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Author : Daniel Bliss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss written by Daniel Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian VanDeMark
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616144777
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book American Sheikhs written by Brian VanDeMark and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Sheikhs is the story of a great institution—the American University of Beirut (AUB)—and the families who created and fostered it for almost 150 years. Author Brian VanDeMark’s vivid narrative includes not only the colorful history of AUB and many memorable episodes in a family saga, but also larger and more important themes. In the story of the efforts of these two families to build a great school with alternating audacity, arrogance, generosity, paternalism, and vision, the author clearly sees an allegory for the larger history of the United States in the Middle East. Before 1945, AUB’s history is largely positive. Despite American nationalism and presumptions of Manifest Destiny, Middle Easterners generally viewed the school as an engine of constructive change and the United States as a benign force in the region. But in the post-World War II era, with the rise of America as a world power, AUB found itself buffeted by the strong winds of nationalist frustration, Zionism and anti-Zionism, and—eventually—Islamic extremism. Middle Easterners became more ambivalent about America’s purposes and began to see the university not just as a cradle of learning but also as an agent of undesirable Western interests. This story is full of meaning today. By revealing how and why the Blisses and Dodges both succeeded and failed in their attempts to influence the Middle East, VanDeMark shows how America’s outreach to the Middle East can be improved and the vital importance of maintaining good relations between Americans and the Arab world in the new century.
Author : United States Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Record written by United States Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elie Kedourie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136275924
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies written by Elie Kedourie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. This book constitutes the continuation and complement of a work, The Chatham House Version and Other Middle-Eastern Studies, published in 1970. Both works are concerned with certain themes prominent in recent middle-eastern history, namely the influence of great-power, and particularly British policies in the region; the character of middle-eastern, and particularly Arab, politics and political thought during the last hundred years or so; and the fate of so-called minorities, and particularly the Jews of the Arab world, caught as they were in the cross-fire of antagonistic ideologies and of international conflicts.
Author : Nejla M. Abu Izzeddin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004097056
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Druzes written by Nejla M. Abu Izzeddin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was first published in 1984, it was the first extensive study of the Druzes to appear for many years. A small community native only in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, the Druzes have exercised an influence around them greater than their numerical strength. Living for the most part in mountainous territories they have maintained an independent existence for a thousand years. This book places the beliefs of the Druzes in the context of the history of Sh?'ism in its Ism?'?l? form, from which their faith developed. It also describes the role of the Druze community in the history of Lebanon and Syria. In the preparation of this book, the author, a Druze herself, has made use not only of the readily available Arabic and European sources but also of documents and manuscripts that are less easily accessible.
Author : Fruma Zachs
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406672
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Making of a Syrian Identity written by Fruma Zachs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes a close look at the origins and development of the Syrian identity, during the 18th and 19th centuries, through the role of Christian Arab intellectuals and merchants, Ottomans and American missionaries. It examines its background, stages of evolution, and components.
Author : Robert D. Stoddard, Jr.
Publisher : Hachette Antoine
ISBN 13 : 6144695389
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Sarah and her Sisters written by Robert D. Stoddard, Jr. and published by Hachette Antoine . This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When newly married Sarah Smith arrived in Beirut in 1834, she was appalled by the ignorance and ill treatment of Arab women and girls. Well educated for her times, she was not content just to keep house for her missionary husband. Rather, having taught Mohegan Indians in Connecticut, she, in her two remaining years, opened a small school for girls that began the transformation of education for Arab females. Sarah’s pioneering venture inspired a series of Protestant “sisters,” married and single, to follow in her wake as missionary teachers. Leaving loved ones and the comforts of home behind, they crossed two perilous seas, learned Arabic, and against great odds continued her work in elementary and then secondary and higher education. Sarah’s posthumous memoir was widely read. But the stories of her “sisters” were little known—until now. Here, they are linked in an extraordinary chain of educational achievements despite religious strife, civil war, epidemics, famine, isolation and finally a world war, pandemic and global depression. Regrettably, many “sisters,” like Sarah, paid the ultimate price and were buried abroad. As long as any girls anywhere are denied an education, these stories can inspire teachers of girls and advocates for female education worldwide to persevere. And hopefully coeds at Lebanese American University will be inspired and motivated to excel knowing that your university goes back to Mrs. Smith’s Beirut Female School and that you are the direct beneficiaries of Sarah and her sisters.
Author : Jens Hanssen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199281637
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Fin de Siècle Beirut written by Jens Hanssen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining urban theory with postcolonial methodology, Jens Hanssen argues that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space.
Author : Pratt Institute. Free Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Booklist written by Pratt Institute. Free Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pratt Institute. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Co-operative Bulletin written by Pratt Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026838661
Total Pages : 3941 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Diaries, Letters, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies (Unabridged) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 3941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Diaries, Letters, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered to be part of Dark romanticism. His themes often centre on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. Excerpt: "My dearest Sophie, I had a parting glimpse of you, Monday forenoon, at your window--and that image abides by me, looking pale, and not so quiet as is your wont. I have reproached myself many times since, because I did not show my face, and then we should both have smiled; and so our reminiscences would have been sunny instead of shadowy. But I believe I was so intent on seeing you, that I forgot all about the desirableness of being myself seen" Content: Letters: Browne's Folly (a letter for the Essex Institute) Love Letters (To Miss Sophia Peabody) - Volume I & II Letter to the Editor of the Literary Review Memoirs: American Notebooks (Volume I & II) English Notebooks (Volume I & II) French and Italian Notebooks (Volume I & II) Biographies and Reminiscences of Hawthorne: The Life and Genius of Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Hawthorne and His Moses by Herman Melville 'Fifty Years of Hawthorne': Four Americans by Henry A. Beers George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine: My Literary Passions by William Dean Howell Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold Yesterday With Authors by James T. Field Hawthorne and Brook Farm by George William Curtis Biographical sketch by George Parsons Lathrop.
Author : Ussama Makdisi
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458730131
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Faith Misplaced written by Ussama Makdisi and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting account of U.S.-Arab relations, award-winning author Ussama Makdisi explores why Arabs once had a favorable view of America and why they no longer do. Firmly rejecting the spurious notion of a civilizational clash between Islam and the West, Makdisi instead demonstrates how an initial zealous American missionary crusade was transformed across the nineteenth-century into a leading American educational presence in the Arab world, and how the advent of the idea of Wilsonian self-determination, amidst wide-scale Arab emigration to the United States, further bolstered a positive, foundational Arab idea of America. However, a series of subsequent political turning points-beginning with the British and French colonial partition of the Arab world in 1920 and culminating in the U.S.-backed creation of Israel in 1948 at the expense of the Palestinians-systematically alienated Arabs from America. Drawing on both American and Arab sources, Makdisi brings to the fore for the first time a wide range of hitherto marginalized Arab perspectives on their multifaceted cultural and political encounters with America. Unearthing this neglected history puts current politics and Arab attitudes toward the United States in a crucial historical perspective. By tracing how American missionaries laid the basis for an initial Arab discovery of America, and then how later U.S. policy decisions fueled anti-Americanism, Makdisi tells a powerful historical tale brimming with contemporary relevance.
Author : David C. Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317411226
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Lebanon written by David C. Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even up to the eve of the civil war, some observers saw the Lebanese system as essentially stable, and exhibiting some of the virtues of liberty and pluralism which had been commended by the French traveller de Volney a century before. But for others its structure was so seriously flawed as to be resolved only by revolution. The civil war resulted ultimately from a conglomeration of interdependent factors – the religious conflict of Christian and Shi’a Muslim, the social divisions exemplified in the ‘Belt of Misery’ around Beirut, and the ethnic frictions between the Arab host culture and the Occidentalised Maronites. This book, first published in 1980, is a lively and incisive study of one of the most ravaged countries of this generation.
Author : Vermont. Free Public Library Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Vermont Free Public Library Commission written by Vermont. Free Public Library Commission and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Tyrrell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455707
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Empire's Twin written by Ian Tyrrell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire's Twin broadens our conception of anti-imperialist actors, ideas, and actions; it charts this story across the range of American history, from the Revolution to our own era; and it opens up the transnational and global dimensions of American anti-imperialism.
Author : David D. Grafton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004307109
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible written by David D. Grafton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the history of an Arabic Bible translation of American missionaries in late Ottoman Syria. Comparing the history of this project as recorded by the American missionaries with private correspondence and the manuscripts of the translation, The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible provides new evidence for the Bible’s compilation, including the seminal role of Syrian Christians and Muslims. This research also places the project within the wider social-political framework of a transforming Ottoman Empire, where the rise of a literate class in Beirut served as a catalyst for the Arabic literary renaissance (Nahḍa), and within the international field of New Testament textual studies.
Author : Minneapolis Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Community Bookshelf written by Minneapolis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
