Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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Us, in Progress: Short Stories about Young Latinos
$9.99 Add to cart“Beautifully written with candor, honesty, and perfect brevity. A collection not to be missed.” (Booklist starred review)
Acclaimed author and Pura Belpr? Award honoree Lulu Delacre’s beautifully illu
- Author: Delacre, Lulu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0062392158
- 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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Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
$22.99 Read moreA definitive account of the Gulf War told by Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Rick Atkinson.
This previously untold story of the US war with Iraq in the early 1990s, Atkinson follows the 42-day wa… [more below]
- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 19 1994
- ISBN10: 0395710839
- Language: English
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Nothing More to Lose
$16.00 Read moreNothing More to Lose is the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear in English. Hailed across the Arab world and beyond, Darwish’s poetry walks the razor’s edge between … [more below]
- Series: NYRB/Poets
- Author: Darwish, Najwan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177304
- Language: English
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The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process
$0.00 Read moreEvery negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed to establish a stable and lasting peace. This is the history of what was attempted, why those failure… [more below]
- Author: Spencer, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 164293254X
- Language: English
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Israel’s Edge: The Story of Talpiot the Idf’s Most Elite Unit
$18.00 Read moreInstead of being trained to fight, the few soldiers each year selected for Talpiot are taught how to think. In order to join this unit they have to commit to being in the army for ten years, rather th
- Author: Gewirtz, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 9652297135
- Language: English
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A Thousand Questions
$16.99 Read moreSet against the backdrop of Karachi, Pakistan, Saadia Faruqi’s tender and honest middle grade novel tells the story of two girls navigating a summer of change and family upheaval with kind hearts, big
- Author: Faruqi, Saadia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0062943200
- Language: English
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The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
$27.99 Read moreA NYTBR Editor’s Choice
“This is a book of radical empathy, crossing many borders – not just borders that separate nations, but also borders of form, borders of meaning, and borders of possibility. It
- Author: Aikins, Matthieu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0063058588
- Language: English
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Bitter Orange Tree
$26.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the Dublin Literary Award
A TIME Best Book of the Year
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one you- Author: Alharthi, Jokha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 164622003X
- Language: English
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Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace
$35.00 Read moreThe first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth century
The history of Jerusalem is one of conflict, faith, and empire. Few cities have been attacked- Author: Hosler, John D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0300255144
- Language: English
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Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium
$29.95 Read moreThe Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiqu
- Author: Peters, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0060538112
- Language: English
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First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics: A Book for Beginners
$14.95 Read moreThe dearth of suitable introductory texts presents a serious obstacle to the study of the Egyptian language, so this practical grammar answers a longstanding need. Its well-known and highly respected … [more below]
- Series: Egypt
- Author: Budge, E. A. Wallis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0486430995
- Language: English
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The First Crusade: The Call from the East
$24.00 Read more“The most significant contribution to rethinking the origins and course of the First Crusade for a generation.”
“Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense
–Mark Whittow, Times Literary Supplement- Author: Frankopan, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0674970780
- Language: English
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We’re Off to Make ‘Umrah
$10.95 Read moreSalam, my dear friends,
I hope you’re all well.
If you’ve time to listen
I’ve something to tellAbout the first mosque,
A beautiful sight,
Which we face when we pray,
Where the nur shines brightDiscover
- Author: Munshey, Sana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0860374580
- Language: English
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Poems of Nazim Hikmet
$19.95 Read moreA centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey’s greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet’s one hundredth birthday, this exciting edition of the poems of the Nazim Hikmet… [more below]
- Series: Karen and Michael Braziller Books
- Author: Hikmet, Nazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0892552743
- Language: English
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The Yogurt Cookbook – 10-Year Anniversary Edition: Recipes from Around the World
$25.00 Read moreThe Yogurt Cookbook is the ultimate guide to cooking with yogurt and its significance around the world.
Yogurt is consumed in a variety of ways in many cultures throughout the world. The author–truly- Author: Der Haroutunian, Arto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717701
- Language: English
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Deep Are These Distances Between Us
$18.00 Read morePoems that imagine Persian and Iranian American lives.
In Deep Are These Distances Between Us, Susan Atefat-Peckham troubles preconceptions of nationhood and fixed systems of power by bringing the re- Author: Atefat-Peckham, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1933880961
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
$42.95 Add to cartThough she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman–the daughter of Romanian-born
- Author: Wallance, Gregory J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1612349439
- Language: English
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DK Eyewitness Jerusalem, Israel and the Palestinian Territories
$24.99 Read moreWhether you want to float in the Dead Sea, visit the ruby-colored city of Petra, or tuck into Tel-Aviv’s sumptuous food scene, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Jerusa… [more below]
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0241462525
- Language: English
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La Syrena: Visions of a Syrian Mermaid from Space
$16.95 Read moreWinner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize
LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore… [more below]- Author: El Ghadbanah, Banah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 195053944X
- Language: English
