Middle East
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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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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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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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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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Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises
$32.99 Add to cartBy drawing upon previously unpublished transcripts of his telephone conversations during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the last days of the Vietnam War (1975), Henry Kissinger reveals what goes on beh… [more below]
- Author: Kissinger, Henry a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: July 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0743249119
- Language: English
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Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
$11.99 Add to cartIn an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different.Buran cannot — Buran will not-sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and ea
- Author: Cohen, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 19 1994
- ISBN10: 0688135633
- Language: English
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The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron
$42.00 Add to cartThe Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago. Its election was described then as ‘an earthquake, ‘ and its reverberations are still with us. How then did the Right rise to power? What… [more below]
- Author: Shindler, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 30 2015
- ISBN10: 052115166X
- Language: English
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
$32.00 Add to cartThe “fascinating . . . lively” story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times).
In Empress of the East, historian Les- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0465032516
- Language: English
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City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa
$30.99 Add to cartThe millennia-old port of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, was once known as the Bride of Palestine, one of the truly cosmopolitan cities of the Mediterranean. There Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived, w… [more below]
- Author: LeBor, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329844
- Language: English
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757546
- Language: English
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Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror
$20.00 Add to cartDuring the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, Jeffrey Goldberg – an American Jew – served as a guard at the largest prison camp in Israel. One of his prisoners was Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. … [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0375726705
- Language: English
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Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
$24.99 Add to cartThe definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David.
On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Pa- Author: David, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0316245399
- Language: English
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The Secret History
$17.00 Add to cartA trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire’s official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor’s reign. Yet… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Procopius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0140455280
- Language: English
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Whose Holy Land?: The Roots of the Conflict Between Jews and Arabs
$32.99 Add to cartHoly Land? Israel? Palestine?.- RELIGIOSITY AND POLITICS.- The Pious, the Zealous and a “Dead” God.- Fundamentalism – A Shield for the Culture?.- Is Zionism Blasphemy?.- Zionism in the Quran?.- THE HO… [more below]
- Author: Wolffsohn, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 16 2021
- ISBN10: 3030742857
- Language: English
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Los Reyes de Israel y Judá: Una guÃa fascinante del antiguo reino judÃo de David y Salomón, la monarquÃa dividida y las conquistas asirias y babil
$25.99 Add to cartSi desea descubrir la fascinante historia de los reyes de Israel y Judá siga leyendo…
La historia de los antiguos reinos de Israel y Judá y sus reyes es una historia de héroes y villanos épicos.
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: January 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637161379
- Language: Spanish
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Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, The Fall of Constantinople, and the Life of Suleiman t
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then keep reading…
Three captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the R
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647482534
- Language: English
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Lore of Light, Volume 3
$25.00 Add to cartIn a narration of Imam Ahmad, Abu Dharr asked Prophet Muhammad, “O Messenger of Allah, how many are the prophets?” He replied, “120,000 and between their number are 315 messengers.” The Holy Quran men
- Author: Adil, Hajjah Amina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 19 2019
- ISBN10: 193040963X
- Language: English
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Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
$29.95 Add to cartIn July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary general of the “Party of God,” burst into the spotlight of the West… [more below]
- Author: Nasrallah, Sayyed Hassan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844671534
- Language: English
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Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State
$32.99 Add to cartIn this controversial exploration of the early history of Islam, archaeologist Yehuda D. Nevo and researcher Judith Koren present a revolutionary theory of the origins and development of the Islamic s… [more below]
- Series: Islamic Studies
- Author: Nevo, Yehuda D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 470
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1591020832
- Language: English
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Life, Death, and Community in Cairo’s City of the Dead
$12.95 Add to cartTHE CITY OF THE DEAD is a mysterious area of Cairo that many Egyptians are aware of but not intimately connected too. This book provides a historical evolution of a residential cemetery more than four
- Author: Ansah, Hassan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: November 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1450267009
- Language: English
