War on Error - Israel, Islam and the Middle East

Informationen zum Autor Martin Kramer Klappentext In 'The War on Error', historian and political analyst Martin Kramer presents a series of case studies, some based on pathfinding research and others on provocative analysis, that correct misinformation clouding the public's understanding of the Middle East. Zusammenfassung In 'The War on Error', historian and political analyst Martin Kramer presents a series of case studies, some based on pathfinding research and others on provocative analysis, that correct misinformation clouding the public's understanding of the Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Middle East (Studies) Conflict 1 Dangerous Orientalists 2 The Shifting Sands of Academe 3 Surveying the Middle East 4 Policy and the Academy Part II. Missing Islam 5 Fundamentalists or Islamists? 6 "Islamic Fascism" 7 Islam for Viewers Like You 8 Afghani and America 9 He Might Have Been Pope 10 Hamas of the Intellectuals 11 Know Thy Enemy Part III. Misunderstood Arabs 12 1967 and Memory 13 Sadat and Begin: The Peacemakers 14 When Minorities Rule 15 Syria in the Fertile Crescent 16 Arab Spring, Arab Crisis 17 Listening to Arabs Part IV. Inventing Israel's History 18 What Happened at Lydda 19 Shabtai Teveth and the Whole Truth 20 Who Censored the Six-Day War? Part V. Elders of Zion 21 The Exodus Conspiracy 22 In the Words of Martin Luther King 23 Israel and the Iraq War 24 Fouad Ajami Goes to Israel 25 "Gaza Is Auschwitz" Epilogue Index

Product details

• Authors: Martin Kramer
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781412864336
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-6433-6
• No. of pages: 311
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, military history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Islamic Studies, Terrorism, armed struggle, Middle Eastern history, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Islamic