Through Middle Eastern Eyes
Edition: 4 edition
Publisher: Center for Intl Training & Educ
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780938960485
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Middle East; Sociology
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Tradition and change -- The importance of children -- Learning to be a man -- Traditional girlhood -- The bard -- Going to a Koranic school -- "My mind was open for information and wisdom" -- Behavior and morality -- Watching one's reputation -- The public bath -- Courtship -- Removing the veil -- The dream -- The life of Mohammed -- Letters on Islam -- The five pillars of Islam -- The pilgrimage to Mecca -- "If God wills it" --- The grocer and the chief -- A Lebanese family -- The Islamic backlash -- pt. 2. Past glories, future hopes -- Colonialism and the making of a revolution -- The Arab golden age: Harun Al-Rashid's Baghdad -- The Ottoman empire -- Ataturk's reforms -- The philosophy of the revolution -- After the revolution: Algerian self-government -- Oil in the Middle East -- Islamic feminism -- The Arab-Israeli conflict -- The life of Joseph Baratz, part 1-3 -- Israel: the forging of a nation -- The Intifada: an uprising for a nation -- The Persian Gulf War -- After the war: the Palestinians and the Kurds -- After the war: a chance for peace -- What now? After the Camp David II talks fail -- Zionism comes full circle -- Declaring war on America -- Terrorists on tape -- Reactions to 9/11 -- Fundamentalist Islam -- Whither Islam- and America?