The War on Error - Israel, Islam and the Middle East

List of contents

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

About the author

Martin Kramer

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Kramer
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781412864992
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-6499-2
• No. of pages: 342
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: 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