A collection of articles by contemporary scholars honoring Middle East scholar J.C. Hurewitz. Includes: the struggle for Palestine continued; Middle East politics: comparative ...

Home to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the ...

A simple question-and-answer format offers a brief introduction to Iraq, discussing land features, government, housing, transportation, industries, sports, holidays, food, and ...

Surveys two thousand years of Christian missions in the Middle East to shed light on the nature of the region's relationship with the West as well as on the missions' political ...

Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundred British and American ...

Off to the sidelines of the brutal western front of World War I was a nasty little campaign by British and India troops sent to secure Persian oil fields. Explaining what and ...

"In the first quarter of the twentieth century, the British Government, the banks, and leading individuals in London reached historic decisions that determined the name, shape ...