Middle East - General
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The Jordanians: And the People of the Jordan
$13.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1980, The Jordanians presents historical and statistical data as well as an entertaining and witty narrative that treats the reader to a peek into the Middle Eastern cultural herita… [more below]
- Author: Abu Jaber, Kamel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1843919877
- Language: English
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When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty
$21.99 Add to cartThe “golden age of Islam” in the eighth and ninth centuries was as significant to world history as the Roman Empire was in the first and second centuries. The rule of Baghdad’s Abbasid Dynasty stretch… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0306814803
- Language: English
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Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
$29.95 Add to cartIn July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary general of the “Party of God,” burst into the spotlight of the West… [more below]
- Author: Nasrallah, Sayyed Hassan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844671534
- Language: English
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A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East
$37.00 Add to cartAcross centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the … [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Middle East #6
- Author: Sharkey, Heather J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: April 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0521186870
- Language: English
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The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades: Extracted and Translated from the Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi
$19.95 Add to cartA Saracen stronghold throughout the long history of the Crusades, Damascus served as the capital city for Nur al-Deen, Saladin, and other medieval Muslim leaders. From this prime vantage point comes a… [more below]
- Author: Gibb, H. A. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0486425193
- Language: English
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A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
$33.99 Add to cartIn the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region … [more below]
- Author: Barr, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0393344258
- Language: English
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines–and Future
$20.00 Add to cartWith over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of l
- Author: House, Karen Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0307473287
- Language: English
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Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays
$13.95 Add to cartThe haunting poetry of [Oz’s] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture.” —Washington Post Book World
Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience to advocate for a tw- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0156001926
- Language: English
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Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco That Pushed America and Its World to the Brink
$30.00 Read moreIn recognition of the 10th anniversary of the attack in Benghazi, a noted Libya expert and eyewitness to the attack provides a startling reconsideration of one of the defining controversies of our era
- Author: Chorin, Ethan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 030682972X
- Language: English
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The Heart of Lebanon
$44.95 Add to cartWhen celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the Lebanese countryside, from the rising mountains to the
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Allen, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0815611293
- Language: English
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Language of War, Language of Peace: Palestine, Israel and the Search for Justice
$15.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli Palestine conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create – legal and cultural – tha
- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1781253765
- Language: English
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Qatar: A Modern History, Updated Edition
$34.95 Add to cartWhat role does Qatar play in the Middle East, and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the ruling Al-Thani family shaped Qatar from a traditional tribal society and British protector
- Author: Fromherz, Allen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1626162034
- Language: English
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A History of Religious Rules: A Legacy of Piety and Coercion
$19.99 Add to cartThis book is a history and a suggestion as to how to approach religious differences . It is not a work of theology. It is not about belief, faith, God, or salvation. The prophets and founders of the g
- Author: Varner, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987522905
- Language: English
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One Thousand Roads to Mecca: (Updated with New Material)
$24.00 Read moreMichael Wolfe’s exemplary (Library Journal) collection of historical writings on the Hajj, now updated with a new introduction by Reza Aslan.
Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage- Author: Wolfe, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 22 1998
- ISBN10: 802135994
- Language: English
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The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad
$70.83 Add to cartAbdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in myster… [more below]
- Author: Hegghammer, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 718
- Publish Date: March 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0521765951
- Language: English
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
$17.99 Add to cartLONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL
Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section
- Author: Pearlman, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0062654446
- Language: English
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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
$17.00 Add to cartA major New York Times bestseller by NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel–this riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen close up “should be r… [more below]
- Author: Engel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1451635125
- Language: English
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In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
$23.99 Add to cartIn just over a hundred years–from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750–the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Afri… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Hoyland, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190618574
- Language: English
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Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran
$17.99 Add to cartThe “astonishing and deeply poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir of one man’s search for a beloved family friend explores the depth of Iranian culture and the sweep of its history, and transcends to… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1982142820
- Language: English
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The Middle East
$19.00 Add to cartRenowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years–from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832801
- Language: English
