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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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Israel's Death Hierarchy: Casualty Aversion in a Militarized Democracy
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /2012 Winner of the Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel Studies, presented by the Association for Israel StudiesWhose life is worth more?Tha...
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Armies of Arabia: Military Politics and Effectiveness in the Gulf
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Armies of Arabia is the first comprehensive analysis of the Gulf monarchies' armed forces, including their political, social, and economic characte...
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New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the Uae and Qatar
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /In the last decade, rulers in Gulf regimes have aspired to greater strategic autonomy and distance from the West. Coined the "Gulf moment" by local...
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Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations. Here, Maksudyan succeeds in making...
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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine Israel's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a te...
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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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The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpe...
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Making the Public Service Millennial: Generational Diversity in Public Service
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics....
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From Black Gold to Frozen Gas: How Qatar Became an Energy Superpower
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Today, Qatar is among the world's wealthiest countries. Its rich hydrocarbon resources have transformed this small Gulf state into an energy powerh...
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Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden's Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A NATIONAL BESTSELLER This explosive book is the definitive account of the Biden administration's most disgraceful hour--and the chaos it unleash...
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Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime that became central to the lives of displaced people arou...
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The Last Days of the Afghan Republic: A Doomed Evacuation Twenty Years in the Making
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Part memoir and part historical account, The Last Days of the Afghan Republic tells the story of four Afghans--how the evacuation forced them from ...
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Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /What wasn't learned from a U.S. intervention that succeededBruce Riedel's new book tells the now-forgotten story (forgotten, that is, in the United...
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Arab Worlds Beyond the Middle East and North Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Just like people around the world have done for generations, Arab people from the Middle East and North African (MENA) region have immigrated to va...
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Civil-Military Relations in the Modern Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Civil-Military Relations in the Modern Middle East explores the political and economic interactions between civilians and the armed forces in the p...
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Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil: Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This volume explores the ways petroleum as an industry and substance has moulded the social, cultural and artistic life of the Middle East. Rather ...
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Why Islamists Go Green
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /From North Africa to Indonesia, Muslim populations have struggled to cope with the new environmental realities. However, in the era of globalisatio...
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Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making Home in Dubai
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai ...
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The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won“The Daughters of Kobani is an unforgettable...
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