Author: Hamdi Hassan
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745314112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
To what extent has religion, identity and ‘otherness’ facilitated and accelerated armed conflict in the Middle East?
The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Author: Hamdi Hassan
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745314112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
To what extent has religion, identity and ‘otherness’ facilitated and accelerated armed conflict in the Middle East?
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745314112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
To what extent has religion, identity and ‘otherness’ facilitated and accelerated armed conflict in the Middle East?
Invasion Kuwait
Author: Jehan S. Rajab
Publisher: Radcliffe Press
ISBN: 9781860640698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the form of a journal, this book tells the story of the author's experiences in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion. Jehan Rajab chronicles her fight to preserve normality in the face of persecution and to save the Tareq Rajab Museum, her workplace, from destruction.
Publisher: Radcliffe Press
ISBN: 9781860640698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the form of a journal, this book tells the story of the author's experiences in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion. Jehan Rajab chronicles her fight to preserve normality in the face of persecution and to save the Tareq Rajab Museum, her workplace, from destruction.
Saddam's War of Words
Author: Jerry M. Long
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292702646
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
From a Western perspective, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 largely fulfilled the first President Bush's objective: "In, out, do it, do it right, get gone. That's the message." But in the Arab world, the causes and consequences of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and his subsequent defeat by a U.S.-led coalition were never so clear-cut. The potent blend of Islam and Arab nationalism that Saddam forged to justify the unjustifiable—his invasion of a Muslim state—gained remarkable support among both Muslims and Arabs and continued to resonate in the Middle East long after the fighting ended. Indeed, as this study argues in passing, it became a significant strand in the tangled web of ideologies and actions that led to the attacks of 9/11. This landmark book offers the first in-depth investigation of how Saddam Hussein used Islam and Arab nationalism to legitimate his invasion of Kuwait in the eyes of fellow Muslims and Arabs, while delegitimating the actions of the U.S.-led coalition and its Arab members. Jerry M. Long addresses three fundamental issues: how extensively and in what specific ways Iraq appealed to Islam during the Kuwait crisis; how elites, Islamists, and the elusive Arab "street," both in and out of the coalition, responded to that appeal and why they responded as they did; and the longer-term effects that resulted from Saddam's strategy.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292702646
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
From a Western perspective, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 largely fulfilled the first President Bush's objective: "In, out, do it, do it right, get gone. That's the message." But in the Arab world, the causes and consequences of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and his subsequent defeat by a U.S.-led coalition were never so clear-cut. The potent blend of Islam and Arab nationalism that Saddam forged to justify the unjustifiable—his invasion of a Muslim state—gained remarkable support among both Muslims and Arabs and continued to resonate in the Middle East long after the fighting ended. Indeed, as this study argues in passing, it became a significant strand in the tangled web of ideologies and actions that led to the attacks of 9/11. This landmark book offers the first in-depth investigation of how Saddam Hussein used Islam and Arab nationalism to legitimate his invasion of Kuwait in the eyes of fellow Muslims and Arabs, while delegitimating the actions of the U.S.-led coalition and its Arab members. Jerry M. Long addresses three fundamental issues: how extensively and in what specific ways Iraq appealed to Islam during the Kuwait crisis; how elites, Islamists, and the elusive Arab "street," both in and out of the coalition, responded to that appeal and why they responded as they did; and the longer-term effects that resulted from Saddam's strategy.
War in the Gulf
Author: Thomas B. Allen
Publisher: Turner Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Gives an quthoritative, full-color chronicle of the Gulf War.
Publisher: Turner Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Gives an quthoritative, full-color chronicle of the Gulf War.
Desert Storm
Author: E. R. Hooton
Publisher: Middle East@War
ISBN: 9781911628224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Desert Storm' reveals the whole war fought between Iraq and an international coalition, from the start of this campaign to its very end. This book offers a refreshing insight into this unique conflict.
Publisher: Middle East@War
ISBN: 9781911628224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Desert Storm' reveals the whole war fought between Iraq and an international coalition, from the start of this campaign to its very end. This book offers a refreshing insight into this unique conflict.
Lucky War
Author: Richard Moody Swain
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788178652
Category : Persian Gulf War, 1991
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Provides an account, from the point of view of the U.S. Army forces employed, of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait to the withdrawal of coalition forces from southeastern Iraq. It focuses on the Army's part in this war, particularly the activities of the Headquarters, Third Army, and the Army Forces Central Command (ARCENT). It looks especially at the activities of the VII Corps, which executed ARCENT's main effort in the theater ground force schwerpunkt -- General Schwarzkopf's "Great Wheel." This is not an official history; the author speaks in his own voice and makes his own judgments. Maps.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788178652
Category : Persian Gulf War, 1991
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Provides an account, from the point of view of the U.S. Army forces employed, of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait to the withdrawal of coalition forces from southeastern Iraq. It focuses on the Army's part in this war, particularly the activities of the Headquarters, Third Army, and the Army Forces Central Command (ARCENT). It looks especially at the activities of the VII Corps, which executed ARCENT's main effort in the theater ground force schwerpunkt -- General Schwarzkopf's "Great Wheel." This is not an official history; the author speaks in his own voice and makes his own judgments. Maps.
The Kuwait Crisis
Author: E. Lauterpacht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521463089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This volume of documents relates to the legal aspects of the international crisis arising out of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1996.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521463089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This volume of documents relates to the legal aspects of the international crisis arising out of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1996.
The Gulf War
Author: Captivating History
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781647484989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The late 1980s and early 1990s were times of significant changes.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781647484989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The late 1980s and early 1990s were times of significant changes.
Flight 149
Author: Stephen Davis
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 154170004X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A gripping, real-life drama that reveals the true story of a plane full of unsuspecting passengers who landed in a war zone and were delivered into the hands of a murderous dictator. On August 1, 1990, Flight 149 was scheduled for its routine London-to-Kuala Lumpur run. But when the plane, carrying 385 passengers and crew, landed at a Kuwait airport to refuel that day, it was surrounded by Iraqi tanks and about to be bombed by fighter jets. The passengers and crew were kept as hostages and suffered brutal treatment including violent attacks, sexual assaults, and mock executions. When the survivors were eventually released, they were never told why their plane landed in the middle of an invasion, or who a mysterious team of late arrivals on the flight might have been. Their story was overshadowed by the ensuing Gulf War. Until now. In Flight 149, Stephen Davis draws on unique witness accounts from the hostages, and uncovers the lies and coverups orchestrated by the British secret service and CIA. This story reveals an astonishing misuse of intelligence that changed the course of history and forever altered the relationship between the West and the Middle East.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 154170004X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A gripping, real-life drama that reveals the true story of a plane full of unsuspecting passengers who landed in a war zone and were delivered into the hands of a murderous dictator. On August 1, 1990, Flight 149 was scheduled for its routine London-to-Kuala Lumpur run. But when the plane, carrying 385 passengers and crew, landed at a Kuwait airport to refuel that day, it was surrounded by Iraqi tanks and about to be bombed by fighter jets. The passengers and crew were kept as hostages and suffered brutal treatment including violent attacks, sexual assaults, and mock executions. When the survivors were eventually released, they were never told why their plane landed in the middle of an invasion, or who a mysterious team of late arrivals on the flight might have been. Their story was overshadowed by the ensuing Gulf War. Until now. In Flight 149, Stephen Davis draws on unique witness accounts from the hostages, and uncovers the lies and coverups orchestrated by the British secret service and CIA. This story reveals an astonishing misuse of intelligence that changed the course of history and forever altered the relationship between the West and the Middle East.
Taken by Storm
Author: W. Lance Bennett
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226042596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
American politics and political economy series.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226042596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
American politics and political economy series.