Category - History
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The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sancti...
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The Root of Wild Madder: Chasing the History, Mystery, and Lore of the Persian Carpet
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Told in exquisite prose befitting one of the world's loveliest art forms, Brian Murphy eloquently chronicles how carpets embody humanity's endles...
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The Rape of Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $28.87 - Original price $28.87Original price $28.87$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Reprint of 1938 edition. The Rape of Palestine is a scathing indictment of the British administration in Palestine. It is well documented and mak...
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Rifqa
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Rifqa is Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd's ode to his late grandmother, and to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. 'Jerusalem is ours.'Produ...
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Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In this critical analysis, Laetitia Nanquette explores how Iranian literature has functioned and circulated since the 1979 revolution until the pre...
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Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Transnational Culture studies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population wit...
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Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity...
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A Language of One's Own: Literary Arabic, the Palestinians and Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Following the establishment of Israel in 1948, literary Arabic became one of the main representative of Palestinian national identity within Israel...
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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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Rub√°iy√°t
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This exquisite edition of the Rub√°iy√°t features the stunning illustrations of artist Frank Brangwyn, set alongside the timeless poetry of Omar Kh...
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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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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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Humour in Iran: Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature's rich tradition, taking various forms from the coarse and obscene to the su...
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The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did café...
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Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Moroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organi...
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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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Father Takes a Drink and Other Memories of Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Heydar Radjavi's memories of the 1930s and 1940s, when he was growing up in Iran (a country he describes as one that has been "in ambivalent flirta...
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The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist. For four decades, he was a dominant figure in political...
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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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Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes ab...
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Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts...
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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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The Ant's Gift: A Study of the Shahnameh
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran's leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. ...
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