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A landmark history of 100 years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history....

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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In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes listeners on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquests of Alexander the Great....

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances....

Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world while ignoring the other....

October 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The War was a trauma for Israel, a dangerous superpower showdown, and, following the oil embargo, a pivotal reordering of the global economic order....

This sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West sheds a revealing light on current hostilities....

In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback"....

This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein....

Palestine 1936 is the origin story of the world's most intractable conflict, but it is also more than that. It reveals world-changing events through extraordinary individuals on all sides....

In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel....

From the winter of 2006 through the spring of 2007, 250 marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, fought daily in the dangerous, dense city streets of Ramadi, Iraq....

This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization....

Authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions....

At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history....

The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israel’s DNA....

Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day....

Passing from lip to ear, the philosophies of Hermes Trismegistus have been passed down through thousands of years. Listen as this tradition continues in this audio compilation....

The history of the Emerald Tablets is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years B.C....

Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world's attention, aroused its imagination, and, lately, been the object of its opprobrium....

In the past five years, Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip....

Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking?....

A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and then the Turkish Republic against their Christian minorities from 1894 to 1924....

Ahed Tamimi is a world-renowned Palestinian activist, born and raised in the small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, which became a center of the resistance to Israeli occupation when an illegal, Jewish-only settlement blocked off its community spring....

Muestra la relación íntima entre Egipto e Hispania arqueológica, histórica, cultural, etnológicamente, lingüísticamente, etc. Esta edición traducida en la lengua española revela las raíces del Antiguo Egipto de los romaníes (gitanos) y la forma en que provocaron la civilización y orientalización de Hispania, en los últimos 6.000 años. El libro también presenta la relación íntima entre Egipto e Hispania desde un punto de vista arqueológico, histórico, cultural, etnológico, lingüístico etc. como resultado de la inmigración de los romaníes egipcios (gitanos) a Iberia. ...

Hoy en día, Persia es conocida como el país de Irán, pero hace mucho tiempo, Persia fue el hogar de varias tribus nómadas. Fue testigo del ascenso de muchos imperios y dinastías. Los asirios cayeron ante los medos, que allanaron el camino para la aparición del Imperio aqueménida, uno de los mayores imperios de la historia antigua.

Según muchos egiptólogos, los antiguos egipcios nunca consideraron dioses a los animales. En cambio, los consideraban la personificación de sus poderosas deidades, lo que explica por qué los egipcios representaban a menudo a sus antiguos dioses con cabezas de animales.

Una revisión tan clara como urgente a la historia y la actualidad del doloroso conflicto entre Palestina e Israel.

El Periodo Dinástico Temprano abarca los cinco siglos que preceden a la construcción de la Gran Pirámide de Giza. Este fue el periodo de formación de la antigua civilización egipcia, y fue testigo de la creación de una cultura distintiva que perduraría durante 3000 años. En este audiolibro se examina los antecedentes de este gran logro, los mecanismos por los que se llevó a cabo y el carácter de la vida en el valle del Nilo durante los primeros 500 años de gobierno faraónico.