Cultural Region/Arab World
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
$19.00 Add to cartA myth-shattering view of the Islamic world’s myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Wes
- Author: Al-Khalili, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120565
- Language: English
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
$42.99 Add to cartOne Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when Britain’s promise to both Jews and Arabs that they wou
- Author: Segev, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0805065873
- Language: English
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
$17.95 Add to cartA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0863565247
- Language: English
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The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
$19.99 Read moreFor centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzlin
- Author: Lyons, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1608190587
- Language: English
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Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
$35.00 Read moreA perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger’s diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in thei… [more below]
- Author: Indyk, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1101947543
- Language: English
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. – With a new Afterword – “Desert Queen…plucks Gertrude … [more below]
- Author: Wallach, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400096197
- Language: English
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
$20.00 Add to cartIn his classic book, T.E. Lawrence–forever known as Lawrence of Arabia–recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with a facility for l… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, T. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: June 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385418957
- Language: English
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In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
$17.99 Read moreA strikingly honest look into Islamic culture?–in particular women and Islam?–and what it takes for one woman to recreate herself in the land of invisible women.
Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain
- Author: Ahmed, Qanta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1402210876
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
$21.00 Add to cartA thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire.
The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0307473651
- Language: English
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The Gates of Zion
$15.99 Add to cartThe Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel’s statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forc… [more below]
- Series: Zion Chronicles #1
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1414301022
- Language: English
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How Many Donkeys?: An Arabic Counting Tale
$6.99 Read more2010 Best English Language Children’s Book, Sharjah International Book Fair
Jouha gets confused counting his donkeys while leading them to market. Jouha is loading his donkeys with dates to sell at th- Author: MacDonald, Margaret Read
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0807534250
- Language: English
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The Last Days
$17.99 Add to cartBook 2 in the bestselling 5-book thriller series that has sold over 1.2 million copies
“The Last Days is a . . . rip-roaring, heart-pounding, page-turning, high-octane geopolitical thriller.”
—Forbes“… [more below]
- Author: Rosenberg, Joel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1414312733
- Language: English
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The Stone of Laughter
$29.95 Read moreThe Stone of Laughter is a virile novel which brings forth the contradictory history of a city under fire through the life and dilemmas of a gay man. It is a bold and radical novel, full of black humo… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Voices (Hardcover)
- Author: Barakat, Hoda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1566561973
- Language: English
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The Story of Zahra
$16.95 Read moreZahra’s mother uses her as a cover for her meetings with a lover; Zahra’s strict father mistreats her for being complicit in her mother’s affair. Fleeing from Beirut in search of solace, Zahra stays w… [more below]
- Author: Al-Shaykh, Hanan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0385472064
- Language: English
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Arabian Nights
$9.99 Add to cartAli Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor: these are just some of the strange and amazing stories that clever Scheherazade tells to captivate her husband, King Shahryar…and to sav… [more below]
- Series: Classic Starts(r)
- Author: Woodside, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1402745737
- Language: English
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My Port of Beirut
$25.95 Read more“Magical…Lamia Ziadé tells the story of the explosion as she experienced it: from afar but in the heart. A book of love, mourning and anger”– Elle
On the evening of August 4, 2020, an explosion to
- Author: Ziadé, Lamia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745348122
- Language: English
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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
$20.00 Add to cart- Series: Saqi Essentials
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 1989
- ISBN10: 0805208984
- Language: English
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Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
$16.00 Read moreThe tales told by Scheherazade over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahryar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the e… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 30 1973
- ISBN10: 0140442898
- Language: English
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Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands
$40.00 Add to cartIn the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discr… [more below]
- Author: Green, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1773271539
- Language: English
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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in
$24.99 Add to cartToday’s Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 0306817403
- Language: English
