Hezbollah

the changing face of terrorism

Phoenicia

history of a civilization

Genocide in the Age of the Nation State

.T.1: The meaning of genocide

Genocide in the Age of the Nation State

.T.2: The rise of the west and the coming of genocide

Arab-byzantine coinage

Photographing the Holocaust

interpretations of the evidence

Cradle of Islam

the Hijaz and the quest for an arabian identity

Wahhabi Islam

from revival and reform to global Jihad

'Umar

The monument

art and vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq

Modern Afghanistan

a history of struggle and survival

Afghanistan's history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime and then the US invasion after the catastrophe of September 11th. Why does Afghanistan remain so vulnerable to domestic instability, foreign intervention and ideological extremism ...

Caesarea Philippi

Banias, the lost city of pan

Super-State

the New Europe and its challenge to America

Macedonia

warlords and rebels in the Balkans

A bloody rebellion by Albanian guerrillas demanding equal rights in Macedonia has killed and wounded thousands of people and led to fears that the crisis will embroil Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria and Greece. International intervention brought an uneasy halt to the blood-letting last summer, but hardline ...

Tourism in the New Shouth Africa

social responsibility and the tourist experience

A new model of tourism development has recently emerged out of a widening concern for the environment. Known variously as 'ecotourism', 'new tourism', 'socially responsible tourism', huge claims are made for it in terms of what it might offer in promoting national tourism development. Yet ...

The Ottoman empire and the world around it

Iraq

reconstruction and future role

Interaction and isolation in late byzantine culture

Papers Read at a Colloquium Held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 1-5 December, 1999

Risk and uncertainty in the changing global energy market

implications for the gulf

A nation of shopkeepers

five centuries of British retailing

The swan king

Ludwig II of Bavaria

This is a biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 19th century, described by Verlaine as "the only true king of his century". A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered ...

Alternatives to Hitler

german resistance under the Third Reich