Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Or Did You Ever See The Other Side?
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Internationally acclaimed ekphrastic poet Hedy Habra's most recent collection is luminous and powerful in its exploration of women and art. Or Did ...
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Cyrus The Great
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from ...
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The Middle Ages in 50 Objects
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from t...
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A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred
PaperbackOriginal price $5.99 - Original price $5.99Original price $5.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an international campaign to achieve recognition by the United Nations for an independent Palest...
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A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Nearly two-thirds of the New Testament—including all of the letters of Paul, most of the book of Acts, and the book of Revelation—is set outside ...
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Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the co...
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A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories. Survivors of ...
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A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discover...
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The River War by Winston S. Churchill, History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Churchil,l with his powerful insight, tells the tale of how the war changed the fates of England, Egypt and the Arabian peoples in northeast Afri...
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Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."—Robert Fisk, Th...
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Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In this classic work, now updated, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even th...
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Modern Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day, Modern Iran: A History in Documents brings together primary sources in ...
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The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple, 1119-1312
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The warrior knights of the cross The Knights Templar were one of the most famous Christian military orders of the medieval period. Officially en...
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Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize -- Nonfiction Runner Up The complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Isra...
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The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This is the first serious study of Tamerlane, the great nomad conqueror who rose to power in 1370 on the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led his a...
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Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world—and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastTo...
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Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One of the world's great cuisines lovingly and meticulously presented by an outstanding authority on food. Reveals the variety and flavor of the ...
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A History of Saudi Arabia / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99Original price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This updated edition analyses the challenges, both internal and external, facing Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century. Two new chapters discu...
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Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Follo...
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The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and WWII
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German ar...
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The Pledge
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This is the story of the secret American underground that after World War II helped arm the new state of Istael for its war of independence. It i...
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The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Musli...
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Whose Holy Land?: The Roots of the Conflict Between Jews and Arabs
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This book explains the historical roots of the conflict between Jews and Arabs, which has lost none of its explosiveness to the present day, in a...
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ” —Miami Herald In vivid and graceful pr...
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