Cambridge Middle East Studies Series by Daniel Neep, Khaled Fahmy, Fawaz A. Gerges, Rashid Khalidi, Joshua Landis, Benny Morris, Laila Parsons, Edward W. Said, Charles Tripp, Alessandro Zago

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  • All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt (Cambridge Middle East Studies #8)
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    All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt (Cambridge Middle East Studies #8)

    Khaled Fahmy

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1997

    Offers a new interpretation of Mehmed Alis role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism

  • The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge Middle East Studies #15)
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    The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge Middle East Studies #15)

    Fawaz A. Gerges, Rashid Khalidi, Joshua Landis, Benny Morris, Laila Parsons, Edward W. Said, Charles Tripp, Alessandro Zago

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2001

    By all accounts, the 1948 Palestine war was one of the most significant milestones in the modern history of the Middle East and remains one of the most intractable conflicts of modern times. Israelis call the 1948 war "The War of Independence" while Arabs call it al-Nakba or the disaster. The conventional Israeli version portrays 1948 as an unequal struggle between a Jewish David and an Arab Goliath, as a desperate, heroic, and ultimately successful battle for survival against overwhelming odds... more

  • Occupying Syria under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space and State Formation (Cambridge Middle East Studies #38)
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    Occupying Syria under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space and State Formation (Cambridge Middle East Studies #38)

    Daniel Neep

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2012

    What role does military force play during a colonial occupation? The answer seems obvious: coercion crushes local resistance, quashes political dissent, and consolidates the dominance of the occupying power. However, as this discerning and theoretically rigorous study suggests, violence can have much more ambiguous consequences... more

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