Dubai Travel News

Travel & Tourism News of Dubai and rest of UAE

Month: June 2010

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Newsweek March 15 2010 Saving American Education, Murder in Dubai, HBO/Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg The Pacific, Art: The Holocaust as Inspiration

Newsweek March 15 2010 Saving American Education, Murder in Dubai, HBO/Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg The Pacific, Art: The Holocaust as Inspiration

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Israel and the Arabs

Book DescriptionFor the first time, Israeli and Arab authors collaborate in Israel and the Arabs (TV Books; November 2000), providing an unbiased account of one of the worlds’ most complex and controversial situations from both sides of the firing line….

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111 Questions on Islam: Samir Khalil Samir on Islam and the West

ISBN13: 9781586171551 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, the Afghan conflict, waves of migration and the presence of twelve million Muslims in the European Union: these are just…

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Getting to Pluralism: Political Actors in the Arab World

ISBN13: 9780870032448 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionPluralism in the Arab world has not yet matured into functional democratic politics. While ruling establishments, Islamist movements, and secular parties have introduced a much greater degree…

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American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism

Product Description In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, many of America’s Christian evangelicals have denounced Islam as a “demonic” and inherently violent religion, provoking frustration among other Christian conservatives who wish to present a more appealing message…

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The Arab Lobby and US Foreign Policy

Product Description The US foreign policy stance on Israel-Palestine has shifted considerably in recent years, from a position of “Israel only” to one which embraces both Israel and Palestine in a call for peace. This volume assesses why the US…

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Living in… Dubai

Product DescriptionA complete directory and travel guide based around on-the-ground realities, informing the new resident and the business traveller of all aspects of life in Dubai. From the once quiet fishing village known for its pearl trade to the stunning…

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Arab Nationalism: Between Islam and the Nation-State

Product Description The third edition includes a new Part Five on the tensions between Arab nationalism and Islam arising from the crisis of the nation-state and of the de-legitimisation of Pan-Arab regimes. The effects of the Arab defeat in the…

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Defeating Political Islam: The New Cold War

ISBN13: 9781591027041 Condition: USED – VERY GOOD Notes: Product DescriptionAl Qaeda and its sympathizers are often viewed as isolated fanatics outside of the mainstream Muslim population outlaws not only in the West but also in respectable Muslim nations. This book…

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Haifa: Transformation of an Arab Society 1918-1939

Product Description This book looks at the process by which the Arab community of Haifa was transformed during a crucial period in the history of modern Palestine by British mandatory rule, the advent of Zionism, and internal dynamics. It looks…

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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Library Edition

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Library Edition

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The Globalysis 2008 Travel & Leisure Sector Outlook For Dubai, UAE

Product DescriptionDubai, the second largest and most populous emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is growing in terms of population and economic activity at an incredible pace. A multitude of developments aimed at making Dubai ‘bigger and better’ than…

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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

ISBN13: 9781401308506 Condition: USED – VERY GOOD Notes: Product DescriptionNow in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift…

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Egypt, from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest: A Study in the Diffusion and Decay of Hellenism

Product DescriptionThis is primarily a study in the diffusion and decay of Hellenism in its Egyptian environment; the interaction of Hellenic and Egyptian characteristics, and the gradual weakening and decay of the Hellenic element. Egypt, from Alexander the Great to…

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Arab & Jew: Return to the Promised Land

ISBN13: 0841887011211 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe grinding struggle that has caused such suffering by Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs is pictured in searing human terms in ARAB & JEW: RETURN TO THE…