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Description for Gaza Strip
Hardcover. Relates the Gaza Strip's history in a text, which includes time-lines for various major events and personalities (from the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III to Hamas' leader Ismai'l Haniye). This book brings perspective to the Israeli invasion of the Strip and its political and social aftermath. Num Pages: 206 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FBX; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
Few areas on earth have more history, ancient and present, per inch of its territory than the Gaza Strip. In antiquity Gaza was a horn of plenty, the hub of fabulous networks of desert and maritime trade. Egyptian, Persian and Assyrian emperors fought over it, and so did Alexander the Great, Richard the Lionheart, Saladdin and Napoleon. More recently Gaza's fame has been of quite a different kind -- a place of crisis, anguish and misery. Since 170,000 Palestinian refugees arrived there in 1948, and the Strip became one more piece in the intractable Middle Eastern puzzle, it has gone ... Read more
Few areas on earth have more history, ancient and present, per inch of its territory than the Gaza Strip. In antiquity Gaza was a horn of plenty, the hub of fabulous networks of desert and maritime trade. Egyptian, Persian and Assyrian emperors fought over it, and so did Alexander the Great, Richard the Lionheart, Saladdin and Napoleon. More recently Gaza's fame has been of quite a different kind -- a place of crisis, anguish and misery. Since 170,000 Palestinian refugees arrived there in 1948, and the Strip became one more piece in the intractable Middle Eastern puzzle, it has gone ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193447
SKU
V9781845193447
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Nathan Shachar
Nathan Shachar is the Jerusalem correspondent of the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.
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