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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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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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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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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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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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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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Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This lyrical hybrid memoir revisits a lifetime's worth of personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illness--a moving accou...
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Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A raw and courageous memoir of the 1948 war and its aftermath and searing personal journey to uncover the suppressed traumas, facts, and myths that...
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Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The “astonishing and deeply poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir of one man’s search for a beloved family friend explores the depth of Iranian ...
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, ta...
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Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Osama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it...
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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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The Fifth ACT: America's End in Afghanistan
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this...
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Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular per...
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Strangers When We Met: A Century of American Community in Kuwait
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /This history, twenty years in the research and writing, relates the story of Americans living in Kuwait, beginning with the establishment of the Am...
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Under the Abaya
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A convergence of factors led me to Saudi Arabia: Professional calling, wanderlust, and race fatigue. In my truth, I went to Saudi Arabia to borrow ...
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Under the Abaya
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A convergence of factors led me to Saudi Arabia: Professional calling, wanderlust, and race fatigue. In my truth, I went to Saudi Arabia to borrow ...
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Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human s...
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Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human s...
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My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality
PaperbackOriginal price $16.50 - Original price $16.50Original price $16.50$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality is Dr. Rachel Hajar's memoir of her remarkable life in the heart of Arab-Islamic culture and society.Rac...
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz...
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Sweet Love: Classic Baking with a Middle Eastern Accent.
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Sweet Love is a compilation of classic desserts handed down from one generation to the next. It is the way Iman's family connect, sharing and makin...
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Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-...
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My Road from Damascus: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma." -- STARRED review, Kirkus Reviews An extraordinary account of survival in Syri...
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