Cultural Region/Arab World
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Our Man In Kuwait
$29.99 Add to cartFrom world chemical weapons expert, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, ‘A brilliant marriage of fact and fiction’
Our Man In Kuwait is based around real events. Louise Burfitt-Dons was born and
- Author: Burfitt-Dons, Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: November 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1916449190
- Language: English
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Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State
$32.99 Add to cartIn this controversial exploration of the early history of Islam, archaeologist Yehuda D. Nevo and researcher Judith Koren present a revolutionary theory of the origins and development of the Islamic s… [more below]
- Series: Islamic Studies
- Author: Nevo, Yehuda D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 470
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1591020832
- Language: English
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
$18.99 Add to cart“A vital, inspiring book” (O, The Oprah Magazine)–a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that… [more below]
- Author: Al-Sharif, Manal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1476793034
- Language: English
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
$24.00 Add to cartThe fascinating continuation of the best-selling Persepolis, “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day” (Los Angeles Times). Marjane Satrapi dazzles with her heartrending graphic memoi… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Satrapi, Marjane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0375422889
- Language: English
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This Side of Peace: A Personal Account
$21.95 Add to cartFrom the world-recognized leader of the Palestinians comes an inside view of Arafat and of the secret negotiations and last-minute decisions that led to the Oslo Peace Talks.
An insider’s view of Mide- Author: Ashrawi, Hanan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 05 1996
- ISBN10: 068482342X
- Language: English
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The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs
$28.43 Add to cartThis important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-Jones examines the tribal forces which, he believes, “drive the Arabs i… [more below]
- Series: Edward Burlingame Book
- Author: Pryce-Jones, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1566638267
- Language: English
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Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
$40.99 Add to cartSince the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever a… [more below]
- Author: Pollack, Kenneth M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0190906960
- Language: English
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Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing Account Of A New England Sea Captain Enslaved By North African Arabs
$14.95 Add to cartPreviously published: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1965. First published in 1817 under title: An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce.
- Author: Riley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1599212110
- Language: English
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The Prophet of Mercy: How Muhammad (Pbuh) Rose Above Enmity Insult
$12.95 Add to cartTo delegitimize the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم is to call into question the entire message. During his time,… [more below]
- Author: Elshinawy, Mohammad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 184774172X
- Language: English
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The Arabs: A History
$24.99 Read moreThe internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Atlantic — now updated to cover the latest developme… [more below]
- Author: Rogan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 046509421X
- Language: English
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Aramco Brat: How Arabia, Oil, Gold, and Tragedy Shaped My Life
$29.95 Add to cartFrom a Pittsburgh trailer park to Harvard Business School, a youth’s journey set in the turbulent Middle East spiked with tragedy, wrong turns, unforced errors, luck, espionage, and family love. Wheth
- Author: Howard, Richard P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 9798985227208
- Language: English
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Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
$22.95 Add to cartHow the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the modern Middle East
In Making the Arab World, Fawaz Gerges, one of the world’s leading authorities on the Mi- Author: Gerges, Fawaz A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 069119646X
- Language: English
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The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
$32.00 Add to cartFor this newly expanded edition, Avi Shlaim has added four chapters and an epilogue that address the prime ministerships from Barak to Netanyahu in the “one book everyone should read for a concise his… [more below]
- Author: Shlaim, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0393346862
- Language: English
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What Have You Left Behind?
$17.95 Read moreIn 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilians in the Yemeni Civil War, which has killed over 350,000 people according to the UN. Inspired by the wo
- Author: Al-Maqtari, Bushra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1804270016
- Language: English
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The Temple in Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man
$12.99 Add to cartThis book contains the first published results of Schwaller’s 12 years of research at the temple of Luxor and its implications for interpreting the symbolic and mathematical processes of the Egyptians… [more below]
- Author: Schwaller De Lubicz, R. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0892810211
- Language: English
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Embroideries
$16.00 Read moreFrom the best-selling author of Persepolis comes a gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women.
“Bold, bewitchingly humorous and politically astute.” —Elle
Embroi- Series: Pantheon Graphic Novels
- Author: Satrapi, Marjane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 18 2006
- ISBN10: 0375714677
- Language: English
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In Search of Walid Masoud
$26.95 Add to cartWalid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization engaged in the armed struggle against Israel, sus
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 081560646X
- Language: English
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A Hundred and One Nights
$19.00 Add to cartA luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabi- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #10
- Author: Fudge, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1479873233
- Language: English
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Papa Sartre
$24.95 Add to cartAfter a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home to Iraq to launch an existentialist movement akin to that of his hero. Convinced that it falls upon him to introduce his country’s in
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Hardcover)
- Author: Bader, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 9774162986
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
$15.00 Add to cartThis award-winning novel-in-translation is clever tragicomedy that demonstrates the complex life of a Palestinian living in Israel.
Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggr- Author: Habiby, Emile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1623717027
- Language: English
