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Head of the Mossad: In Pursuit of a Safe and Secure Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Shabtai Shavit, director of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996, is one of the most influential leaders to shape the recent history of the State of Isra...
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The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish com...
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
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 Notable Book of 2016 One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2016, Publishers Weekly One of the Best Books of 2016, NPRWinner of the...
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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings u...
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The Crusades: An Epitome
PaperbackOriginal price $12.50 - Original price $12.50Original price $12.50$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This sweeping yet succinct new survey introduces readers to the history of the crusades from the eleventh to the twenty-first century. By synthes...
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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political...
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Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Two structuring concepts have predominated in discussions concerning how Middle Eastern men enact their identity culturally: domination and patri...
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Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Operation Protective Edge, Israel's seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million dis...
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The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sancti...
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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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Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the per...
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The Process: 1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Meet your Enemy Number One," a nervous Norwegian diplomat said to Uri Savir, the young director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, as he intr...
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Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This book offers chapters written by Chomsky just before the 2000 Intifada and up through October 2002, when 9-11 and a prospective military camp...
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Josephus: The Complete Works
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /You haven't completed your biblical understanding until you've traveled back to the lands where it all took place. Now you can hear the sounds an...
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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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The Root of Wild Madder: Chasing the History, Mystery, and Lore of the Persian Carpet
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Told in exquisite prose befitting one of the world's loveliest art forms, Brian Murphy eloquently chronicles how carpets embody humanity's endles...
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ZIONISM, The Real Enemy of the Jews: The False Messiah
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The False Messiah is Volume I of a monumental history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, by a seasoned report...
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Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Islamic supremacism, European cultural disaggregation, American vacillation, and Israeli timidity and confusion. These are the main social contex...
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The Memoirs of God: History, Memory, and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This insightful work examines the variety of ways that collective memory, oral tradition, history, and history writing intersect. Integral to all...
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Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /By drawing upon previously unpublished transcripts of his telephone conversations during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the last days of the Vietn...
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The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Can a theological case be made from Scripture that Israel still has a claim to the Promised Land? Christian Zionism is often seen as the offsprin...
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A Fez Of The Heart: Travels around Turkey in Search of a Hat
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents’ attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the qui...
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Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Hatina (Middle Eastern history, Tel Aviv U., Israel) traces the history of the Palestinian Jihad movement from its origins in 1981, in Gaza up to...
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Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /As the Middle East peace process disintegrates and the second Palestinian Intifada begins, Wendy Pearlman, a young Jewish woman from the American...
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