Middle East
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The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present
$29.95 Add to cartThis sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters.
World history began in the Persian Gulf. The anc- Author: Fromherz, Allen James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0520398556
- Language: English
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From Beirut to Jerusalem: (With a New Preface)
$25.00 Add to cart“If you’re only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it.” –Seymour M. Hersh
Winner of the National Book Award A National Bestseller A modern classic of Middle Eastern reportage, now wit- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1250381967
- Language: English
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Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
$40.00 Add to cart‘INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE’ NOAM CHOMSKY
The final work from foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, picking up the story in the Middle East where his internationall
- Author: Fisk, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0007255489
- Language: English
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The Holy Land at War: A Journey Through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza
$15.99 Add to cartIn this revealing journey through Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza itself, longtime journalist Mark Patinkin explores one of the world’s most divisive conflicts, capturing the stories of both sides in
- Author: Patinkin, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: August 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990887213
- Language: English
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Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict
$29.99 Add to cartAn award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what wa… [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Yardena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 145494921X
- Language: English
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The Academy
$18.99 Add to cartWhen high school dropout Ashur Yonan receives an unexpected invitation to join a shadowy organization known as the Academy, he is plunged into an ancient conspiracy that threatens the entire world.
As- Author: Bet-David, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888455593
- Language: English
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The Lion House: The Coming of a King
$19.00 Add to cart“Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds.” –Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Narra- Author: Bellaigue, Christopher de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872480
- Language: English
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The Sea People: A Captivating Guide to the Seafarers Who Invaded Ancient Egypt, Eastern Anatolia, the Hittite Empire, Palestine, Syria
$23.99 Add to cartThe Sea People were a menace to eastern Mediterranean society and contributed to the destruction of the Late Bronze Age. But what do we really know about them?
It is difficult to know the Sea People in
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168934
- Language: English
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An Accidental Archaeologist
$30.00 Add to cartThis personal and professional memoir recounts the author’s formative years and the family influences that propelled him forward. The experience of anti-Semitism in grammar school and college played a… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Eric M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1666743526
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$28.00 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1401301916
- Language: English
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Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior
$38.00 Add to cartFrom leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, “American Grit” feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL’s Call to a Nation, Rorke Denver, the bestselling account of how he helped create … [more below]
- Author: Denver, Rorke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1401324797
- Language: English
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The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
$22.00 Add to cart“Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time … [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1439155186
- Language: English
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A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
$22.65 Read moreWithout the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searche
- Series: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture
- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 9633863996
- Language: English
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The Places in Between
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
This acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is “stupendous…an instant travel classic” (Entertainment Weekly).In J… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0156031566
- Language: English
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Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men
$14.99 Add to cart“The perfect Christmas gift for anyone interested in the historical background behind the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.” — Robert J. Hutchinson, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible, … [more below]
- Author: Longenecker, Dwight
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1684512573
- Language: English
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R)… [more below]- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1984853856
- Language: English
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
$42.99 Add to cartOne Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when Britain’s promise to both Jews and Arabs that they wou
- Author: Segev, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0805065873
- Language: English
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Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
$10.99 Add to cart“When a war ends it does not go away,” my mother says.”It hides inside us . . . Just forget!”
In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ra
But I do not want to do what Mother says . . . I want to remember.- Author: Barakat, Ibtisam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1250097185
- Language: English
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It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel
$9.99 Add to cartZomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block…for the fourth time.
California’s Newport Beach is her family’s latest perch, and she’s determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start
- Author: Dumas, Firoozeh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 132874096X
- Language: English
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Spies of No Country: Israel’s Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad
$21.99 Add to cart“Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing.” —The New York Times Book Review
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including dup- Author: Friedman, Matti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1643750437
- Language: English
