Middle East - General
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The Middle East for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartDemystifies the area’s culture, politics, and religions
Explore Middle Eastern history from ancient to modern times
Looking to better understand the Middle East? This plain-English guide explains th… [more below]
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Davis, Craig S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0764554832
- Language: English
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
$28.00 Add to cartA sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation
- Author: Fisk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: February 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400075173
- Language: English
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Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
$31.99 Add to cartWith the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Robert Fisk’s explosive Pity the Nation recounts Sharon and Arafat’s … [more below]
- Series: Nation Books
- Author: Fisk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 24 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254424
- Language: English
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Slavery in the Arab World
$29.85 Add to cart“…A comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today…”-Arab Book World
- Author: Gordon, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 1998
- ISBN10: 1561310239
- Language: English
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Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
$28.99 Add to cartTending one’s fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, sterile roads and seam zones
- Author: Makdisi, Saree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338444
- Language: English
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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
$18.00 Read moreA SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Masterly and brilliant”–Simon Sebag Montefiore “A book of vast scope and stunning insight.”–Anthony Sattin, Spectator “Commanding erudition and a swashbu- Author: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0300251637
- Language: English
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
$35.00 Read moreHow the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages
For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these relig- Author: Morton, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541616308
- Language: English
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Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
$22.95 Read more‘Clear-eyed and illuminating.’
‘A rich, superbly researched, balanced history of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.’
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor
General Dav- Author: Rundell, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1838605916
- Language: English
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The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East
$27.99 Add to cartMore than a decade before Israel’s New Historians revolutionized the study of Israeli history, English journalist David Hirst wrote The Gun and the Olive Branch, a classic, myth-breaking general histo… [more below]
- Series: Nation Books
- Author: Hirst, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 26 2003
- ISBN10: 1560254831
- Language: English
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Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
$29.95 Add to cartSince the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of th… [more below]
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 1859843409
- Language: English
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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response
$18.99 Add to cartA History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes
In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians
- Author: Balakian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0060558709
- Language: English
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Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilization
$28.95 Read moreA fascinating journey down the Tigris River–the lifeblood of human civilization–in search of history and hope.
Starting at the source of this storied river, where ancient Mesopotamians and Assyrian- Author: McCarron, Leon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365079
- Language: English
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A New York Times Notable Book – Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography – A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential … [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0307476413
- Language: English
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle E
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2020
“[A] sweeping and authoritative history” (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle Eas- Author: Ghattas, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 5, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250789389
- Language: English
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Deceit of an Ally (new edition)
$20.99 Add to cartUnAmerican Deep-State NSA Cabal Duped Israel in ’73
Bruce Brill and four other American servicemen, who worked for the US National Security Agency (NSA) in 1973, knew Egypt and Syria were going to atta… [more below]
- Author: Brill, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 108818653X
- Language: English
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O Jerusalem
$25.00 Add to cartNow a major motion picture, this remarkable classic recounts, moment by moment, the spellbinding process that gave birth to the state of Israel.Collins and Lapierre weave a brilliant tapestry of shatt
- Author: Collins, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 15, 1988
- ISBN10: 0671662414
- Language: English
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Orientalism
$19.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking critique of the West’s historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is–three decades after its first publication–one of the most important books written about ou
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 12 1979
- ISBN10: 039474067X
- Language: English
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River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
$18.95 Add to cartFollow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India.
An acclaimed- Author: Jarman, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365427
- Language: English
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Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998
$26.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
At a time when the Middle East has come closer to achieving peace than ever before, eminent Israeli historian Benny Morris explodes the myths cherished by both sides to p- Author: Morris, Benny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: August 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0679744754
- Language: English
