The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, Volume 113, Number 4, October 1983
Tavistock, England: T. D. Bridge, 1983. 22 cm, 127, wraps, illus., bibliography, some wear and minor creasing to covers. More
Lebanon
Current History: A World Affairs Journal, Volume 87, Number 526, February 1988
Philadelphia, PA: Current History, Inc., 1988. quarto, 97, wraps, map, footnotes, rear cover quite creased & small tears, creases and tears p. 95 This issue focuses on the Middle East. Topics covered include U.S. policy in the Middle East, Soviet policy in the Middle East, the Islamic resurgence, the Iran-Iraq War and the Persian Gulf Crisis, Israel at forty, the politics of transition in Turkey, the Palestinians, and Syria and Lebanon. More
Hezbollah's Global Reach: Joint Hearing before the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Wraps. v, 78 p. More
Lebanon The Land of Holiness and Heritage; Publications of Kannoubine league for mission and heritage In cooperation with Issam Fares establishment
Kannoubine League, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [3], 121 pages. Illustrations mostly in color. Inscribed on title page by the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East! Item is in English and Arabic. Pagination starts at the 'back' page. Title page (3) is in Arabic. The signature is believed to be that of Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (Al-K rd n l M r Nasrallah Butrus ufayr; Latin: Victor Petrus Sfeir; born 15 May 1920 in Rayfoun, Lebanon) is the patriarch emeritus of Lebanon's largest Christian body, the Maronite Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See. He is also a Cardinal. He was elected Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites on 27 April 1986, and his resignation was accepted on 26 February 2011. He is the third Maronite Cardinal and he was the 76th Patriarch of the Maronite Church with the official title of "His Beatitude and Eminence the seventy-sixth Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant" More
Tikkun: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society, Volume 7, Number 1, January/February 1992
Oakland, CA: Inst/Labor & Mental Health, 1992. quarto, 96, wraps, illus., bottom has gotten wet and is stained, pages separate and clear, covers soiled and some wear, stamp on cover CJSJ ephemera laid in. More
The Financing of Terror: Behind the PLO, IRA, Red Brigades, and M-19 Stand the Paymasters
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1986. First Printing. 24 cm, 293, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, some scuffing to boards. More
Until Summer Comes
Springfield, MA: The Pond-Ekberg Company, 1945. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. ix, 361, [1] p. 23 cm. Map on lining paper. More
Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1955. 448, illus., maps, sources, biblio., index, slight discoloration inside bds, DJ worn: small tears, small pieces missing at spine. More
Peace and Stability in the Middle East: A Report
Washington, DC: GPO, 1975. 24 cm, 19, wraps. More
Error and Betrayal in Lebanon: An Analysis of Israel's Invasion of Lebanon and the Implications for U.S.-Israeli Relations
Washington, DC: Foundation/Middle East Peace, 1984. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 158, wraps, illus., bibliography, index, some discoloration at bottom of spine, pencil erasure fr endpaper, pp. 157/8 creased. More
The Passionate Attachment; America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 382, [2] pages. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, and tears. Some edge soiling. George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 – May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. During 1944 and 1945, he was director of the Strategic Bombing Survey in London. He served in the management of the State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which were based on calculations that South Vietnam was doomed. He also helped determine American policy regarding trade expansion, Congo, the Multilateral Force, de Gaulle's France, Israel and the Middle East, and the Iranian revolution. Ball also served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from June 26 to September 25, 1968. During August 1968 at the UN Security Council, he endorsed the Czechoslovaks' struggle against the Soviet invasion and their right to live without dictatorship. More
Army Officers in Arab Politics and Society
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1970. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xii, 514, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Tables. Appendices (The social origin of Egyptian Officers before 1952, and the Arab Officer Ranks). Select Bibliography. Index of Names. Preface by Walter Laqueur. Ink name inside front board, some soiling inside front flyleaf. Marginal and ink underlining throughout, DJ soiled & small tears.. A revised and updated of He-Ketzuna we-ha-shilton ba'olam ha'aravi) published by Sifriat Poalim, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1966. The author was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1914 and was educated at the University of Berlin. He moved to Israel in 1937 had has been a member of Kibbutz Hazorea. He served as the Director of the Department for Arab Workers of the Israel Ministry of Labor and as Director of the Department of Arab Affairs of the Mapam political party. He was a frequent contributor on Arab affairs to specialized periodicals. More
Force Without War: U.S. Armed Forces as a Political Instrument
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, c1978. First Printing. Trade paperback. 24 cm, 584 pages, illustrations, some wear to spine and to edges of front cover. More
Herblock Through the Looking Glass
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1984. First Edition. First Printing. 287, profusely illus., tear at front DJ flap, small tear at DJ spine. More
Herblock Through the Looking Glass
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1984. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 287, [1] pages, profusely illus., some wear to DJ edges. Some edge soiling. Inscribed by the author. Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 – October 7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other honors. He began taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago when he was eleven, and adopted the "Herblock" signature in high school. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1942, then spent two years in the Army doing cartoons and press releases. Upon discharge Block became chief editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post, where he worked until his death 55 years later. Block's cartoons were syndicated to newspapers around the world by Creators Syndicate from 1987 until his death in 2001. More
Foreign Affairs: Volume 61, Number 5, Summer 1983
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1983. Presumed first edition /first printing. Wraps. A-18, 1001-1223, A-37 to A-46. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Index. More
Peace-Keeping by U.N. Forces, From Suez to the Congo. Princeton Studies in World Politics, Number 4
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1963. 256, notes, appendices, name stamps and foxing to fore-edge, DJ soiled, small tears at DJ spine. More
Means of Escape
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 405, some wear to top and bottom edges of DJ. More
The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Printing. 257, maps, chronology, appendices, index, top corner p. 99 & side margin pp. 141-144 creased, slight foxing to fore-edge. More
Chains to Roses: The Joseph Cicippio Story
Waco, TX: WRS Pub, 1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 202, illus. Foreword by Dan Rather. More
The War Powers Resolution: Balance of War Powers in the Eighties
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 1985. First Printing. 23 cm, 78, wraps, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, some soiling to covers. More
The War Powers Resolution: Balance of War Powers in the Eighties. A National War College Strategic Study
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1985. 78, wraps, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, p. 57 creased, some soiling to covers. More
The Superpowers and the Syrian-Israeli Conflict: Beyond Crisis Management?
New York: Praeger, 1991. First Printing. 24 cm, 182, illus., some scratches and soiling to DJ, red mark on bottom edge, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper. More
Payback: America's Long War in the Middle East
Washington, DC: Brassey's (US), Inc., 1991. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 257, [1] pages. Endpaper maps. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. DJ rear flap creased. DJ spine sunned. Foreword by Pierre Salinger. John Kent Cooley (November 25, 1927 – August 6, 2008) was an American journalist and author who specialized in islamist groups and the Middle East. He worked as a radio and off-air television correspondent for ABC News. Cooley was one of only a handful of Western journalists widely regarded and trusted in the Middle East as an expert on the area's history and politics. He interviewed several of the region's heads of state and was personally acquainted with the senior leadership of the PLO. His many awards include the coveted George Polk Award for distinguished career achievement in international reporting. He was a key part of the ABC News Prime Time Live team that won an Emmy in 1990 for its investigation into the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. More
A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the Arab-Israeli Dispute
Washington, DC: American Educational Trust, c1982. Second Edition. 24 cm, 216, illus. More