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February 25, 2008
in History, Middle East Studies, Military History, Political Science, Religion, Social Science, Yale Press Podcast

Leading specialist lauds Foxbats over Dimona

February 25, 2008
in History, Middle East Studies, Military History, Political Science, Religion, Social Science, Yale Press Podcast

Writing for the Middle East Journal, Mark N. Katz favorably reviewed Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez. Professor Katz, an expert on Moscow’s foreign policy toward the Middle East, was blown away by the book’s compelling argument and unique

January 23, 2006
in Ancient History, History, Humanities

The First Great Woman in History

January 23, 2006
in Ancient History, History, Humanities

Called “the first great woman in history,” Hatshepsut reigned for two decades during Egypt’s early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century BCE. First acting as regent for her young nephew Thutmose III, in 1473 BCE she assumed the title Pharaoh and exercised the full powers of the throne as senior