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Free Download Maya Kahanoff, "Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities: Transformations in Dialogue"
English | ISBN: 1498504973 | 2016 | 280 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering their Identities reveals the powerful potential of inter-group dialogues to transform identities and mutually negating relations. Using meetings with Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arabian students who attend the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as case studies, Kahanoff examines the hidden psychological dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and illustrates how each participant’s sense of identity shifted in response to encounters with conflicting perspectives. Kahanoff contends that an awareness of the limitations of dialogue, without the renunciation of its value, is the most realistic basis upon which to build a sustainable agreement. This book is recommended for scholars of psychology, sociology, religious studies, political science, and communication studies.

Free Download Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-2022 by Itamar Rabinovich
English | March 15th, 2023 | ISBN: 0815740115, 0815740107 | 376 pages | True EPUB | 0.73 MB
An insider’s analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process.

Free Download Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950: National Self and Non-National Other (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) by Ilkim Büke Okyar
English | April 17, 2023 | ISBN: 0815638043, 0815637977 | True PDF | 344 pages | 159 MB
The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion of the "Other" to the concept of national identity. The founding elite took up a massive project of social engineering that now required the amplification of Turkishness as an essential concept of the new nation-state. The construction of Others served as a backdrop to the articulation of Turkishness -and for Turkey in many ways, the Arab in his keffiyeh and traditional garb constituted the ultimate Other.

Free Download Asaf Darr, "Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace"
English | ISBN: 1501770683 | 2023 | 198 pages | PDF | 786 KB
Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed work teams in Israel. Asaf Darr documents the tensions that permeate the workplace and reveals when such tensions threaten the cohesion of the work environment. Darr chronicles the grassroots coping strategies employed by both Jewish and Palestinian through field studies conducted with workers in various sectors in Israel, adopting a comparative method that identifies the differences in how ethnonational-religious tensions play out.

Free Download Jonathan Lyons, "The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization"
English | 2009 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1596914599, 1408801213, ASIN: B003EN3K5M | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Here is the remarkable story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy, and of the itinerant Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West. For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile, Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a glimpse of the scientific advances coming from Baghdad, Antioch, or the cities of Persia, Central Asia, and Muslim Spain. There, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge and revitalizing the works of Plato and Aristotle.

Free Download Delacy O’LEARY, "How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs"
English | ISBN: 1138972053 | 2016 | 256 pages | EPUB | 437 KB
First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world, later passing on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O’Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites; Indian influences by land and sea and the rise of Buddhism, O’Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect for all those interested in the history of medicine and science, and of historical geography as well as the history of the Arab world.

Free Download Ayad Al-Ani, "The Arabs from Alexander the Great until the Islamic Conquests: Orientalist Perceptions and Contemporary Conflicts"
English | ISBN: 1463242859 | 2021 | 284 pages | PDF | 27 MB
This is not a conventional history book. It is rather a study of the sociology of historical writing about a period that, although quite distant in time (330 B.C. to A.D. 670), still influences political discourse about the Arab world, and especially the relationship between the West and the Middle East. This book focuses on the riddle of the disappearance of the Arabs from history before Islam, their sudden appearance behind the banners of the Prophet, and the powerful and traumatic effect this emergence into world history has had on the relationship between the Arabs and the West.

Free Download Jews and Arabs in Pre- And Early Islamic Arabia By Michael Lecker
1998 | 362 Pages | ISBN: 0860787842 | PDF | 10 MB
Most of the articles in this volume belong to what can be described as the preparatory work which is prerequisite to the study of pre- and early Islamic history. Lecker’s interests include tribal Arabia (including tribes in the Yemen and Hadramawt), the history of the Arabian Jews, the biography of the Prophet Muhammad, and early Islamic literature in general. While the studies are based on a wide range of sources, they often focus on illuminating small accounts which are analyzed and placed in their historical context. The comprehensive index renders the articles easily accessible.