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  • The PKK

    Coming Down from the Mountains

    by Doctor Paul White ...
    Series series Rebels
    The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is infamous for its violence. The struggle it has waged for Kurdish independence in southeastern Turkey has cost in excess of 40,000 lives since 1984. A less-known fact, however, is that the PKK now embraces a non-violent end to the conflict, with its leader Abdullah Öcalan having ordered a ceasefire and engaging in a negotiated peace with the Ankara government. ... Read more

    R331,42

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  • In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan

    America's War in Afghanistan

    by Seth G. Jones ...
    “How we got to where we are in Afghanistan.”—Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street JournalThis definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan “[zeroes] in on what went awry after America’s successful routing of the Taliban in late 2001” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) to explain how a growing sanctuary for insurgents in Pakistan and a collapsing government in Kabul catalyzed the Taliban ... Read more

    R237,69

  • A Road Unforeseen

    Women Fight the Islamic State

    by Meredith Tax ...
    A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic StateIn war-torn northern Syria, a democratic society—based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality—has won significant victories against the Islamic State, or Daesh, with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and leaders.A Road Unforeseen recounts the dramatic, underreported history of the Rojava Kurds, whose all ... Read more

    R295,08

  • The Arab Uprisings:What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by James L. Gelvin ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime change. What caused these uprisings? What is their significance? And what are their likely consequences? In an engaging question-and-answer format, ... Read more

    R172,37

  • The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History

    From Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History

    by Thomas J. Barfield ...
    Series Book 9 - Princeton Shorts
    When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and ineffectiveness. What happened? As Thomas Barfield shows, the history of previous efforts to build governments in Afghanistan does much to explain ... Read more

    R21,03

  • Come from the Shadows

    The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan

    by Terry Glavin ...
    Come from the Shadows is not about the Afghanistan we may think we know. It is not about the country depicted in urgent dispatches from embedded reporters; it isn't about the country evoked by anti-war protestors or the one that figures in heated political controversies over the treatment of prisoners. Instead, this is a book about the Afghanistan that lies "outside the wire," far from the Taliban ... Read more

    R295,77 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Struggle for Egypt

    From Nasser to Tahrir Square

    by Steven A. Cook ...
    The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a lynchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world and has turned its gaze to Egypt, however. A half century ago, Egypt under Nasser became the ... Read more

    R235,16

  • Taliban

    The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond

    by Ahmed Rashid ...
    This New York Times best seller remains the most informative and objective account of the Taliban availableThis modern classic brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Central Asia into sharp focus. Ahmed Rashid offers an authoritative account of the Taliban’s rise to power, the effects of changing American attitudes toward it, and the new faces ... Read more

    R242,18

  • Al-Shabaab in Somalia

    The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group

    by Stig Jarle Hansen ...
    Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ centre' in Afghanistan. Itself an offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, which split in 2006, Shabaab has imposed Sharia law and is also heavily ... Read more

    R546,01

  • The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath

    Edited by Peter Cole, Brian McQuinn ...
    This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e.g. Misrata, Zintan), tribal/communal (e.g. Beni Walid) or political (e.g. the Muslim Brotherhood) took its own path into the uprisings and subsequent conflict of 2011, ... Read more

    R560,73

  • The People Want

    A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising

    by Gilbert Achcar ...
    Translated by G.M. Goshgarian ...
    ‘The people want’ – thus began the slogans chanted by millions of protesters in 2011 in what was dubbed the ‘Arab Spring’.  While the protests revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy, they also laid bare a deep structural crisis.In this landmark work, Middle East analyst Gilbert Achcar examines the socio-economic roots and political dynamics of the regional upheaval. He assesses the ... Read more

    R233,67

  • Perilous Interventions

    The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos

    by Hardeep Singh Puri ...
    Recent military interventions gone wrongIt was an exclusive lunch at a high-end Manhattan restaurant on 7 March 2011. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his A-team were present. It soon became clear that the main item on the menu was Libya, where it was alleged that the forces of Muammar Gaddafi were advancing on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to crush all opposition. Over an $80 per head ... Read more

    R313,48