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Visions from Abroad: Historical and Contemporary Representations of Arabia
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00Original price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00Current price $64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /Arabia, with its holy cities in Hejaz and its Bedouin-populated deserts, holds a special place in the Western imaginary. Visions from Abroad explor...
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Wael Shawky
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Wael Shawky (born 1971) is one of the most fascinating contemporary Arab artists. He investigates history, its interpretations and the ways in whic...
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Paul Mogensen & Steven Parrino
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Published in conjunction with an exhibition at OV Project in Brussels, this catalog brings together paintings by two influential modern American pa...
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Painting the Middle East
HardcoverOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /"We each paint our lives and frame our experiences of the world in a distinctive way for reasons that we cannot always understand," writes Ann Ke...
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Building Modern Egypt: Boxed Set
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00Original price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00Current price $91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /This handsome boxed set brings together five delightfully individual books, each beautifully illustrated with archival images and postcards, on som...
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Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem: An Artist's Life
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /A pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a profess...
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Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem: An Artist's Life
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a profess...
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Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region...
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Mosques: Splendors of Islam
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00Original price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00Current price $64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /FOREWORD INDIES Book of the Year Awards -- 2017 GOLD Winner for Architecture One of the most important and authoritative books to celebrate mosque ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Islamic Art: Architecture, Painting, Calligraphy, Ceramics, Glass, Carpets
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This gorgeous survey of art from the Islamic world covers three continents and fourteen centuries.From its birth in the seventh century through m...
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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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Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Marking the one hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s magnificent tomb, its incredible treasures are revealed as never before. ...
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Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Secret Masterpieces
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Uncover the artistic masterworks hidden across New York City in this charmingly illustrated exploration of one of the world's greatest creative t...
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Every Person in New York
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Jason Polan is on a mission to draw every person in New York, from cab drivers to celebrities. He draws people eating at Taco Bell, admiring pain...
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The Dolphins of Knossos: Volume 3
HardcoverOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /BLANK - 128 PAGES This journal is part of a series featuring art by renowned artist Josh Baum from the book Malkah's Notebook: A Journey into the M...
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Turkish Art and Architecture: From the Seljuks to the Ottomans
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Illustrated with some 250 attractive and well-chosen color photographs, Turkish Art and Architecture is fascinating reading for anyone with an inte...
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