Author: Harold Richard Patrick Dickson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Kuwait and Her Neighbours
Author: Harold Richard Patrick Dickson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Kuwait and Her Neighbors
Author: Harold Richard Patrick Dickson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979108488
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979108488
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Kuwait, 1945-1996
Author: Miriam Joyce
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113522806X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Based on extensive research of British documents from the Public Records Office, and American documents from the National Archives and several Presidential Libraries, this book surveys events in Kuwait from the beginning of the twentieth century until the Second World War, and explains Britain's initial interest in the ruling al-Sabah family, before focusing on the post-1945 period.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113522806X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Based on extensive research of British documents from the Public Records Office, and American documents from the National Archives and several Presidential Libraries, this book surveys events in Kuwait from the beginning of the twentieth century until the Second World War, and explains Britain's initial interest in the ruling al-Sabah family, before focusing on the post-1945 period.
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
Author: Yossi Klein Halevi
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062968661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
New York Times bestseller Now with a new Epilogue, containing letters of response from Palestinian readers. "A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes. I call you "neighbor" because I don’t know your name, or anything personal about you. Given our circumstances, "neighbor" might be too casual a word to describe our relationship. We are intruders into each other’s dream, violators of each other’s sense of home. We are incarnations of each other’s worst historical nightmares. Neighbors? Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is one Israeli’s powerful attempt to reach beyond the wall that separates Israelis and Palestinians and into the hearts of "the enemy." In a series of letters, Yossi Klein Halevi explains what motivated him to leave his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to participate in the drama of the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he is committed to see succeed as a morally responsible, democratic state in the Middle East. This is the first attempt by an Israeli author to directly address his Palestinian neighbors and describe how the conflict appears through Israeli eyes. Halevi untangles the ideological and emotional knot that has defined the conflict for nearly a century. In lyrical, evocative language, he unravels the complex strands of faith, pride, anger and anguish he feels as a Jew living in Israel, using history and personal experience as his guide. Halevi’s letters speak not only to his Palestinian neighbor, but to all concerned global citizens, helping us understand the painful choices confronting Israelis and Palestinians that will ultimately help determine the fate of the region.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062968661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
New York Times bestseller Now with a new Epilogue, containing letters of response from Palestinian readers. "A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes. I call you "neighbor" because I don’t know your name, or anything personal about you. Given our circumstances, "neighbor" might be too casual a word to describe our relationship. We are intruders into each other’s dream, violators of each other’s sense of home. We are incarnations of each other’s worst historical nightmares. Neighbors? Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is one Israeli’s powerful attempt to reach beyond the wall that separates Israelis and Palestinians and into the hearts of "the enemy." In a series of letters, Yossi Klein Halevi explains what motivated him to leave his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to participate in the drama of the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he is committed to see succeed as a morally responsible, democratic state in the Middle East. This is the first attempt by an Israeli author to directly address his Palestinian neighbors and describe how the conflict appears through Israeli eyes. Halevi untangles the ideological and emotional knot that has defined the conflict for nearly a century. In lyrical, evocative language, he unravels the complex strands of faith, pride, anger and anguish he feels as a Jew living in Israel, using history and personal experience as his guide. Halevi’s letters speak not only to his Palestinian neighbor, but to all concerned global citizens, helping us understand the painful choices confronting Israelis and Palestinians that will ultimately help determine the fate of the region.
Small Kingdoms
Author: Anastasia Hobbet
Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
ISBN: 9781579621919
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Set in Kuwait during the ominous years between the two Gulf wars, Small Kingdoms traces the intersecting lives of five people--rich and poor, native and foreigner, Muslim, Christian, and non-believer--when they discover that a teenaged Indian housemaid is being brutally abused by her employer.
Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
ISBN: 9781579621919
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Set in Kuwait during the ominous years between the two Gulf wars, Small Kingdoms traces the intersecting lives of five people--rich and poor, native and foreigner, Muslim, Christian, and non-believer--when they discover that a teenaged Indian housemaid is being brutally abused by her employer.
Kuwait in Pictures
Author: Francesca Davis DiPiazza
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0822565897
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Describes the geography, climate, wildlife, natural resources, history, politics, culture, economy, and government of Kuwait.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0822565897
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Describes the geography, climate, wildlife, natural resources, history, politics, culture, economy, and government of Kuwait.
Kuwait and Her Neighbours
Author: Harold Richard Patrick Dickson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Kuwait and Al-Sabah
Author: Rivka Azoulay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838605061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century. The discovery of oil in 1938 rapidly transformed the tiny tribal sheikhdom of the Al-Sabah into a modern oil-producing state where, by the early 1980s, citizens were enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world. While much has been written on the reasons why and how the Al-Sabah became a ruling dynasty, little is known about the nature of their authority and its relationship to Kuwait's social structure. Rivka Azoulay shows how despite the rapidity of change in the oil-rich, family-run emirate, it is the pre-oil dynamics of social and political life that dictate how society operates. The author shows that Kuwait's ambitious diversification plans to reduce oil-dependence by 2035 require a renegotiation of the regime's pact with society, which threatens the pre-oil alliances upon which the Al-Sabah's regime has been built.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838605061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century. The discovery of oil in 1938 rapidly transformed the tiny tribal sheikhdom of the Al-Sabah into a modern oil-producing state where, by the early 1980s, citizens were enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world. While much has been written on the reasons why and how the Al-Sabah became a ruling dynasty, little is known about the nature of their authority and its relationship to Kuwait's social structure. Rivka Azoulay shows how despite the rapidity of change in the oil-rich, family-run emirate, it is the pre-oil dynamics of social and political life that dictate how society operates. The author shows that Kuwait's ambitious diversification plans to reduce oil-dependence by 2035 require a renegotiation of the regime's pact with society, which threatens the pre-oil alliances upon which the Al-Sabah's regime has been built.
Neighbors, Not Friends
Author: Dilip Hiro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113452434X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
This is an essential overview to the conflicts in the Gulf, and should be read by anyone with an interest in the region, its politics and its interactions with the US and UN.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113452434X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
This is an essential overview to the conflicts in the Gulf, and should be read by anyone with an interest in the region, its politics and its interactions with the US and UN.
High Desert Haven
Author: Lynnette Bonner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942982029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A desperate need. Malicious adversaries. Enticing love. Step into a day when outlaws ran free, the land was wild, and guns blazed at the drop of a hat.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942982029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A desperate need. Malicious adversaries. Enticing love. Step into a day when outlaws ran free, the land was wild, and guns blazed at the drop of a hat.