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A History of Algeria
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an exp...
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Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world and United States has been fraught with tension and resentment. What began in the n...
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Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David. On ...
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In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In just over a hundred years—from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750—the followers of the Prophet ...
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Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The 1967 Arab–Israeli War rocketed the question of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of American newspapers. Black Power activists saw Pa...
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Modern Algeria, Second Edition: The Origins and Development of a Nation / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Praise for the first edition:"[E]ssential reading for Maghreb specialists as well as for anyone interested in issues of nation-building and polit...
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Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This book examines the role of Muslim communities in the emergence of connections and mobilities across the Indian Ocean World from a longue durée...
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A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00Current price $53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known state Archaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chroniclin...
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World History, Volume 2: from 1400 (hardcover, full color)
HardcoverOriginal price $79.99 - Original price $79.99Original price $79.99$82.99$82.99 - $82.99Current price $82.99| /Color print.World History, Volume 2: from 1400 is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course from 1400 offered at both two-...
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World History, Volume 2: from 1400 (paperback, b&w)
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Black & white print.World History, Volume 2: from 1400 is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course from 1400 offered ...
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Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /2023 Reprint of the 1929 U.S. Edition. Illustrated Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Soft...
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Historical Dictionary of Egypt
HardcoverOriginal price $270.00 - Original price $270.00Original price $270.00$319.99$319.99 - $319.99Current price $319.99| /Egypt is the world’s oldest continuous country, with a recorded past of over 6,000 years. Often invaded, conquered, and occupied by foreign armie...
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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR "Masterly and brilliant"—Simon Sebag Montefiore "A book of vast scope and stunning insight."—Anthony Satt...
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Overland To Cairo By Any Means
PaperbackOriginal price $17.49 - Original price $17.49Original price $17.49$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /On January 17th, 1982 I received an urgent telegram from my brother, who was a teacher trainer for Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO) in ...
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Overland To Cairo By Any Means
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /On January 17th, 1982 I received an urgent telegram from my brother, who was a teacher trainer for Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO) in ...
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Murder in Marrakesh: Émile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure
HardcoverOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /"In Morocco, nobody dies without a reason." --Susan Gilson Miller, Harvard UniversityIn the years leading up to World War I, the Great Powers of Eu...
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The Arabs: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and th...
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Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian: Colonial Experiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Harar
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the ...
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The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz's nove...
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they ...
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The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volume One: A Vision of Heaven and Hell
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose...
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The Epistle of Forgiveness, Volume Two: Or, a Pardon to Enter the Garden: Hypocrites, Heretics, and Other Sinners
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose...
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Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Subaltern History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Subaltern studies, the study of non-elite or underrepresented people, have revolutionized the writing of Middle Eastern history. Subversives and ...
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South Sudan's Fateful Struggle: Building Peace in a State of War
HardcoverOriginal price $83.00 - Original price $83.00Original price $83.00$99.99$99.99 - $99.99Current price $99.99| /The Comprehensive Peace Agreement marked the end of Sudan's second civil war between the North and South. But in creating an autonomous southern re...
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