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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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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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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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We Are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard
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 collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban, to be published for the firs...
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Hear Us Speak: Letters from Arab Women
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /IF ARAB WOMEN WERE GIVEN A VOICE, WHAT STORY WOULD THEY TELL? To be a woman is a gift. But that gift does not come without challenges. Historicall...
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Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The untold story of a trailblazing dynasty of royal women who ruled the Middle East and how they persevered through instability and seize greater p...
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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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One Summer in My Life
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /How do you chronicle a life? Manijeh Badiozamani tells of her life in a series of short stories that offer glimpses of a life lived in two cultures...
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /A Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.My mother, Meher...
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.My mother, Meher...
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Yasmeena's Choice: A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /This is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Yasmeena's ...
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Tehran to Malibu: My Journey in Pursuit of Home
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An inspiring autobiography of the hardships and joys of a Christian girl born in a Muslim country. Of losing a parent at a young age, having wealth...
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When I Said No to "gods"
HardcoverOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Born in Iran, Susan Allaie was forced into an arranged marriage, driven by the ideals of religious fundamentalism and a culture that afforded her n...
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When I Said No to "gods"
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Born in Iran, Susan Allaie was forced into an arranged marriage, driven by the ideals of religious fundamentalism and a culture that afforded her n...
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From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Traditional Nonfiction 2021 Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards Jacqueline Saper, nam...
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In the Time of Our History: A Novel of Riveting and Evocative Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Beautifully written. . . . I’m still thinking about the women who inhabited these pages, the choices they made, and the love between them.” –Lis...
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Dear World: A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A story of love and courage amid brutality and terror, this is the testimony of a child who has endured the unthinkable.” —J.K. Rowling “I’m ve...
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly ...
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The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society: Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Indelible linked stories centred around Azurée, a young Arab woman living in the echoes of her ancestors' voices. Masterfully tracing the deep root...
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Keeping the Dream Alive: My Quest for Peace and Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In 1969, Israeli soldiers burst into Terry Ahwal's home while she and her family were eating breakfast. More than fifty years later, she still vivi...
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Shifting Sands of Saudi
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"As she boarded the flight to Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saakshi could almost hear her heart thumping outside her body. This was her first tr...
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No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$80.99$80.99 - $80.99Current price $80.99| /For the sixty thousand German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and found refuge in Mandatory Palestine between 1933 and 1940, migration meant radical ...
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The Complete Persepolis: 20th Anniversary Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - Persepolis is a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most beloved graphic novels of all time. For the ...
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The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages: On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty
HardcoverOriginal price $152.99 - Original price $152.99Original price $152.99$185.99$185.99 - $185.99Current price $185.99| /The Unknown History of Jewish Women-On Learning and Illiteracy: On Slavery and Liberty is a comprehensive study on the history of Jewish women, whi...
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