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About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-c...
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Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /While the outcomes of the tumultuous uprisings that continue to transfix the Arab world remain uncertain, the root causes of rebellion persist. D...
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Everybody's War: The Politics of Aid in the Syria Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The Syrian crisis is one of the most serious humanitarian disasters in recent history. Yet the widely reported numbers--more than 6 million displac...
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The History of Water in the Land Once Called Palestine: Scarcity, Conflict and Loss in Middle East Water Resources
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation. In this, the ...
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Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early-Modern Capitalism (1600-1800)
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Little has been written about the economic history of Egypt prior to its incorporation into the European capitalist economy. While historians have ...
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The Lost Orchard: The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850-1950
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948, devastated Palestinian lives and shattered Palestinian society, culture, and economy. It also nipped i...
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Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain—went from b...
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Egypt - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started i...
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A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...
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Diamonds and War: State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have en...
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The Power of Perceptions in the Middle East: A Study of Contradictory Political and Economic Interests
PaperbackOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /This book analyzes conflicting political views and narratives held by different forces, both at the local and regional levels in the Middle East. B...
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Yogurt & Whey: Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /One of Eater's 12 Best Cookbooks of Spring 2023. A collection of recipes reflecting a life affected by immigration, community, adaptation, and ex...
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from t...
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State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt
HardcoverOriginal price $69.95 - Original price $69.95Original price $69.95$85.99$85.99 - $85.99Current price $85.99| /An alternative reading of the relationship between the state and smallholder peasants in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt This book examines the rural ...
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The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and e...
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Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History Volume 20
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was t...
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Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation
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 incisive exploration of women and work in Egypt's textile industry, showing how globalization's promise of liberation instead set the stage for ...
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If That's Leading, I'm In: Women Redefining Leadership
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"We all know what leadership is. What we don't know is why so many women are turned off by the whole idea of doing it. Because leadership has gener...
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States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /The final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the period of the French mandate in Syria and Lebanon coincided with a critical period of transformatio...
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Transportation & Technology in iran, 1800-1940
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /Only 100 years ago the main means of transportation in Iran was by quadruped. Transportation & Technology in Iran, 1800-1940, by renowned Iran...
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Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed...
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Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed...
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Water Security for Palestinians and Israelis: Towards a New Cooperation in Middle East Water Resources
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation. In this, the ...
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Economy, Society & Culture in Contemporary Yemen
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /First published in 1985, Economy, Society & Culture in Contemporary Yemen was written to present a wealth of research and thinking that was new...
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