321 utenti
6 recensioni
4.1
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Le altissime torri: come Al-Qaeda giunse all'11 settembre
di Lawrence Wright
3,452 utenti
79 recensioni
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avatiakh: student - gives perspective to how events of the last half of the 20th century have shaped and spawned global terrorism in the middle east and abroad in the last three decades.
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Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism 1920-1945
di Philip S. Khoury
18 utenti
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Islam and the West
di Bernard Lewis
251 utenti
1 recensione
3.8
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Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad
di Gordon Thomas
730 utenti
16 recensioni
½ 3.7
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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
di Ari Shavit
822 utenti
55 recensioni
4.2
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
di Lucette Lagnado
552 utenti
24 recensioni
3.8
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Israel Has Moved
di Diana Pinto
20 utenti
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Suez 1956: The Inside Story of the First Oil War
di Barry Turner
51 utenti
3 recensioni
½ 3.6
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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
di Tom Holland
927 utenti
18 recensioni
3.8
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The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
di Yoram Peri
8 utenti
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Jerusalem: The Biography
di Simon Sebag-Montefiore
2,173 utenti
43 recensioni
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The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism
di Hamid Dabashi
38 utenti
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Napoleon in Egypt
di Paul Strathern
199 utenti
4 recensioni
3.8
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Un destino parallelo: la storia del mondo vista attraverso lo sguardo dell'islam
di Tamim Ansary
1,024 utenti
36 recensioni
4.2
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avatiakh: student - reaches beyond the Middle East to chronicle the history of the entire Islamic world
27
The Greatness that was Babylon
di H. W. F. Saggs
451 utenti
1 recensione
½ 3.7
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Gerusalemme, Gerusalemme!
di Larry Collins
1,422 utenti
29 recensioni
4
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I sette pilastri della saggezza
di T. E. Lawrence
4,786 utenti
55 recensioni
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Due in uno
di Sayed Kashua
197 utenti
13 recensioni
4
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avatiakh: student - fiction about Jewish and Israeli-Arab identity in modern Israel
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Una storia di amore e di tenebra
di Amos Oz
2,359 utenti
58 recensioni
4.2
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Palestine Betrayed
di Efraim Karsh
79 utenti
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The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
di Abraham Rabinovich
253 utenti
5 recensioni
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Figlio di Hamas. Dall'intifada ai servizi segreti israeliani
di Mosab Hassan Yousef
845 utenti
25 recensioni
4
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Cronache mediorientali: il grande inviato di guerra inglese racconta cent'anni di invasioni, tragedie e tradimenti
di Robert Fisk
1,966 utenti
40 recensioni
½ 4.3
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Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
di Michael H. Morgan
206 utenti
1 recensione
½ 3.6
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I viaggi
di Ibn Battuta
336 utenti
5 recensioni
3.9
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Israel: A History
di Anita Shapira
105 utenti
1 recensione
½ 4.6
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Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923
di Efraim Karsh
138 utenti
1 recensione
4
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40
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Routledge Historical Atlases)
di Martin Gilbert
323 utenti
2 recensioni
3.8
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Loaded Dice: The Foreign Office and Israel
di Neill Lochery
3 utenti
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42
The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Council on Foreign Relations)
di Noah Feldman
115 utenti
2 recensioni
½ 4.3
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Nel cuore dell'Islam: geopolitica e movimenti estremisti in Asia centrale
di Ahmed Rashid
1,449 utenti
17 recensioni
3.9
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Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's Soul (Jewish Encounters Series)
di Daniel Gordis
63 utenti
1 recensione
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Cultura e imperialismo: letteratura e consenso nel progetto coloniale dell' Occidente
di Edward W. Said
2,032 utenti
11 recensioni
4
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
di Stephen Kinzer
1,189 utenti
22 recensioni
4.1
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The Ottoman Centuries
di Lord Kinross
803 utenti
10 recensioni
½ 3.7
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Sempre nel posto sbagliato
di Edward W. Said
742 utenti
11 recensioni
3.8
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Self-Criticism After the Defeat
di Sadik Al-Azm
16 utenti
4
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The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership
di Yehuda Avner
152 utenti
4 recensioni
½ 4.5
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
di Jimmy Carter
1,429 utenti
27 recensioni
½ 3.7
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
di Thomas E. Ricks
2,096 utenti
30 recensioni
4.1
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Gli Arabi
di Eugene Rogan
725 utenti
6 recensioni
4
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Islam and Politics (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
di John L. Esposito
65 utenti
3.8
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The Emergence of Modern Turkey
di Bernard Lewis
159 utenti
1 recensione
½ 3.7
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57
The History of Modern Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak
di P. J. Vatikiotis
34 utenti
1 recensione
3.2
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58
The Making of the Modern Near East 1792-1923
di Malcolm Yapp
61 utenti
3.8
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The Contemporary Middle East: A Westview Reader
di Karl Yambert
36 utenti
1 recensione
4
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avatiakh: student - many contemporary contributors
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La guerra dei sei giorni: giugno 1967: alle origini del conflitto arabo-israeliano
di Michael B. Oren
1,525 utenti
23 recensioni
4.1
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avatiakh: Reading list: week 7
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Britain's Moment in the Middle East 1914-1956
di Elizabeth Monroe
12 utenti
4
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A History of the Modern Middle East
di William L. Cleveland
687 utenti
6 recensioni
4
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63
The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
di Lee Smith
58 utenti
2 recensioni
4
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65
Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak
di Tarek Osman
89 utenti
2 recensioni
4
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Nasser: The Last Arab
di Said K. Aburish
50 utenti
1 recensione
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Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939
di Albert Hourani
166 utenti
1 recensione
3.8
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avatiakh: week 2
68
Nasser: A Political Biography
di Robert Stephens
10 utenti
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69
Colonising Egypt
di Timothy Mitchell
134 utenti
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The Middle East and the West
di Bernard Lewis
60 utenti
5
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Egyptian Service 1902-1946
di Sir Thomas Russell. Pasha
5 utenti
4
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Lebanon: A History, 600–2011
di William Harris
33 utenti
1 recensione
4
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Russell Pasha
di Ronald Seth
2 utenti
1 recensione
4
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74
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
di Avi Shlaim
435 utenti
6 recensioni
4
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75
La rivincita sciita: Iran, Iraq, Libano : la nuova mezzaluna
di Vali Nasr
620 utenti
9 recensioni
3.8
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76
The Vanished Imam: Musa Al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon
di Fouad Ajami
54 utenti
1 recensione
3
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avatiakh: Reading List week 6
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The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
di Taner Akçam
51 utenti
1 recensione
4
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avatiakh: student - an important contribution to the documentation of the Armenian Genocide
79
Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
di Barbara W. Tuchman
819 utenti
14 recensioni
½ 3.6
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The Mantle of the Prophet: religion and politics in Iran
di Roy Mottahedeh
265 utenti
4 recensioni
½ 4.4
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81
Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
di Shareen Blair Brysac
173 utenti
1 recensione
½ 3.7
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82
Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation (Issues & Debates)
di Ali Behdad
10 utenti
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83
The Middle East water question : hydropolitics and the global economy
di J. A. Allan
6 utenti
4
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84
Doing Visual Ethnography
di Sarah Pink
61 utenti
½ 3.3
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85
The Arab Awakening
di Tariq Ramadan
23 utenti
1 recensione
3
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86
Islam: A Very Short Introduction
di Malise Ruthven
650 utenti
4 recensioni
3.1
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87
Il suicidio dell'Islam: in che cosa ha sbagliato la civilta mediorientale
di Bernard Lewis
2,282 utenti
29 recensioni
½ 3.5
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88
Breve storia dell'Islam
di Adam J. Silverstein
201 utenti
1 recensione
½ 3.7
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89
Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East
di Matt Rees
39 utenti
2 recensioni
5
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90
Il mio Iran
di Shirin Ebadi
551 utenti
16 recensioni
4
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91
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
di Robert J. C. Young
477 utenti
4 recensioni
3.2
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92
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace
di Avi Shlaim
107 utenti
3 recensioni
½ 4.5
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93
Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
di Patricia Aufderheide
146 utenti
3.8
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96
Islam: A Short History
di Karen Armstrong
2,827 utenti
38 recensioni
½ 3.6
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97
Maometto: vita del Profeta
di Karen Armstrong
983 utenti
17 recensioni
½ 3.7
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98
Why Blame Israel?
di Neill Lochery
41 utenti
½ 2.7
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99
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
di Sandy Tolan
1,185 utenti
45 recensioni
4
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100
The View from the Fence: The Arab-Israeli Conflict from the Present to Its Roots
di Neill Lochery
6 utenti
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