Bøger om Arabiske halvø

Dr. William Agunwa's, Jobs for the Boys is an exploration of oil and its effects on Saudi Arabia throughout the 20th century,told through a mosaic of stories set between 1930 and 1980.In Jobs for the Boys, we are merely observers on an intimate journey; not just of through the eyes of the young Arabs struggling to use and understand their newfound oil wealth, or the Saudi princes who both help and hinder them, but also through the first-hand experiences of the foreign oilmen brought in to live and do business in a wild, changing land.With thrilling moments of crystal cultural clarity, confusion of consciousness, and extremely radical Islamic idealism, Jobs for the Boys will change the way you understand Saudi Arabia."Ultimately, Jobs for the Boys is the tale of about a resource. An ocean of oil, hidden under the sand."- LT Force, Bookchurch"This is not the story of one life but of many lives which, taken together, are history."- The Book Guild

With first-hand insight into the into the key role of the US Air Force's fighter-bomber from the Vietnam War through to Operation Desert Storm during the First Gulf War, this book is an unmissable account of some of the most dangerous and demanding missions in the two wars.The advent of the surface-to-air missile (SAM) in the early 1950s threatened the whole concept of aerial bombing from medium and high altitude. Countermeasures were developed during the Korean War, but with little initial success. It was only in the closing stages of the Vietnam War, with the F-4Cww Phantom II (Wild Weasel 4), that this equipment started to become successful enough to allow a substantial investment in converting 116 F-4E Phantom IIs into dedicated SEAD aircraft. This move introduced a new generation of anti-radar missiles which became invaluable in later operations including operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Northern Watch over Iraq. This volume features dynamic archival photography from crews who flew the jet, alongside mission accounts and technical details of the development and fielding of the F-4 Wild Weasel in its various iterations. Including specially commissioned artwork of 'sharkmouthed' Phantom IIs in Vietnam jungle camouflage and more modern USAF 'Ghost Gray', this book is the ultimate visual and technical guide to the F-4 Phantom II Wild Weasel Units in combat.

';A genuinely paradigm-shifting work by one of the most exciting and innovative scholars in the field... compelling and powerful...' Reza Aslan Arab noblewomen of late antiquity were instrumental in shaping the history of the world. Between Rome's intervention in the Arabian Peninsula and the Arab conquests, they ruled independently, conducting trade and making war. Their power was celebrated as queen, priestess and goddess. With time some even delegated authority to the most important holy men of their age, influencing Arabian paganism, Christianity and Islam. Empress Zenobia and Queen Mavia supported bishops Paul of Samosata and Moses of Sinai. Paul was declared a heretic by the Roman church, while Moses began the process of mass Arab conversion. The teachings of these men survived under their queens, setting in motion seismic debates that fractured the early churches and laid the groundwork for the rise of Islam. In sixth-century Mecca, Lady Khadijah used her wealth and political influence to employ a younger man then marry him against the wishes of dissenting noblemen. Her husband, whose religious and political career she influenced, was the Prophet Muhammad. A landmark exploration of the legacy of female power in late antique Arabia, Queens and Prophets is a corrective that is long overdue.

This book presents a study of politico-ideological mobilisation and violence by focusing on the life stories, trajectories and narratives of individuals who mobilised for causes and conflicts in the Arab World. It provides a greater understanding of the biographical, sociological, political and historic factors pertinent for their radicalisation processes.What makes individuals identify with suffering and injustice, often of others and elsewhere? Why do individuals feel the need to stand up in the first place and how does violent action become a justifiable or necessary course of action? Why and how do they disengage from violence? This book, based on interviews conducted in Lebanon, Switzerland, and Canada, answers these questions. It presents new theoretical insights about politico-ideological mobilisation and violence. By focusing on grievances and grounding analysis in the empirical reality as it is shared and narratively constructed by those who are at the heart of the phenomenon, it moves beyond the moralistic and politicised debates that characterise the field. Interviewees include non-violent and violent engagement for causes and conflicts related to the Arab World, such as sympathisers or members of groups and causes from a variety of ideological orientations, including Shiite militias, Salafi-jihadist groups, radical left-wing groups, Palestine-specific, Kurdish groups, and others such as right-wing or unspecified affiliations. By choosing individuals with different forms of political engagement, both non-violent and violent, and different ideological orientations, it helps readers to get a better grasp of how similar grievances may lead to different outcomes. In focusing on three markedly different geopolitical contexts, the book also provides a crosscontextual understanding of mobilisation for political and violent action. The interviewees also include experts and peripheral actors such as professionals, researchers, policymakers, friends, or family members. Their perspectives complement and enrich some of the findings by providing external yet in-depth 'expert knowledge'.Politico-ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World will be of great interest to criminologists, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars interested in the study of terrorism, radicalisation and extremism. It will also appeal to journalists, policymakers, practitioners working in the field.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

This book is an honest objective presentation of the causes of the Arab calamities and social destruction. The author touches on countless areas of Arab struggle. His analytical approach of the Arab plight is presented with the purity and uprightness of character. His criticism of the Arab rulers is free from misrepresentation. The absurdity of the Arab governing system is presented without distortion or falsification. The erroneous governing system of the Arab rulers is tackled with strong mental powers disciplined by thoughtfulness. The author's intellect demonstrates extensive knowledge of the Arab idiocy in foreign politics. He exposed the falsehood of the Arab rulers and tested their setback by the doctrines of the Quran as a sole path for salvation. The clearness and power with which the writer presented the drawbacks of the Arab rulers convinces the readers' understanding and the author's fervor touches their hearts.Publicity ReleaseThe author advances a winning eloquence combined with the purity and uprightness of character. He has a commanding narrative style that grabs attention easily. His words are free from pride, and misrepresentation. The eloquence of the writer and the smoothness of his expression captivate the reader and his fervor touches their hearts. The idiocy, treason, and plundering of the Arab rulers are incisively exposed. Without passion or excitement the author has tested human theories and religious doctrines by the Quran. Through a sound knowledge of the Arab mentality and the faith of Islam, the author contests the errors of the Arab ruling systems and exposes the deception of the Arab rulers. Earnest are the efforts the author put forth to draw away the Arab minds from corruption and ungodly lusts. About the AuthorDr. Atif Yusuf is a retired professor. He earned his PhD from University of Houston, TX. As a professor he worked for over 32 years in many US and Middle Eastern universities. The most recent position he held before retirement was "education development consultant" and "education quality-assurance advisor". He published several books on theoretical linguistics, translation art, and foreign language acquisition. Socio politics is his main passion of research interest.

"In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle Eastern. Nevertheless, Youssef is keeping a secret: he sees a hallucinatory double, an imaginary friend who seems absolutely real, a shapeshifting familiar he calls Brother. The boys' adoptive father, Imam Salim, is known for his radical sermons, but at home he is often absent, spending long evenings in his study with whiskey-laced coffee, writing letters to his former compatriots back in Saudi Arabia. Like Youssef, he too has secrets, including the cause of his failing health and the truth about what happened to the boys' parents. When Imam Salim's path takes him back to Saudi Arabia, the boys will be forced to follow. There they will be captivated by an opulent, almost futuristic world, a linear city that seems to offer a more sustainable modernity than that of the West. But they will have to change if they want to survive in this new world, and the arrival of a creature as powerful as Brother will not go unnoticed. Stylistically brilliant and intellectually acute, Brother Alive is a remarkable novel of family, capitalism, power, sexuality, and the possibility of reunion for those who are broken"--

One of Newsweek's Ten Best Books of the YearIn this penetrating and provocative look at the state of contemporary Israel, acclaimed Israeli historian and journalist Gershom Gorenberg reveals how the nation's policies are undermining its democracy and existence as a Jewish state, and explains what must be done to bring it back from the brink. Refuting shrill defenses of Israel and equally strident attacks, Gorenberg shows that the Jewish state is, in fact, unique among countries born in the postcolonial era: it began as a parliamentary democracy and has remained one. Yet shortsighted policies, unintended consequences, and its refusal to heed warnings now threaten its many accomplishments.Based on groundbreaking historical research and a quarter century of experience reporting in the region, The Unmaking of Israel is a brilliant, deeply personal critique by a progressive Israeli, and a plea for realizing the nation's potential.

A century on from the Paris Peace Conference that redrew the map of the Middle East, and the region has endured constant conflict. Alongside the military and economic wars, the West and Arab states have fought to control public opinion by managing the narratives that explain and validate their actions. This story charts the often hidden information war, from the propaganda coup of the entry of British forces into Jerusalem in 1917 to the campaign of perception management that sold the case for regime change in Saddam's Iraq in 2003. As the West has embraced the abstractions of public diplomacy and soft power, the propagandists of Islamic State have developed global reach and impact using a simple message and cutting edge digital and social media to generate publicity and harvest recruits. In the Trump era of fake news, media manipulation, and cyber warfare, the battle to control public opinion in the post Arab Spring Middle East has raised the stakes for winners and losers.

Timely and provocative, Generation Freedom looks at the historic youth uprisings sweeping the Middle East and what they mean for the future of peace, coexistence, and relations with the West.At a time when the world is asking how the Arab Spring and the death of Osama bin Laden will reshape our times, Bruce Feiler, bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham, offers a vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of history in the making. He marches with the daring young organizers in Liberation Square, confronts the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, and witnesses the dramatic rebuilding of a church at exactly the moment sectarian violence threatens the peaceful movement. Drawing on fifteen years of travels across the region, from Egypt to Israel, Iraq to Iran, Feiler brings his unprecedented experience to the most pressing questions: how the rise of freedom will affect terrorism; Middle East peace; and relations among Jews, Christians, and Muslims worldwide. Eloquent and thoughtful, Generation Freedom offers a hopeful vision of how this unrivaled upheaval will transform the world.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Region: Afrika, Note: 1,3, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Veranstaltung: Entwicklungshemmnisse und Fluchtursachen in Nordafrika, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Phänomen des Islam als eine politische Ideologie. Es soll untersucht werden, was das Fundament islamischer Weltanschauungen für politisches Handeln bedeutet und worin sich der Zuspruch der Bevölkerung hierfür ergründet. Aufgrund aktueller Entwicklungen wird der Fokus in der vorangestellten theoretischen Betrachtung auf den Maghreb gelegt.Obwohl der Islam, im Laufe der Jahrhunderte auch immer schon eng verknüpft mit politischem Denken und Handeln, in dieser Region eine uralte Geschichte hat, so ist sein Bedeutungszuwachs der jüngsten Zeit auffällig. Seit den Aufständen und, in vielen Fällen folgenden, Regimestürzen 2011 befinden sich überall islamistische Akteure im Aufwind. Durch ihre Organisation in Parteien gewinnt der Islamismus zunehmenden Einfluss auf die politischen Systeme der Maghreb-Staaten. Die ersten freien Wahlen seit den Regimestürzen in Ägypten und Tunesien konnten islamistische Parteien für sich entscheiden. Auch die Regierung Marokkos wird seit den Protestwellen von 2011 von Islamisten geführt. In dieser Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie dieses plötzliche Erstarken des politischen Islam seit den Umbrüchen in den Maghreb-Staaten im Kontext des arabischen Frühlings zu erklären ist.Um das Erstarken des politischen Islam möglichst treffend zu operationalisieren, erscheint es sinnvoll, islamistische Parteien und dessen Ergebnisse bei allgemeinen Wahlen zu betrachten.Daher wird sich die folgende Analyse auf das Land Marokko beschränken, da in diesem Land das plötzliche Wiederaufleben des politischen Islam, ausgerechnet seit den Protesten und Veränderungen des Arabischen Frühlings 2011, am signifikantesten erscheint. Die einzige offen islamistische Partei und zuletzt Oppositionsführer im Land, die Partie Justice et Dévelopement (PJD) ¿ Partei für Gerechtigkeit und Entwicklung, wurde bei den vorgezogenen Parlamentswahlen 2011 überraschend stärkste Kraft und konnte ihr Ergebnis 2016 nochmals übertreffen. Generell sind in Marokko laut Verfassung jegliche islamistische Parteien verboten. Die PJD ist jedoch legal, da sie betont, keine ¿religiöse Partei¿ zu sein, sondern eine Partei mit ¿islamischem Bezug¿ bzw. ¿islamischem Referenzsystem¿.Somit lautet die Forschungsfrage nun konkreter: Wie ist der plötzliche und erneut bestätigte Wahlsieg der PJD in Marokko seit den Protesten von 2011 zu erklären?

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Allgemeines und Theorien, Note: 1,3, Universität Regensburg (Institut für Internationale Politik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um das Ringen des Akteurs Saudi-Arabien nach Einfluss in der arabischen Welt genauer zu untersuchen und es in den Kontext internationaler Beziehungen einzubetten, examiniert diese Arbeit das Selbstverständnis und die Interessen dieses Akteurs im Mittleren Osten. Dazu werden einerseits globale wie auch regionale Bedingungen dargelegt, die auf den Staat Saudi-Arabien wirken und dessen Entscheidungshandeln beeinflussen. Zum anderen sollen die außenpolitischen Handlungen und Strategien zwischen 2011 und Ende 2016 analysiert und in den gegebenen Kontext eingeordnet werden. Außerdem wird durch eine theoriegestützte Untersuchung den Fragen nachgegangen, weshalb Saudi-Arabien seiner Außenpolitik einen zunehmend aggressiveren Nachdruck verleiht, welche Rollen dabei der Iran und die USA spielen und wie sich die generelle Außenpolitik dieses Staates im Mittleren Osten konstituiert ¿ nicht ohne den verwendeten theoretischen Ansatz selbst einer angemessenen Prüfung zu unterziehen.

Exploring seventy incidents that serve as a reminder as to who the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم really was: a man of mercy and moral greatness who sought not the praise of this world, but its betterment through his example.

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich, What Have You Left Behind? powerfully draws together civilian accounts of the Yemeni civil war and serves as a vital reminder of the scale of the human tragedy behind the headlines.

This is a true story of two friends who took it upon themselves to investigate the downing of Iran Air flight 655 which was accidentally shot by USS Vincennes on July 3rd 1988.Mohammad Ali was born in Tehran and named after Ali, the son-in-law of the final Prophet.Bruce was born in Pocatello, Idaho and named after the fourteenth century king of Scotland.Mohammad is an Iranian American entrepreneur and a staunch republican .Bruce is an American aviation attorney ,a US naval officer and a devout democrat. Their friendship and belief in The American constitution and justice system united them in pursuing the truth and seeking justice for the heirs of the deceased passengers. In addition to giving the reader a unique view into the lives of ordinary Iranians inside Iran, We learn how similar we all are despite our heritage.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.