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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 ...
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.
Explorer, travel writer. Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993) was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the ...
The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf in the east, [1] and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to Yemen and Oman in the south ...
Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward Said, in which he establishes the term " Orientalism " as a critical concept to describe the Western world 's commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of the Eastern world —that is, the Orient. Societies and peoples of the Orient are those who inhabit regions throughout Asia and North Africa.
e. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi(Hindi:[ˈɪndɪɾɑːˈɡɑːndʱi]ⓘ; néeIndira Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and stateswoman who was Prime Minister of Indiafrom 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassinationin 1984. She was India's first and, to date, only female prime minister, and a central ...
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 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.