The Emergence of the Modern Middle East

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De arabiske folks historie

af Albert Hourani

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A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East

af James Barr

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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

af David Fromkin

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Mellemøstens historie i de seneste 2000 år

af Bernard Lewis

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Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present

af Michael B. Oren

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Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

af Michael Korda

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Forklaringer: aulsmith: I recently read this. Excellent book and very helpful in understanding some of the current problems in the Middle East.

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Orientalisme : vestlige forestillinger om Orienten

af Edward W. Said

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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate

af Tom Segev

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The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda

af Yaroslav Trofimov

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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

af Scott Anderson

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The Modern Middle East: A Reader

af Albert Hourani

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1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

af Benny Morris

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Al-Qaida - vejen til 11. september

af Lawrence Wright

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Forklaringer: avatiakh: student - gives perspective to how events of the last half of the 20th century have shaped and spawned global terrorism in the middle east and abroad in the last three decades.

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Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism 1920-1945

af Philip S. Khoury

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Islam and the West

af Bernard Lewis

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Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad

af Gordon Thomas

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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

af Ari Shavit

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

af Lucette Lagnado

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Israel Has Moved

af Diana Pinto

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Suez 1956: The Inside Story of the First Oil War

af Barry Turner

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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

af Tom Holland

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The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

af Yoram Peri

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Jerusalem: The Biography

af Simon Sebag-Montefiore

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The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism

af Hamid Dabashi

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Napoleon in Egypt

af Paul Strathern

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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

af Tamim Ansary

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Forklaringer: avatiakh: student - reaches beyond the Middle East to chronicle the history of the entire Islamic world

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The Greatness that was Babylon

af H. W. F. Saggs

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Oh Jerusalem

af Larry Collins

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Visdommens syv søjler : en triumf

af T. E. Lawrence

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Second Person Singular

af Sayed Kashua

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Forklaringer: avatiakh: student - fiction about Jewish and Israeli-Arab identity in modern Israel

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