Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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Life in a Country Album: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWinner, 2020 Palestine Book AwardFinalist, 2019 Foreword Indies Award
From migrations to pop culture, loss to la d駻ive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape–bord
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Handal, Nathalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 115
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0822965941
- Language: English
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The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State
$31.65 Add to cartAn expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s
For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem,- Author: Avineri, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094791
- Language: English
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The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
$19.00 Add to cartPrior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South
- Author: Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0307388506
- Language: English
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When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty
$21.99 Add to cartThe “golden age of Islam” in the eighth and ninth centuries was as significant to world history as the Roman Empire was in the first and second centuries. The rule of Baghdad’s Abbasid Dynasty stretch… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0306814803
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
$40.99 Add to cartIn Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Te… [more below]
- Author: Axworthy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199322260
- Language: English
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The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWith flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman presents a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades, bringing together issues of colonialism, cultural exchange, economic exploitation, and the relat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Tyerman, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0192806556
- Language: English
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In the Land of Israel
$14.95 Add to cart“An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemi… [more below]
- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0156481146
- Language: English
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The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man’s Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Mystery
$17.99 Add to cartThe Secret of the Great Pyramid is a thrilling intellectual adventure story about the most exciting discovery in Egyptology in decades. Bob Brier, along with French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, tells
- Author: Brier, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0061655538
- Language: English
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Modern Table: Kosher Recipes for Everyday Gatherings
$35.00 Add to cartThe Modern Table, by acclaimed chef and author Kim Kushner, presents kosher cuisine in a fresh, contemporary light. Jam-packed with 75 simple and delicious recipes, entertaining ideas, and menu inspir… [more below]
- Author: Kushner, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1773271660
- Language: English
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Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity
$70.00 Add to cartLouis Cartier (1875-1942), the grandson of Cartier founder Louis-Fran?is, was an impassioned collector and patron of the arts. He was particularly entranced by Islamic arts, especially Persian book ar
- Author: Ecker, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024790
- Language: English
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These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartKingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist
A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good-a good person, a good citizen, a good teache
- Author: Charara, Hayan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1571315411
- Language: English
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My Voice Sought the Wind
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Abulhawa, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: November 01 2013
- ISBN10: 193598232X
- Language: English
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
$17.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR
An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. –Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a- Author: Minoui, Delphine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 125080017X
- Language: English
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Warrior Police
$25.00 Add to cartFor the first time ever, author Gordon Cucullu gives readers an explosive inside look at modern military police units and their role in defending our freedom.
America has been at war on several fronts- Author: Cucullu, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013135
- Language: English
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Rumi: Food of Middle Eastern Appearance
$30.00 Read moreFresh, defiantly inauthentic Middle Eastern-inspired recipes that are once both delicious and clich? free.
Author chef Joseph Abboud thinks of food as a conduit to greater things and presents it her- Author: Abboud, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1922616443
- Language: English
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History’s Greatest Treasures
$20.00 Add to cartSUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER – From the award-winning historian and broadcaster comes an immersive, awe-inspiring tour of the ancient sites that kindle our imagination and afford us a glimpse into our shar… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593686152
- Language: English
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Catalogue of the New Corpus of Documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem
$57.99 Add to cartThe documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem constitute one of the most important corpora from the pre-Ottoman Middle East covering broad areas of social, political, cultural and eco
- Author: Aljoumani, Said
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 229
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 3111253147
- Language: English
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A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 2: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom
$27.99 Add to cart“Another solid work of history from an author and historian who truly grasps the mysteries of ancient Egypt.” – Kirkus Reviews
Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of A- Series: History of Ancient Egypt
- Author: Romer, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1250833493
- Language: English
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Our Smallest Ally
$14.99 Add to cartOur Smallest Ally by William Wigram is a compelling account of the vicissitudes and events that befell the Assyrian nation, Britain’s smallest ally, during World War One. Dr. Wigram, a long-standing m… [more below]
- Author: Wigram, William Ainger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: April 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0982712413
- Language: English
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In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
$26.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Rick Atkinson (Liberation Trilogy) comes an eyewitness account of the war against Iraq and a vivid portrait of a remarkable group of soldiers.
“A bea- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805077731
- Language: English
