Dictionary of the Middle East

by Dilip Hiro

Book Overview

The term 'Middle East' conjures up a multitude of images and concepts in the western mind. Sand dunes, camels, nomads. Gushing oil wells. Saddam Hussein. Terrorists, assassins, hostage-takers.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312174357
• ISBN13: 9780312174354
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Learning Tool

This book is great. It's not absolutely comprehensive. However, most things such as names and places that are easy to forget will be contained in this book for quick reference. Examples: Irgun, Stern Gang, Haganah , ...PLO, PFLP, DFLP, Hamas as well as other Palestinian liberation organizations, ...World Zionist Organization, Revisionism, Zionism, Labor Zionism as well as other ... ideologies and organizations. If you're like me and you like to always have the facts straight in your mind, which is impossible, this book will certainly serve as a great help in those moments of forgetfulness. Rather than having to go back through all the books you've read previously, what your looking for, the basic essentials, will most likely be contained in Dilip Hiro's Dictionary of the Middle East. Great reference book. It is not biased....

An excellent reference for Politics Students

Hiro has successfully managed to create this wonderful dictionary of the Middle East, which students can turn to for reference and important information when needed. It has excellent explanations of important figures, concepts, and countries...excellent, excellent, excellent!!!