Cultural Region/Arab World
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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
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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
$18.00 Add to cartA 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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Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai
$30.00 Add to cartThe images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors-but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In t
- Author: Mahdavi, Pardis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0804772207
- Language: English
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The Arabian Nights
$17.95 Add to cartThe stories of The Arabian Nights (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories) are famously told by the Princess Shahrazad, under the threat of death should the king lose in… [more below]
- Author: Mahdi, Muhsin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331660
- Language: English
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God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
$17.99 Add to cartThe truth about the Christian Crusades and Muslim Jihad.
- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061582603
- Language: English
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The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cartIn the second edition of The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know, renowned Middle East scholar James L. Gelvin explains how in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, the American invasion… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Gelvin, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0197622097
- Language: English
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The Yacoubian Building
$18.99 Add to cartAugust Book Sense Pick
A fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed ‘scientist of women.’ A purring, voluptuous siren. A young shop-girl enduring the clammy touch of her boss and hating herself for acceptin
- Author: Al Aswany, Alaa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060878134
- Language: English
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Season of the Sandstorms [With Stickers]
$6.99 Add to cartThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!
Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East. Ther- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Merlin Mission #6
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0375830324
- Language: English
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Mornings in Jenin
$19.99 Add to cartA heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that does for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan.
Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly remove- Author: Abulhawa, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15, 2010
- ISBN10: 1608190463
- Language: English
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Lawrence of Arabia: My Journey in Search of T. E. Lawrence
$32.00 Add to cartA vivid and illuminating biography of the famed T. E. Lawrence, written by “the world’s greatest living explorer,” Ranulph Fiennes.
As a young British intelligence officer in Cairo, archaeologist and- Author: Fiennes, Ranulph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365516
- Language: English
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Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power
$19.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world’s most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia’s ch… [more below]
- Author: Hope, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0306846632
- Language: English
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The Monk of Mokha
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A gripping, triumphant adventure” (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of The Circle–the incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Fr… [more below]
- Author: Eggers, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1101971444
- Language: English
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One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
$17.99 Add to cartKing Shahryar kills a new wife every night, because he is afraid she will stop loving him. But his new bride Shahrazad has a clever plan to save herself. Her nightly stories–of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Story Collections
- Author: McCaughrean, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0192750135
- 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
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History – Abridged Edition
$24.95 Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khald甁 (d
- Series: Princeton Classics #13
- Author: Khaldûn, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 27, 2015
- ISBN10: 0691166285
- Language: English
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
$18.00 Read moreThe 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0375714669
- Language: English
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