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Epic Encounters : Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945 (American Crossroads) (American Crossroads) (edit title)

Melani McAlister (Author) (edit contributors)

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Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book--now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war--Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military... read more

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When Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments opened in New York in November 1956, the critical consensus was that the director had created a middle-brow, melodramatic, and highly suspect account of the biblical story of Moses.

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  1. Melani McAlister (Author)

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