As the grip of the imperialist European powers loosened in the Middle East in the late 1940s and early 1950s, any hopes in the newly emancipated nations for sovereignty and independence were soon ...

The Survey also analyses the investment trends and policies in the 1950s and provides an economic outlook for 1960. Economic Developments in the Middle East 1958–59 This study reviews current ...

Bringing together essays by some of the most prominent political scientists focusing on the Middle East today, this volume documents the upheavals in the region occasioned by the U.S. response to the ...

On Sunday, Shlaim told Middle East Eye that he had uncovered "incontrovertible ... a former member of the Zionist underground in Baghdad in the 1950s. Karkoukli - who was aged 89 when he spoke ...

British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim has claimed in his new book to have uncovered "undeniable proof" of Israeli involvement in attacks on Jewish communities in Iraq in the early 1950s.