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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.
A hidden compartment or secret compartment is a compartment whose existence or access is not obvious at first glance, and can be used as a hiding place for objects or sometimes even for people. A hidden compartment where people can stay is usually referred to as a hidden room or secret room , and can range from parts of small wardrobes or ...
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 ...
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.
As thirty-six is the square of six, it therefore acted as a metaphor for "numerous strategies". [4] Since Wang did not refer to any thirty-six specific stratagems, the thirty-six proverbs and their connection to military strategies and tactics are likely to have been created after the fact, with only the collection's name being attributed to Wang.
Antony Blinken, the low-key secretary of state and one of Biden's closest advisers, has engaged in "marathon diplomacy" to limit the scope of the war in the Middle East. Meet the man tasked with ...
Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood is a 2003 book by Noam Chomsky. [1] It includes a collection of essays about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict written between 1969 and 2002.
The following is a list of common metonyms. [n 1] A metonym is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.