李察．安格爾Richard Engel 國家廣播公司（NBC）的首席海外特派員，曾榮獲George Foster Peabody Award、Edward R. Murrow Award、新聞與紀錄片艾美獎（Emmy Award）等多項獎項肯定。史丹佛大學畢業後前往中東學習阿拉伯語，展開記者生涯。安格爾報導中東事務長達二十年，是相關報導領域的第一把交椅，據安格爾的自述，不管他去哪裡，哪裡就發生戰爭，活脫脫是個新聞界的「柯南」。 譯者簡介 鄭煥昇 教育界的逃兵，翻譯的志願役，喜歡看書、堆書的譯者。譯有《TED Talk 十八分鐘的祕密》、《跟任何人都可以聊得來》、《創造力》、《勇氣的力量》等書。

An important new political and economic history of the unravelling of the British Empire and its connection to the decline of sterling as a leading international currency. Analyzing events such as the 1951 Iranian oil nationalization crisis and the 1956 Suez crisis, Steven Galpern provides a new perspective on British imperialism in the Middle East by reframing British policy i...(展开全部)

The Mongols’ Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran offers a collection of academic articles that investigate different aspects of Mongol rule in 13th- and 14th-century Iran. Sometimes treated only as part of the larger Mongol Empire, the volume focuses on the Ilkhanate (1258-1335) with particular reference to its relations with its immediate neighbours. It...(展开全部)

Homosexuality is a taboo subject in Arab countries. Clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, while newspapers write cryptically of "shameful acts." Although many parts of the world now accept sexual diversity, the Middle East is moving in the opposite direction. In this absorbing account, journalist Brian Whitaker calls attention to the voices of men and women who are struggling w...(展开全部)

To better understand the lasting legacy of international relations in the post-Ottoman Middle East, we must first re-examine Turkey's engagement with the region during the interwar period. Long assumed to be a period of deliberate disengagement and ruptured ties between Turkey and its neighbours, Amit Bein instead argues that in the volatile 1930s, Turkey was in fact perceived ...(展开全部)

Eastward to Tartary , Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts , introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-r...(展开全部)

Histories of Iran, as of the wider Middle East, have been dominated by the twin narratives of top-down modernization and methodological nationalism. In this book, Stephanie Cronin problematizes both of these narratives. Its attention is firmly fixed on subaltern social groups: the 'dangerous classes' and their constructed contrast with the new and avowedly modern bourgeois elit...(展开全部)