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Fear and faith in paradise : exploring conflict and religion in the Middle East /
From life along the Tigris River in the 1970s to the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings, Phil Karber has witnessed decades of change throughout the Middle East. Fear and Faith in Paradise draws on his wealth of experience to sketch a timely and compelling portrait of the region throughout history. Going...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
c2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: A moment of opportunity
- Introduction: Terror in the name of God
- Part I: Wars of choice. Be nice to Americans ; Refugees from Iraq and Lebanon flee to Syria
- Holy fools and the Red Crescent ; Made in America ; Warlords and a Lebanese prophet ; Poppy fields, McDonald's, Armageddon, and the Loire Valley ; Hezbollah and U.S. cluster bombs ; Istanbul : ground zero in the clash of civilizations ; Bombs away on the PKK ; The Peshmerga and Mercy Corps ; Refugees, water, schools, clinics, and wheelchairs ; It's the oil, Habibi, the oil ; The sunshine peddler's parlor game ; Saying boo! to the bogeyman
- Part II: A theocracy. A wall of mistrust ; Coca-Cola and KFC in Tehran ; Desert gardens, Imam Hussein, and the eternal flame ; King of kings in wine country ; Fear and faith in paradise
- Part III: Shadow and light : an Arab Spring. Morocco and the February 20 Movement ; The Jasmine Revolution
- Epilogue.