Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
-
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
$31.99 Add to cartWith the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Robert Fisk’s explosive Pity the Nation recounts Sharon and Arafat’s … [more below]
- Series: Nation Books
- Author: Fisk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 24 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254424
- Language: English
-
Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen: Authentic Recipes for Fresh and Flavorful Mediterranean Home Cooking
$35.00 Add to cartContemporary Lebanese recipes from the host of PBS shows Cooking with Julie Taboulie and the Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen.
Since she was six years old, Julie Ann Sageer (nicknamed Julie Taboulie- Author: Sageer, Julie Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1250094933
- Language: English
-
Baladi: A Celebration of Food from Land and Sea
$26.95 Add to cartJoudie Kalla, author of the bestselling Palestine on a Plate, introduces readers to more of the Middle East’s best kept secret–Palestinian cuisine.
“Baladi” means “my home, my land, my country,” an- Author: Kalla, Joudie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1623711037
- Language: English
-
In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
$27.95 Add to cartGershon Baskin’s memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in … [more below]
- Author: Baskin, Gershon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0826521819
- Language: English
-
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century
$17.00 Add to cartQuestions and answers from two great philosophers
Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #72
- Author: Al-Taw??d?, Ab? ?ayy?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1479806358
- Language: English
-
Ahab’s House of Horrors: A Historiographic Study of the Military Campaigns of the House of Omri
$22.99 Read moreReconciling biblical and extrabiblical history
The extrabiblical testimony surrounding Israel’s early history is difficult to assess and synthesize. But numerous sources emerging from the ninth century
- Series: Studies in Biblical Archaeology, Geography, and History
- Author: Greenwood, Kyle R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 22 2023
- ISBN10: 168359648X
- Language: English
-
Through Love Pain Is Healed: 101 Poems of the Heart
$14.99 Add to cartJalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), an eminent Persian Sufi poet, lived and taught the path of love. This is a collection of 101 short poems by Rumi centered on the heart and various stages of love: Longing,
- Author: Rumi, Jalaluddin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0985056878
- Language: English
-
Palestine: History of a Lost Nation
$17.00 Add to cart“[Sabbagh’s] memoir offers a vital yet unfamiliar perspective on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a heartfelt, judicious invitation to dialogue.” —Publishers Weekly
Palestinians feature r- Author: Sabbagh, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0802143504
- Language: English
-
Farsi-English/English-Farsi (Persian) Dictionary & Phrasebook
$19.95 Add to cartFarsi is the official language of Iran, where over 67 million people speak its standard form. This phrase book and dictionary contains all the essential aspects of the language, detailing the alphabet… [more below]
- Author: Awde, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 219
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0781810736
- Language: English
-
Tethered to Stars: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartA Library Journal Best Book of Poetry of 2021
A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos–intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams.
Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tong
- Author: Joudah, Fady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315349
- Language: English
-
Reading & Writing Farsi (Persian): A Workbook for Self-Study: A Beginner’s Guide to the Farsi Script and Language (Free Online Audio & Printable Flash
$16.99 Add to cartLearn the basics of the Farsi Language quickly!
Reading & Writing Farsi is a self-study guide to the Farsi alphabet for anyone who is just getting started in learning this beautiful language. Author P- Series: Workbook for Self-Study
- Author: Vil, Pegah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0804852898
- Language: English
-
An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
$19.95 Add to cartLittle known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a tw
- Author: Aslan, Reza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065923
- Language: English
-
Rose Water and Orange Blossoms: Fresh & Classic Recipes from My Lebanese Kitchen
$35.00 Add to cartPomegranates and pistachios. Floral waters and cinnamon. Bulgur wheat, lentils, and succulent lamb. These lush flavors of Maureen Abood’s childhood, growing up as a Lebanese-American in Michigan, insp… [more below]
- Author: Abood, Maureen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0762454865
- Language: English
-
Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar
A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islam
- Author: Segal, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: October 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374527970
- Language: English
-
Amduat: The Great Awakening
$35.00 Add to cartThe Egyptian Amduat, “Book of the Hidden Chamber”, is a fascinating text from ancient Egypt that describes the journey of the deceased. It tells of a twelve hour long voyage beyond death through a mys
- Author: Kreikamp, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1914153057
- Language: English
-
Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
$19.94 Add to cartThe history of Ethiopia could also be called the history of humanity. The question is not if this history is well documented, but why it is not thought widely in schools. The time necessary to study t
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0592438848
- Language: English
-
Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way
$18.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind.
“M
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1642860751
- Language: English
-
Freud And The Non-European
$19.95 Add to cartBanned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture eventually became Edward Said’s final book. Freud and the Non-European builds on Said’s abiding interest in the psychoanalyst’s work… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1781681457
- Language: English
-
The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World
$6.94 Add to cartThe Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World
The oldest book in the world is the filled with wisdom quotes and teachings on how one is to conduct ones life and how to treat his fellow man
- Author: Gunn, Battiscombe G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: January 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1684114969
- Language: English
-
The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
$19.00 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of Gates of Fire and Killing Rommel, the thrilling true story of one of the most unlikely and astonishing military victories in history.
June 5, 1967. Israel is surrounded- Author: Pressfield, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1595231196
- Language: English
