中東

The birth of South Sudan was celebrated the world round. But the celebration would not last. Drawing on extraordinary personal stories of identity, liberation, and survival, this narrative tells an epic story of paradise won and then lost....

Two-time Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state....

The gripping chronicle of the rise of Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler....

First published in the early days of the Iraq War, Why Are We at War? is an explosive argument about the American quest for empire that still carries weight today....

The situation in Egypt sounds messy today, but strife in Egypt is hardly a new occurrence. In fact, conflict has been more of a rule than exception since the end of the 18th century....

　知識はあっても、何となくスッキリしない中東・イスラムをめぐる理解。
　中東では今も宗派対立と大国の利害が錯綜している。まずは、この地域の国々の文化、歴史を大まかに知ることで危機の本質を把握する必要がありそうだ。原油価格の下落は産油国の経済に大きな変革を迫ると同時に、世界の金融危機の火種にもなりかねない。
　本書では、中東の専門家が文化、宗教、歴史、国際政治、紛争、経済などのテーマを誌

Until his assassination by US drone strike in January 2020, commander Qassem Soleimani was one of the most powerful men in Iran and the military spearhead for Iranian foreign policy, enacting the wishes of the country's Supreme Leader in the region....

内容紹介:現代における私たちの宇宙の性質,創世神話,科学と哲学の理解に対し,エジプトの宇宙学的概念がどのように適用することができるのかを模索する....

エジプトの錬金術とスーフィズムの基礎としきたりについての簡潔・明瞭な解説を提供します。....

The history of the tablets translated in the following book is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years.

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At the conclusion of World War I, a once promised unified Arab state did not materialize....

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Justin Scheck and Bradley Hope, this revelatory look at the world's most powerful ruling family reveals how a rift within Saudi Arabian royalty produced Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a charismatic leader with a ruthless streak....

The city may be a hothouse of decadence, a den of inequity, all that. But it still exists under the watchful eye of a very unique entity, the Islamic Republic....

Internationally renowned political commentator Noam Chomsky examines America's pursuit and exercise of power in a post-9/11 world....

The first comprehensive, inside account of arguably the most widely reported yet least understood war in American history - from the occupation of Iraq to the withdrawal of American troops....

In this pause-resisting, eye-opening audiobook, journalist and military analyst Ronen Bergman - praised by David Remnick as 'arguably [Israel's] best investigative reporter' - offers a riveting inside account of the targeted killing programs....

Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and more stable nations....

At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times....

New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman has drawn on his decade in the Middle East to produce the most trenchant, vivid, and thought-provoking book yet on the region....

For over 3,000 years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilisation....

The Mamluks of Egypt, a group of warriors, slaves, and kings. Hailing from the Eurasian steppes, the Mamluks were not Arab, but ethnically Turkish, enslaved at a young age, and sold into military service in Egypt, where they underwent intense military training in Cairo....

A witty tale of one man's political coming of age and a stinging indictment of the hypocrisy that prevailed at the heart of one of the world's most idealistic institutions....

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages....

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day, and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations....

In addition to Hamas, which provoked the recent war, and Gaza with its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, Alan Dershowitz argues that Israel's most dangerous enemies include Jimmy Carter and other western leaders....

This fully updated edition of Barry Cunliffe's classic study of the ancient Celtic world presents new finds, new ways of using DNA records to understand Celtic origins, and new ideas about the proto-urban nature of early chieftains' strongholds....

Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. This Who Was...? explains the life and times of this ancient Egyptian ruler....