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In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood - and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody events echoed an older political rift: the splitting of nationalists and Islamists during the rule of Egyptian president and Arab nationalist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region.

A CIA analyst's "revealing and utterly engrossing account" of the world of high-stakes foreign intelligence and her role within the campaign to stop top-tier targets inside Al-Qaida (Joby Warrick). In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, D.C., to...

اختلف معه سياسيٍّا ما شئت، حاكمه على فترة حكمه كما تحب، ولكن لا تنس أن التاريخ لا يسجل أحداثه بشكل انتقائي متحيز، بل يسرد في صفحات أيامه يومًا بيوم وساعة بساعة وموقفًا بموقف، بطولات وهزائم، إخفاقات ونجاحات، خيرًا وشرٍّا... فالتاريخ يعلم أنه يوثق مسار بشرية لها ما لها وعليها ما عليها. ومن هنا كان قرارنا بنشر مذكرات اللواء طيار محمد حسني مبارك، التي يوثق من ، خلالها حقيقة ما تعرضت له القوات الجوية المصرية في نكسة يونية عام 1967. وكيف أعادت بناء نفسها لتكون رأس الحربة في نصر السادس من أكتوبر 1973

A portrait of the current Israeli prime minister, one of Israel's more noticeable leaders in recent decades. Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as prime minister of Israel, the longest serving prime minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office.

​“Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruelty and despair.” —Daniel Kahneman, New York Times bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow “In laying bare the raw human toll...

'An adrenalin-fuelled, gritty story of heroism on the frontline in Afghanistan.' - Andy McNab The rounds were single shot from the same two enemy positions, trying to pick me off. They were kicking up the dirt around me. Then all hell broke loose as the gunship's Gatling vomited ammo right over...