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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (2006) is a non-fiction book by Sandy Tolan. It deals with the Israel-Palestine conflict and follows two narratives which intersect, showing the complex history of the conflict in the lives of the individuals and society as a whole. The book was Booklist ’s Editor’s Choice for ...
1939–1945. Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II. Italian invasion of Egypt. Bombing of Bahrain in World War II. Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II. Anglo-Iraqi War. Syria–Lebanon campaign. Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. Iraq Iran French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon Mandatory Palestine.
The Canal War: Four-Power Conflict in the Middle East. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-23069-8. Insight team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday & Company (1974) Remez, Gideon and Ginor, Isabella: The Soviet-Israeli War 1967-1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict (2017) Korn, David ...
Alma mater. Jesus College, Oxford. Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.
The Arab–Israeli conflict is the phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between various Arab countries and Israel, which escalated during the 20th century. The roots of the Arab–Israeli conflict have been attributed to the support by Arab League member countries for the Palestinians, a fellow League ...
The Middle East was the first to experience a Neolithic Revolution (c. the 10th millennium BCE), as well as the first to enter the Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BC) and Iron Age (c. 1200–500 BC). Historically human populations have tended to settle around bodies of water, which is reflected in modern population density patterns.
Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology ][ note 1 ]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East ...