Arab & Middle Eastern
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A Rebel in Gaza: A Daughter of Rafah Speaks
$18.00 Add to cart“Gaza has always been rebellious… stubborn, addictive. I’m her daughter, and I look like her.”
Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the face
- Author: Alghoul, Asmaa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660798
- Language: English
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The Shah
$26.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the last Shah of Iran, tracing his dramatic rise and fall and his role in the creation of the contemporary Islamic Republic.
Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he- Author: Milani, Abbas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0230340385
- Language: English
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The Lifta Hamideh Ismail Legacy
$13.27 Add to cartSue Hamideh’s heartwarming tribute to her late husband and his remarkable family-from its roots in Lifta, a tiny Palestinian village outside Jerusalem, to Texas, where much of the family eventually se… [more below]
- Author: Hamideh, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1958640379
- Language: English
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Lejos de Egipto
$25.95 Read moreThis richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty … [more below]
- Author: Aciman, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 8417977759
- Language: Spanish
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The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom
$19.99 Read moreThis passionate autobiography–at once history lesson, prison memoir, metaphysical inquiry, love story, and cry for justice–provides insights into the Israeli occupation and the struggle of the Pales… [more below]
- Author: Srour, Nasser Abu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1635423872
- Language: English
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It’s Not What You Think: An American Woman in Saudi Arabia
$26.99 Read moreFrom the author of Threading My Prayer Rug, an eye-opening view of life in Saudi Arabia.
It’s Not What You Think is a wry, incisive account of working in Saudi Arabia that offers insight into that insu… [more below]- Author: Rehman, Sabeeha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1956763023
- Language: English
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A Rift in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle
$16.99 Add to cartAn engrossing family memoir that shines a light on Palestine’s history, offering a wise, sobering view of how radically conditions there have changed since the late Ottoman Empire, from the award-winn… [more below]
- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1635425212
- Language: English
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Two Hundred Miles From Baghdad: Cultures, Conflicts, and the Lost Art of Hitchhiking
$18.00 Add to cartBy planes, trains, and automobiles, journalist Lou Salome has hitched his way through some of the most interesting – and volatile – places on Earth.
In September 1958, Lou Salome hurried past Barney Mc
- Author: Salome, Louis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 195866930X
- Language: English
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Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine
$17.95 Add to cartSummoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer t… [more below]
- Series: Arab American Writing
- Author: Shihab, Aziz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 081560968X
- Language: English
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
$18.99 Add to cartA Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.
My mother, Meher, believed that we choose our lives for the lessons w
- Author: Farah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1739355024
- Language: English
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
$9.99 Add to cartA Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.
My mother, Meher, believed that we choose our lives for the lessons w
- Author: Farah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1739355008
- Language: English
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The Lifta Hamideh Ismail Legacy
$26.60 Add to cartSue Hamideh’s heartwarming tribute to her late husband and his remarkable family-from its roots in Lifta, a tiny Palestinian village outside Jerusalem, to Texas, where much of the family eventually se… [more below]
- Author: Hamideh, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1958640387
- Language: English
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From Beirut to America
$11.99 Add to cart“gives readers hope and encouragement that when one has such strong conviction about a particular task or goal, nothing can stand in the way.” –BookTrib review.
“The writing style is warm and genuine.… [more below]- Author: Challita, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1088218903
- Language: English
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One More Mountain: Fleeing Iran for America
$32.99 Add to cartThis book is the inspirational true story of young man willing to risk it all.
Since the Islamic Revolution began in 1979, millions of Iranians have fled to Turkey seeking refuge from religious and pol
- Author: Nurdel, Mansur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 08 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987808603
- Language: English
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This Arab Life: A Generation’s Journey into Silence
$22.65 Add to cartThis Arab Life is an intimate and honest exploration of a rising Arab generation’s descent into silence. Personal and panoramic, granular and sweeping, the book offers a raw account of the unremitting
- Author: Ghandour, Amal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1954805268
- Language: English
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As Figs in Autumn: One Year in a Forever War
$27.00 Add to cartIn his final college semester, Ben awakens to read on his computer screen of the death of his classmate and childhood friend Avi. Avi’s death is sudden and senseless, killed by a drunk driver on his w
- Author: Bastomski, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1953002242
- Language: English
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Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
$19.95 Add to cartA unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of Arab-Jews
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. ‘Remark- Author: Shlaim, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0861548108
- Language: English
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Message in a Matchbox
$19.95 Add to cartIt all started during our family reunion in the summer of 2006, when I discovered an invaluable treasure: my oldest brother’s memories of growing up. His name is Mohsen, and he was born in Tehran, Ira
- Author: Fashandi, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1737581469
- Language: English
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The Weight of Ghosts
$17.95 Add to cartThe Weight of Ghosts is a lyrical memoir by an author struggling with the death of her older son and sifting through the details of her life.
- Author: Halaby, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1636281346
- Language: English
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Hakim’s Odyssey: Book 2: From Turkey to Greece
$29.95 Read moreWhat choices would you make to reunite your family?
“You know, Haidi, we’re going on a trip. A really big trip to find our way to Mama.” In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope i- Author: Toulme, Fabien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1637790082
- Language: English
