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Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Palestinian youth and the fight for their village Silwan is a Palestinian village located just outside the ancient walls of the Old City of Jerus...
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In Tangier
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The sights and sounds of 70's Tangier are brought vividly to life, as are the larger-than-life characters of extraordinary men, through ordinary ev...
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1001 Days: Memoirs of an Empress
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781735560601 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Vanishing Pictures Press Publication Date: 11-16-2021 Pages: 176 Product Dim...
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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST“Extraordinary … A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum … Highly readable and evoca...
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It's Not What You Think: An American Woman in Saudi Arabia
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /From the author of Threading My Prayer Rug, an eye-opening view of life in Saudi Arabia.It’s Not What You Think is a wry, incisive account of wor...
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When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family's Forgotten History
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPRThe stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose ...
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Hakim's Odyssey: Book 2: From Turkey to Greece
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What choices would you make to reunite your family?“You know, Haidi, we’re going on a trip. A really big trip to find our way to Mama.”In exile a...
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And Here I Am
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A bitter sweet, dark political comedy based on one man's true story and his odyssey in search for identity, And Here I Am is an epic voyage of iden...
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On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist beautifully outlines . . . what it means to seek the truth. It gave me a new faith in the power of ...
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, E...
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Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Praise for Coming Together, Coming Apart""Interesting conversation is Israel's most ingratiating commodity, and this is an especially interesting...
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Fear No Evil
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us—which makes this account of his arrest on political ground...
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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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Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Pales...
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Reconstructing Rural Egypt: Ahmed Hussein and the History of Egyptian Development
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Johnson's book provides the rich and untold story of the architect behind Egypt's inspired and highly successful social reform policies. The Rura...
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Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Examining late twentieth-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this essay collection explores the ways in...
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The Secret Gate: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The incredible true story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan--and how a brave Afghan mother...
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Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. "Stories li...
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And the Rest Is History: Tales of Hostages, Arms Dealers, Dirty Tricks, and Spies
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Foreword by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center A real-life adventure story told by a New York Times bestselling author ...
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Dis/Placed
HardcoverOriginal price $48.00Original price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00Current price $42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Photographer Ara Oshagan and author Krikor Beledian grew up in Beirut's Armenian communities formed by refugees and survivors of genocide. They cam...
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A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. "An essential insider account o...
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A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Sharply, subtly, and very movingly, Masud thinks with places, seeking as she does to find a way back into, and then out of, the traumas of her ea...
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When Magic Failed: A Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught Between East and West
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the '50s an...
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