Tag: Syria

Free Download Ancient Syria: A Captivating Guide from the Eblaites and Akkadians through the Arameans and Assyrians to the Seleucids, Romans, and Byzantines (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882215605 | 2024 | 4 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Captivating History
Narrator: Jay Herbert
Discover the Wonders and Mysteries of Ancient Syria. A pivotal crossroads of trade and culture, ancient Syria was an exhilarating and revolutionary place. Syria has always been a volatile land rocked by forces competing for power. Yet, it gave birth to the world’s first library and the first purely alphabetic writing system. An exciting epicenter of early Christianity flourished in Antioch and Damascus. Explore ancient Syria’s riveting history and breathtaking culture in this well-researched audiobook. Unwrap the fascinating stories of people who left an indelible mark on ancient Syria.

Free Download Christopher Phillips, "The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East"
English | ISBN: 030021717X | 2016 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 1456 KB
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil war

Free Download Mazin Tadros, "The Jesuits in Syria: 1625-1683: Fishers of Men"
English | ISBN: 3031636074 | 2024 | 290 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines cross-cultural encounters of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in early modern Southwest Asia. It analyzes the early mission to Syria, paying attention to the key interlocutors of the Jesuits and the many challenges they experienced in their exchanges with other Europeans, Ottoman officials, and Eastern Christians. It demonstrates that there was nominal Muslim-Christian dialogue and important relationships formed between the Jesuits and their Christian and Muslim hosts. The Jesuits in Syria shows that the Jesuits worked in a very complex environment, where competing factions of Europeans, European religious, Eastern Christians, Arab Muslims, Turkish officials, and Turkish Muslims, not to mention "renegades," played important roles.

Free Download Syria and Saudi Arabia: Collaboration and Conflicts in the Oil Era By Sonoko Sunayama
2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1845113020 | PDF | 5 MB
The nature of the relationship between Syria and Saudi Arabia during the oil era poses many questions for the commentators and analysts of inter-Arab politics during this period. Why have these two states pursued mutually conflicting aims in almost every major regional or international foreign policy issue? Why, over the course of the past thirty years, have they often propagated contrasting ideological banners while both acting as though some form of an alignment existed between them? Here Sonoko Sunayama explores the apparent paradox behind this longstanding relationship and argues that what ultimately makes Saudis and Syrians so indispensable to each other is the perception and the historical appeal of ‘shared identities’, be they Arabism or Islam.

Free Download Syria’s Quest for Independence: 1939-1945 By Salma Mardam Bey
1997 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0863721753 | PDF | 11 MB
An account of the Syrian nationalists’ struggle for independence and democracy during World War II, written from the perspective of the author’s father, Jamil Mardam Bey – a prominent leader of that time.

Free Download Brad Hoff, "Syria Crucified: Stories of Modern Martyrdom in an Ancient Christian Land"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 195589003X | PDF | pages: 258 | 61.7 mb
The tragic war in Syria along with the plight of the Christians there remains among the most misunderstood situations in the world today. Syria Crucified seeks to contribute to better understanding in the West by giving a voice to individual Syrian Christians living in exile from their homeland. These men and women have undergone horrific trauma and loss without losing their faith in God or the ability to forgive their persecutors. Their first-person accounts, framed by the authors’ narration for historical, cultural, and geopolitical context, are both edifying and inspiring.

Free Download Syria and the New World Order By Neil Quilliam
1999 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0863722490 | PDF | 8 MB
The advent of the New World Order has challenged Syria’s role in the Middle East. Traditionally viewed as a pariah state and a Soviet satellite, Syria’s future looked uncertain as the balance of world power moved out of Soviet into US control, causing the withdrawal of Soviet support and threatening Syria’s quest for regional hegemony. Syria, however, has been able to adapt to the transformation in the world order. Dr Quilliam maintains that Syrian foreign policy has been determined by both domestic politics and international political realities. He begins by defining Syria in terms of its domestic arena: its geography (both physical and political), natural resources, history, population and economy. He then discusses the governing system of the country, detailing the different political parties and how the system actually functions in Syria. Moving to the international political system, the author then expands upon the regional balance of power and Syria’s relations with her neighbors. Following a rational policy, the Syrian state was compelled to realign itself with the US-led world order in an attempt to pursue regional hegemony. It was able to do this by joining the US-led coalition forces in the liberation of Kuwait in 1990/91 and was rewarded with a place in the postwar regional order and a central role in the Madrid Peace Conference. Syria and the New World Order is a clear and comprehensive account of Syria’s adjustment to the realities of the day.

Free Download Itab Azzam, "Syria Recipes From Home"
English | ISBN: 1474604501 | 2017 | 224 pages | EPUB | 32 MB
Author(s): Itab Azzam & Dina Mousawi ISBN: 9781474604505 Binding: Hardcover Published: 2017-07-11 ‘Syrian cuisine deserves a high place in our culinary knowledge and Itab and Dina, with their brilliant recipes and fascinating stories, are the perfect authors to do this’ Ruth RogersSyria has always been the marketplace for the most delicious ingredients from East and West, a meeting-point for travellers and traders, where spices and sweetness collide. Nothing unites and inspires Syrians as much as food. Even now, in possibly the country’s darkest hour, Syrian families in tiny flats from Beirut to Berlin are searching out the best tomatoes, lemons, pomegranates and parsley to recreate the taste of home.Friends and passionate cooks Itab and Dina met Syrian women in the Middle East and Europe to collect together the very best recipes from one of the world’s greatest food cultures. They spent months cooking with them, learning their recipes and listening to stories of home. From hot yoghurt soup with turmeric to cherry meatballs, this is a delicious celebration of the unique taste, culture and food of Syria – and a celebration of everything that food and memory can mean to an individual, to a family and to a nation.

Free Download Sebastian Maisel, "Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority"
English | ISBN: 0739177745 | 2016 | 204 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority traces the development of Yezidi identity on the margins of Syria’s minority context. This little known group is connected to the community’s main living area in northern Iraq, but evolved as a separate identity group in the context of Syria’s colonial, national, and revolutionary history. Always on the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy, the two sub-groups located in the Kurdagh and the Jezira experience a period of sociological and theological renewal in their quest for a recognized and protected status in the new Syria. In this book, Sebastian Maisel transmits and analyzes the Yezidi perspective on Syria’s policies towards ethnic and religious minorities.

Free Download Shirish Thorat, "A Ticket to Syria"
English | ISBN: 9389624525 | 2020 | 168 pages | EPUB | 318 KB
Beneath the clear blue skies of Maldives, a beast slouches towards Syria to be born…Zahi has led a perfectly normal life until one day she heads out for a family vacation but finds herself in the conflict stricken sands of Syria. Unknowingly signed up for Jihad along with her family, Zahi is now the newest recruit of the Islamic State. In a hostile environment with no support and where a single misplaced word could mean death, she is able to make contact with her brother back home. Thus is set in motion a web of deception, courage and tragedy as she attempts to escape.Based on the little known and insidious operations of the Islamic State this book is a startling account of how the Islamic State has perfected a cross-country operation that converts thousands to a depraved cause. Taken from real life events, this gritty account describes in horrifying detail not only the very real and very elaborate functioning of the Islamic State but the motivations that operate behind it.An authentically written portrait of life in the Islam State, this book will force you to tread carefully as it shatters your illusions. Combining research and accurate information with the heady pace of a political intrigue, this is a ticket that you cannot miss out on.In a world that is rocked by the violence of a rising Islamic fundamentalism, A Ticket to Syria is that disturbing thriller which is actually true.