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In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad - the Israeli secret service. Providing a front for covert night-time activities, the holiday village allowed the agents to carry out an operation unlike any seen before. What began with one cryptic message pleading for help, turned into the secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews....

In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the 18th century - the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams - and an America seen by Iranians as an ideal to emulate for their own government.

This audiobook goes beyond the well-trodden tales of grand pyramids and Cleopatra's drama, digging deep into the secrets buried beneath centuries of sand and silence.

Enquêtes de toepasbaarheid van de Egyptische kosmologische concepten om onze moderne begrip van de aard van het heelal, creatie, wetenschap en filosofie. Deze in het Nederlands vertaalde Editie onderzoekt de toepasbaarheid van de Egyptische kosmologische concepten op het begrip dat we nu hebben van de aard, oorsprong, wetenschap en filosofie van het universum. Egyptische kosmologie is humanistisch, coherent, compleet, consistent, logisch, analytisch en rationeel. Ontdek het Egyptische concept van universele energie matrix en de verhalen rond het creatieproces.

Few countries have had as vexed a political history as Syria. Syria's subsequent history has been a series of attempts to make sense of its borders, including a failed attempt in the late 1950s to unite with Egypt and several humiliations at the hands of Israel's armed forces. It has been a satellite of France, an ally of the USSR, and, most recently, torn apart by a civil war that has now been in turn subverted by the rise of the Islamic State, an entity that refuses to acknowledge any of Syria's existing borders.

Over the span of a thousand years, armies, missionaries, and merchants carried it to the edges of Europe, the coasts of Southeast Asia and the remote interior of China. From the Arab caliphate to the Mongol empire, from West Africa to the Philippines, Islam was a world-shaping force. In Worlds of Islam, historian James McDougall charts the epic global story of Islam's origins and transformations, as Muslims adapted to their changing times from late antiquity to the digital age, constantly remaking their own worlds as the wider world around them changed.

Le dichiarazioni pubbliche del Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri Giorgia Meloni sulla prematurità del riconoscimento dello Stato Palestinese sono un clamoroso autogol politico, storico, culturale e diplomatico.

Modern Syria has seen violence, repression, and autocracy, suffering through tragedy after tragedy over the past century. Yet the history of Syria is not just a tale of dictators and generals. From the 1800s to the 2020s, the Syrian people have engaged in a passionate struggle for justice, equality, and a better future. Whether fighting for national independence from French colonial rule, battling local landowning elites to share of the country’s wealth, or rising up against the Assad regime, the Syrian people have fiercely clung to their right to live with respect and dignity.

"לא נלך על זה" (ראש הממשלה גולדה מאיר להנרי קיסינג'ר, שהפציר בה לקבל את יוזמת השלום המצרית, 28 בפברואר 1973) "רק זה חסר לי" (גולדה מאיר, ששה באוקטובר 1973, עם תחילתה של מלחמת...

Pretendo lançar luz sobre os principais acontecimentos, personalidades e processos desde a chegada dos primeiros colonos judeus à Palestina histórica até os nossos dias, a fim de explicar por que esse conflito se tornou tão difícil de gerenciar. Espero que as injustiças infligidas aos palestinos por mais de um século inspirem os leitores, onde quer que estejam, a se solidarizar com sua luta e a se posicionar contra sua opressão.

Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide Bad dismantles Zionist propaganda and maps a course towards collective liberation in ten unapologetic essays.

Após o fatídico 7 de outubro de 2023, estopim de mais uma sangrenta etapa do conflito entre Israel e Palestina, estatísticas e uma profusão de imagens em torno da escalada de vítimas fatais inundam o noticiário global, num processo em que crianças, homens e mulheres se tornam conhecidos somente a partir da morte — e não da vida.

Decoding Hieroglyphs and Other Ancient Scripts is a fascinating journey into how archaeologists and language experts have unlocked the voices of long-lost civilisations. Written with clarity, warmth, and historical insight, this book brings to life the greatest codebreaking adventures in human history. From the majestic hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt to the wedge-shaped impressions of Mesopotamian cuneiform, from the elegant Mayan glyphs to the cryptic symbols of Linear B and Rongorongo, this book explores how some of humanity’s oldest writings were invented, used, lost—and then rediscovered.

We know David Grossman's voice of ringing moral clarity from way back: since the late 1980s and The Yellow Wind, his classic work on the urgency of the two-state solution and the price paid by both occupier and occupied, he has been criticizing his country's government and pushing for paths to a lasting peace. Just after October 7th, 2023, he retreated inwards to ask himself anew these difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation:

With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal collision between two peoples in the Middle East and its repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied--as well as in the conscience of the West.

Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor.

In this moving memoir of growing up Gaza with a hunger for freedom and a passionate attachment to the places she calls home, journalist, writer, and activist, Alghoul recounts her lifelong resistance to religious fanaticism, state sponsored violence, and all forms of repression and subjugation. Offering an intimate look into life, politics, and survival in Gaza in recent years, Alghoul's A Rebel in Gaza offers listeners a nuanced and singular perspective on the current conflict.

Uncover the mysteries of ancient Egypt in Egyptian Mythology for Beginners: 5 Short Stories of Ancient Gods and Underworld Legends—a captivating, beginner-friendly journey into the sacred myths that shaped one of history’s most fascinating civilizations. Drawing directly from authentic sources like the Pyramid Texts, Book of the Dead, and temple inscriptions, this audiobook faithfully retells the core legends of Egypt's gods, goddesses, and the mystical realm beyond death.

De vijfjarige Milad Salama is met zijn klas op schoolreisje naar een speelparadijs vlak bij Jeruzalem als de schoolbus in botsing komt met een vrachtwagen en in brand vliegt. De Palestijn Abed raakt verstrikt in een bureaucratisch doolhof. Hij bevindt zich aan de verkeerde kant van de muur, heeft niet het vereiste identiteitsbewijs om de militaire controleposten te passeren en kan Jeruzalem niet in. Hij heeft geen idee waar zijn zoon is.

This is an initiation into the tone, structure, and mentality of Egyptian knowledge, the basis of all Western theology and science. It is a redefinition of those concepts which are basic to the pharaonic transmission—the glory of ancient Egypt. The author explores the "process of becoming" as related to consciousness and revealed in nature; the kinship between man and the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms; the stages of awareness leading to "Cosmic Consciousness"; and the mystery of the formation of substance into matter.