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Memoirs of Mr. Hempher, The British Spy to the Middle East or Confessions of a British Spy is a document purporting to be the account by an 18th-century British agent, Hempher, of his instrumental role in founding the conservative Islamic reform movement of Wahhabism, as part of a conspiracy to corrupt Islam.
View inside the Passetto, the secret passage between Vatican City and Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, Italy. Secret passages, also commonly referred to as hidden passages or secret tunnels, are hidden routes used for stealthy travel, escape, or movement of people and goods. They are sometimes inside buildings leading to secret rooms.
The author also discusses the influence of domestic politics and the Israel lobby in the United States shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East. In particular, argues that American support for Israel is a product of American strategic and corporate interests, rather than solely the influence of the Israel lobby.
Jason Vest wrote that the report was "a kind of US-Israeli neoconservative manifesto" and that it proposed "a mini-cold war in the Middle East, advocating the use of proxy armies for regime changes, destabilization and containment. Indeed, it even goes so far as to articulate a way to advance right-wing Zionism by melding it with missile ...
In this context, Arendt uses the metaphor of the onion to represent the structure of totalitarian systems. [2] [5] [6] This metaphor illustrates an organized structure centered around a central point, the leader of the totalitarian system. [2] She contrasts this structure with other types, such as the pyramid-like structures of autocracy or ...
The title refers to Vladimir Nabokov's novel, Lolita, a story about a middle aged man who has a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old pubescent girl. The book Lolita is used by the author as a metaphor for life in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although the book states that the metaphor is not allegorical (p.
Report of the Cairo Conference The delegates with lion cubs at left, [1] and Lawrence of Arabia in the second row, fourth from right in a dark suit. The 1921 Cairo Conference, described in the official minutes as Middle East Conference held in Cairo and Jerusalem, March 12 to 30, 1921, was a series of meetings by British officials for examining and discussing Middle Eastern problems, and to ...
The rationales of individual women for keeping purdah are complex and can be a combination of motivations, freely chosen or in response to social pressure or coercion: religious, cultural (desire for authentic cultural dress), political (Islamization of the society), economic (status symbol, protection from the public gaze), psychological ...