Category - Art
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A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discover...
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Egypt. People, Gods, Pharaohs
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, th...
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The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter: From Sacred Scrolls to Graffiti
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A celebration of the beauty of the Hebrew aleph-bet from sacred scrolls to graffiti. The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter is unique: there are many art ...
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Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World
HardcoverOriginal price $165.00 - Original price $165.00Original price $165.00$189.99$189.99 - $189.99Current price $189.99| /This volume offers an overview of the state of the field, and shows the importance of Islamic inscriptions for disciplines such as art history, his...
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An anthology of Abu Hamdan's disquieting audio-essay monologues on the soundscape of political lifeThis volume compiles transcripts from performanc...
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Future Perfect: Catastrophe and Redemption in the Contemporary
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Cultural and artistic practitioners from the UAE reflect on our collective and individual roles in building a better futureThis publication gathers...
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The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Since coming to power, President Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) have focused on narrating their vision of a 'New Turkey' - an ideal ...
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The Holy Land: Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia; v.3-4 [1855-1860]
HardcoverOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /David Roberts, a Scottish painter, traveled to the Middle East in the mid-19th century and produced some of the most stunning and accurate depictio...
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Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500-1639
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Explores the Safavid and Ottoman empires through the lens of gifts. When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Irani...
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Translation and Transgression in the Art of Shirin Neshat
HardcoverOriginal price $64.95 - Original price $64.95Original price $64.95$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Thirty years after the debut of her photo-portraits, this book chronicles the early career of Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat. In its first t...
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Parviz Tanavoli: Poets, Locks, Cages
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The most significant English-language publication to date on a prominent Iranian sculptor. Born in Tehran and based in Vancouver, Parviz Tanavoli ...
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Profound Patterns
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This beautiful book showcases artwork produced by people across the globe from their bedrooms and kitchens as part of online art classes during loc...
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Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00Original price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00Current price $67.99$67.99 - $67.99Current price $67.99| /The spirit of feasting in Islamic lands as seen in art and material cultureThis catalog represents the first occasion that the burgeoning knowledge...
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The Mediation of Ornament
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objects Based on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many ...
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The Artist and the Shah
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /To the task of chronicling the waning years of Persia's Qajar court, Dust-Ali Khan "Mo ayyer al-Mamalek" (1876-1966) brought matchless gifts. On hi...
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Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The compelling life story of Armenian ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work changed the face of Jerusalem--and a granddaughter's search for his ...
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Rumi: A Life in Pictures
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Picturing the life story of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, a premier Muslim mystic and the original Whirling Dervish, the images in three extant manuscripts of...
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A Lifelong Love Affair: From Ramallah to New Haven and the Artistry of Persian Rugs
HardcoverOriginal price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Oh, antique rugs, how great thou art.From his first glimpse of the brightly colored rugs hanging on a neighbor's balcony in his hometown of Ramalla...
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Women's War Stories: The Lebanese Civil War, Women's Labor, and the Creative Arts
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Women have consistently been left out of the official writing of Lebanese history, and nowhere is this more obvious than in writing on the Lebanese...
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In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists After Darwish
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last...
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We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /While the occupation of Iraq and its aftermath has received media and political attention, we know very little about the everyday lives of Iraqis. ...
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Generations of Dissent: Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic...
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Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt Between the Islamic and the Contemporary
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman rev...
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Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00Original price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00Current price $95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Ferdowsi's classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous histor...
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