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Pakistan: A Hard Country
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million p...
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The Silk Road: A New History with Documents / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /The Silk Road is iconic in world history; but what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty...
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Orientalism: A Reader / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A selection of key readings that provide an introduction to the intense 20th century debates around OrientalismIn the period of decolonization th...
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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A vibrant portrait of the talented and entrepreneurial women who defined an era in Cairo. One of the world’s most multicultural cities, twentieth...
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Sofreh: A Contemporary Approach to Classic Persian Cuisine: A Cookbook
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The much-anticipated cookbook--an exquisite collection of Persian recipes--from Sofreh, one of Brooklyn's most acclaimed restaurants. "I got lost i...
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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, ...
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Lausanne Conference 1949
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /This work scrutinises the historic Lausanne Conference of April-September, 1949, one of the rare occasions upon which Israel and the Arab states we...
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent four decades studying and covering the Middle East, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zio...
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Casablanca: My Moroccan Food
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A native Moroccan shares 100 recipes for the vibrant and delicious dishes of her homeland. "A book that is infused with the flavors of Morocco ...
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Moroccan Folktales
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled wi...
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Bad Girls of the Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Women’s transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simu...
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Voices From Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian Women
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Mahnaz Kousha interviewed fifteen Iranian women in Tehran who originally came from cities and towns throughout Iran. The youngest was 38, the eld...
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Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Ocalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdogan's Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /"Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts... I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the peo...
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Israel and Petra
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Home to some of the world’s oldest and most sacred sites – including the historic city of Jerusalem – Israel and the Palestinian Territories is a...
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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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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Istanbul
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Newly revised, updated, and redesigned for 2016. True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Istanbul covers all the city's major sights...
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Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Were they simply bystanders, victims of collateral damage who played a passive role in its history? Furthermore, how have they negotiated their pos...
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Nazis on the Nile: The German Military Advisers in Egypt, 1949-1967
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Using official British records and CIA files released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, Vyvyan Kinross paints a compelling portrait of a co...
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages For centuries, the Crusades have been central to...
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Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey, 1923-1945
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post--Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stres...
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Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this tran...
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American-Iranian Dialogues: From Constitution to White Revolution, C. 1890s-1960s
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Bringing together historians of US foreign relations and scholars of Iranian studies, American-Iranian Dialogues examines the cultural connections ...
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Socio-Historical Roots of Yemen's Collapse
HardcoverOriginal price $119.99 - Original price $119.99Original price $119.99$133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /The book dives into the socio-historical roots of the current 'disintegration' of the Yemeni state, proposing that it is the result of a long proce...
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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigat...
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