Middle East — Markus Wiener Publishers

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Massacre Averted: An Armenian Town, An American Nurse, and the Turkish Army They Resisted
	Super, Mary (edited by Nancy Klancher) Subject: Europe, Middle East	Between 1920 and 1923, American relief workers managed to prevent the massacre of three hundred Armenian orphans at the hands of Turkish and Kurdish troops. One of them, a nurse, kept a diary that illuminated in dramatic detail the struggle … More Information

Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants
	Levtzion, Nehemiah and Jay Spaulding, editors Subject: Africa	This book tells the story of West Africa south of the Sahara from the ninth to the fourteenth century from the viewpoint of Arab geographers, historians, and travelers. The first reports in written Arabic sources deal with urban west African … More Information

Memoirs of a Janissary
	Mihailović, Konstantin (edited by Svat Soucek; translated by Benjamin Stolz) Subject: Europe, Middle East	Konstantin Mihailović, born a Christian Serb in the early 15th century, was kidnapped by Ottoman Turks and brought to Anatolia, where he was trained as a Janissary — a member of the elite corps of the Ottoman army made up … More Information

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
	Ruete, Emily (edited by Patricia Romero) Subject: Middle East	Born a princess Sayyida on the African spice island of Zanzibar, Emily Ruete was brought up in a harem in the Sultan’s palace, naturalized as a German through marriage, and then manipulated by both Germans and British in their … More Information

Minorities in the Ottoman Empire
	Greene, Molly, editor Subject: Middle East	The Ottoman Empire was a multi-ethnic, multi-religious state encompassing most of the modern Middle East, and for much of its 600-year existence it managed to rule effectively its diverse peoples. The essays of this work move beyond the traditional state- … More Information

Modern Iran: A History in Documents
	Nabavi, Negin Subject: Middle Eastern History	Covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day, Modern Iran: A History in Documents brings together primary sources in translation that shed light on aspects of the political, social, cultural, and intellectual history of … More Information

Napoleon in Egypt: Al-Jabarti’s Chronicle of the French Occupation of 1798 (Expanded Edition)
	Al-Jabarti, Abd Al Raman Subject: Africa, Europe, Middle East	Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt in 1798 was the first contact between a Western power with imperial goals and an ancient regime of an African society. Sheik Al-Jabarti’s chronicle is a unique combination of historical narration and reflection combined with daily … More Information

Old New Land
	Herzl, Theodor (edited by Jacques Kornberg) Subject: Middle East, World History, World Literature, Jewish Studies	The first publication of Old New Land in 1902 forever altered the world’s perception of the Middle East. The book was a nineteenth-century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel. There were Jewish settlers in Palestine, and zionist ideas … More Information

Pilgrimage to Mecca: The Indian Experience, 1500–1800
	Pearson, Michael N. Subject: Asia, Middle East, Religion	For over a thousand years, tens and hundreds of thousands of Muslim Indians have been making the pilgrimage to Mecca, the annual Hajj. In the early modern period, they followed a route over the Indian Ocean, producing an entanglement of … More Information

Political Cartoons in the Middle East
	Göçek, Fatma Müge Subject: Middle East	The imagery of political cartoons provides a unique yet under-studied insight into how Middle Eastern societies think. By combining the indigenous comic tradition of shadow plays with the imported Western print form, and by drawing on both visual and verbal … More Information