Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
$35.00 Read moreIn the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by a vast Islamic power, the centuries-old Ottoman Empire…. [more below]
- Author: Rutledge, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0863569501
- Language: English
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The Long Way Back
$19.95 Read moreThe Long Way Back tells the story of four generations of the same family living in an old house in the Bab al-Shaykh area of Baghdad. Through exquisite layering of the overlapping worlds of the charac… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Al-Takarli, Fuad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 07 2007
- ISBN10: 9774160924
- Language: English
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The Theocrat
$18.95 Read moreThe Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history’s most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah (“the ruler by order of God”), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth ce… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Himmich, Bensalem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2009
- ISBN10: 977416251X
- Language: English
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The President’s Gardens
$16.99 Read moreIn this extraordinary novel by heralded Iraqi author Muhsin Al-Ramli, One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner against the backdrop of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
“A profoundly moving investigati… [more below]- Author: Al-Ramli, Muhsin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0857056808
- Language: English
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Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
$31.95 Read more***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***
During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba – which t
- Author: Allan, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0745342914
- Language: English
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Memo and the Unexpected Gift
$17.99 Read moreThere’s something unusual about the kitten Memo finds in his yard.
Memo lives in a small cottage with his grandmother. But his grandma can’t see very well anymore, and she falls asleep all the time. Me
- Author: Şeran, Funda Özlem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1662512929
- Language: English
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Cleopatra Tells All!
$16.95 Read moreWhat would happen if the famous people of ancient Egypt were given the opportunity to tell their version of historical events–in their own words? It would be incredible! In this highly entertaining a
- Series: History Speaks #1
- Author: Naunton, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0500652562
- Language: English
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The Mezze Cookbook: Sharing Plates from the Middle East
$39.95 Add to cartA vibrant collection of exciting, exotic, and sharing-plate recipes from across the Middle East
More than 135 home-cooking recipes in this book explore the regional diversity of Middle Eastern sharing
- Author: Hage, Salma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0714876852
- Language: English
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Rama and the Dragon: An Egyptian Novel
$19.95 Read moreThis multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion between Rama–the symbol of multiplicity a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Al-Kharrat, Edwar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: June 30 2014
- ISBN10: 9774166256
- Language: English
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Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo
$22.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessness
The 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely- Author: Anziska, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0691202451
- Language: English
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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of A History of God skillfully narrates the history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
“Holy War brings compassion, objec- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 27 2001
- ISBN10: 0385721404
- Language: English
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Arabic Poems
$20.00 Add to cartA bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition.
The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep,- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Hammond, Marle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0375712437
- Language: English
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Black Flags: The Rise of Isis
$19.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread wit… [more below]
- Author: Warrick, Joby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0804168938
- Language: English
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In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water
$30.00 Read moreA writer’s travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River–exploring the long conflict over water supply
Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has- Author: Fergusson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300244150
- Language: English
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The Cheapest Nights
$18.00 Read moreFrom the “genius of the short story,” a collection illuminating the lives of the Egyptian lower class by one of the most important and innovative voices of Egyptian literature
A Penguin Classic One of- Author: Idris, Yusuf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0143133985
- Language: English
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Adonis: Selected Poems
$20.00 Read moreThe first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today
“Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0300181256
- 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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Homes: A Refugee Story
$19.95 Read more2019 Canada Reads Audience Choice Winner and Finalist for the 2018 Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction and the Shaugnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left thei
- Author: Al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1988298288
- Language: English
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Merits of the Plague
$18.00 Read moreThe preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time
A Penguin Classic Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and re- Author: Hajar Al-Asqalani, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0143136615
- Language: English
