Middle East | Middle East
Apr.03.2009
Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns:"Ansary has written an informative and thoroughly engaging look at the past, present and future of Islam. With his seamless and charming prose, he challenges conventional wisdom and appeals for a fuller understanding of how...
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Feb.22.2009
In this gripping, in-the-trenches account of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, award-winning journalist Matt Rees takes us deep within Israeli and Palestinian societies to reveal the fractures at the core of both. While the world focuses almost exclusively on the violent clash between the two camps...
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Feb.22.2009
A member of the tiny but ancient Samaritan community has been murdered. The dead man controlled hundreds of millions of dollars of government money. If the World Bank cannot locate it within the next several days, all aid money to the Palestinians will be cut off. Visiting Nablus, Omar Yussef must...
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Feb.22.2009
In A Grave in Gaza, Omar Yussef and his boss,Magnus Wallender, travel to the Gaza Strip for a routine inspection of the UN schools in the Gaza refugee camps.Upon their arrival they learn that a teacher at one of their schools has been accused of spying and imprisoned. As they try to free the...
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Feb.22.2009
The murder of a leader of the Palestinian Martyrs Brigade leads to the arrest of George Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating with the Israelis. Omar Yussef, a modest history teacher at a United Nations school in the West Bank, is impelled to investigate the murder to exonerate his...
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Dec.21.2008
This debut is a stunner ... rendered so authentically it had us shaking the sand out of our shoes ... Lifting the flap on Bedouin tents, Hamilton peers into the Arabic village of Ein Fadr, a land seething with long-held tensions and filled with extremes that entice. – PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY (STARRED...
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Aug.28.2008
One wish remains. Zubis, a djinni cursed in the time of Solomon, has waited 3,000 years for his freedom. Bethany O'Brien, an American journalist who is bound by her own ambitions, is linked to Zubis by an ancient betrayal. She will track Zubis across Europe and into the heart of the Middle East in...
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Jun.16.2008
Every president since Lyndon Johnson has reiterated the U.S. commitment to maintain Israel's qualitative military edge (QME). The principle behind this commitment is simple: Israel is a bastion of liberal, representative government in the Middle East and, as such, its survival is a vital U.S....
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Jun.16.2008
The U.S. commitment to maintain Israel's qualitative military edge (QME) -- that is, the technological, tactical, and other advantages that allow it to deter numerically superior adversaries -- is a longstanding tradition that every president since Lyndon Johnson has reiterated. Today, however,...
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Jun.07.2008
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Long War, as the Global War on Terrorism is now known, is the cultural environment in which it is being fought. In truth, however, the US Army has routinely operated in unfamiliar cultural environments throughout its long history. The conditions in...
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