Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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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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Crimson Earth
$9.99 Add to cartTravel across the ages with Lady Zaynab as she meets with various divine prophets and noble angels in a quest to explain the meaning of Ashura and her timeless statement on Imam Hussein’s sacrifice: “
- Author: Jamal, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1958882100
- Language: English
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No Place to Hide: A Brain Surgeon’s Long Journey Home from the Iraq War
$19.99 Add to cartJoin Air Force veteran Dr. W. Lee Warren as he chronicles his fascinating, heartbreaking, and enlightening experience as a neurosurgeon in an Iraq War combat hospital.
Warren’s life as a neurosurgeon i
- Author: Warren, W. Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 031035756X
- Language: English
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The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape from War to Freedom
$18.99 Add to cartPrize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teena
- Author: Mustafa, Nujeen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062567748
- Language: English
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Dust to Dust: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartTim O’Brien meets Annie Dillard in this remarkable memoir by debut author Benjamin Busch. Much more than a war memoir, Dust to Dust brilliantly explores the passage through a lifetime–a moving medita
- Author: Busch, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0062014854
- Language: English
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
$18.00 Add to cart“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef ‘s bookstore–the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failur
- Author: Wassef, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858860
- Language: English
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Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience
$40.00 Add to cartStories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their everyday lives in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Their narratives amplify perspectives
- Author: Dunsky, Marda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0268200335
- Language: English
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead Mysticism of the Pert Em Heru
$28.95 Add to cartTHE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD MYSTICISM OF THE PERT EM HERU ” I Know myself, I know myself, I am One With God -From the Pert Em Heru “The Ru Pert em Heru” or “Ancient Egyptian Book of The Dead,” or “B… [more below]
- Author: Ashby, Muata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1884564283
- Language: English
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The Coup: 1953, the Cia, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations
$19.95 Add to cartIn August 1953, the CIA orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United State
- Author: Abrahamian, Ervand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1620970864
- Language: English
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Culture and Resistance
$36.00 Add to cartEdward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history, and social change. He reveals his thoughts on the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, and
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1608465829
- Language: English
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The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartFarah Ahmedi recounts her heartbreaking journey from war-torn Kabul to America in her New York Times bestselling inspirational memoir.
Farah Ahmedi’s “poignant tale of survival” (Chicago Tribune) chro- Author: Ahmedi, Farah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 141691837X
- Language: English
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies
$22.00 Add to cartA Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses behind the failure to detect or prevent the 9/11 attacks, and details the Bush administration’s subsequent misuse of intelligence to sell preemptive
- Author: Bamford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 140003034X
- Language: English
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A Walking Tour of the Gospels: Experience the Life and Lessons of Jesus
$19.99 Add to cartJesus’s life and teachings were bonded to the soil, the scenery, and the people of the Holy Land. Walk the biblical landscape with John A. Beck as he brings key events from the Gospels to life in 150 … [more below]
- Author: Beck, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1640701656
- Language: English
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Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts: The Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt
$26.95 Read moreA radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals
– Reveals the mystical nature of Egyptian civilization denied by orthodox Egyptologists – Exami- Author: Naydler, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0892817550
- Language: English
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Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
$28.00 Add to cart“The most clear and engaging history of the deadly, historic partnership between Western powers and political Islam.”–Salon.com
Devil’s Game is the first comprehensive account of America’s misguided- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Dreyfuss, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0805081372
- 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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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
$16.00 Add to cartBased on Evan Wright’s National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO(R) original mini-series.
Within hours- Author: Wright, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0425224740
- Language: English
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Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land
$14.99 Add to cartAn urgent and deeply necessary work, Dear Zealots offers three powerful essays that speak directly to our present age, on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world.
“Concise, evocative . .- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0358175445
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Heart: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartA new volume of poems by the award-winning author of October Palace.
- Author: Hirshfield, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060951699
- Language: English
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Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia
$26.95 Read moreA revelatory new history of the colonization of the American West
**Longlisted for the 2023 Cundill History Prize** The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settl- Author: Koch, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1839763698
- Language: English
