Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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The Turkish Cookbook: Exploring the Food of a Timeless Cuisine
$35.00 Read more“Greet a Turk and you will eat. Whether you are in the busy streets of Istanbul, in a small village in Anatolia, on the slopes above Bursa, or in a resort in the Mediterranean, the enticing aroma of g
- Author: Basan, Ghillie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0754835154
- Language: English
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Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
$19.99 Add to cartIn his New York Times bestselling chronicle of military life, Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrance… [more below]
- Author: Swofford, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0743244915
- Language: English
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The Lycian Shore: A Turkish Odyssey
$17.95 Add to cart‘There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical.’ Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient … [more below]
- Series: Freya Stark Collection
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1848853122
- Language: English
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From the Land of Nightingales and Roses: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen
$35.00 Read moreIn From the Land of Nightingales and Roses, Iranian food blogger and home cook, Maryam Sinaiee, takes us through a full year in the Persian kitchen. Each seasonal chapter offers up delicious recipes a… [more below]
- Author: Sinaiee, Maryam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1623719674
- Language: English
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The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs
$28.43 Add to cartThis important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-Jones examines the tribal forces which, he believes, “drive the Arabs i… [more below]
- Series: Edward Burlingame Book
- Author: Pryce-Jones, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1566638267
- Language: English
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Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
$24.99 Add to cartThe Holocaust and the Nakba (“Catastrophe,” Palestinian Israelis’ name for the War of Independence) both marked Israel’s founding, and these two world-changing events continue to form the generations … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1459710118
- Language: English
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The Promised Land of Israel: An In-Depth Look at Zionism in the Quran and in Jewish History
$34.95 Add to cartWhat would you say if the Holy Quran turned out to contain components consistent with Zionism? What if the Quran in its very philological content blesses and encourages the Jews to live in the land of
- Author: Pournia, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: May 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885054713
- Language: English
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The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care
$32.99 Add to cartIn 1948, the State of Israel was founded. While the philosophy of Zionism that advocated for a Jewish homeland in what was then known as Palestine dates back to 1897, the creation of Israel in 1948 wa… [more below]
- Author: Kovalik, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1510780599
- Language: English
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English
$52.99 Add to cartOne of the world’s foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English translation of the two hundred longest and most important … [more below]
- Author: Martinez, Florentino Garcia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 587
- Publish Date: February 06 1996
- ISBN10: 0802841937
- Language: English
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Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power
$19.99 Add to cart“A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media.” — San Francisco Chronicle
Wael Ghonim was a little-known, thirty-year-old Google exec- Author: Ghonim, Wael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0547867093
- Language: English
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The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad
$70.83 Add to cartAbdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in myster… [more below]
- Author: Hegghammer, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 718
- Publish Date: March 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0521765951
- Language: English
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Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End
$16.95 Add to cartIs Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future?
The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even av
- Author: Gordis, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0470643900
- Language: English
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
$24.00 Read moreAfter serving six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, Robert M. Gates believed that he had left Washington politics behind for good–but when he received the call from the Wh
- Author: Gates, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 030794963X
- Language: English
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Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World
$29.99 Add to cartIt is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of dazzling items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on … [more below]
- Author: Brier, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0197635059
- Language: English
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The Complete Tutankhamun: 100 Years of Discovery
$50.00 Read moreOn November 4, 1922, Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter’s long search in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings drew to a triumphant close: Tutankhamun’s tomb had been found. As news of the discovery spread, and a
- Author: Reeves, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0500052166
- Language: English
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The Story of Egypt
$17.95 Add to cartThe story of the world’s greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that have shaped the world. It is full of spectacular cities and epic stories–an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes… [more below]
- Author: Fletcher, Joann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1681774569
- Language: English
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Home: New Arabic Poems
$16.95 Add to cart“Unbelievably exciting…These are poems to read and reread, repeating the lines as though they were a secret between yourself and the page.” —The Paris Review
Evoking the sights, sounds, and tastes o
- Series: Calico #2
- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1949641074
- Language: English
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These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons
$24.95 Read moreHundreds of thousands of Palestinians have experienced life in Israel’s prisons since 1967, as did many more in previous decades during the course of the ongoing Israeli military occupation. Yet rarel… [more below]
- Author: Baroud, Ramzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1949762092
- Language: English
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Confronting Empire
$19.95 Add to cartBrilliant and insightful political analyses of key political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.
- Author: Ahmad, Eqbal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1608466213
- Language: English
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While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World
$19.99 Read moreA groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller.
Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr–- Author: Badr, Ahmed M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1449496423
- Language: English
