Middle Eastern Studies


Orientalism
A History of the Arab Peoples
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
On Palestine
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies' Table Our Journey Through the Middle East
Abhijit Naskar
Qatar & The West (The Sonnet) All of a sudden the entire west is peeved at Qatar, Because only the west has exclusive rights to exposure. All of a sudden we care about the migrant workers, The Afghans, Palestinians and Kashmiris no longer matter. Human rights issue here is, we don't care about human rights, We only care about filling the air with hypocrisy and mania. Our poster boy just dumped half his new workforce as garbage, We buy Oscar, ditch Batgirl, and we diss Qatar for buying FIFA! We ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

Louis Yako
Syria has long been on the ‘axis of evil’ list and a pretext to intervene militarily in that country, without causing public outrage like that caused in Iraq and Afghanistan, had to be manufactured. If a reason for military action in Syria didn’t exist, it had to be invented.
Louis Yako

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