Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Stories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their everyday lives in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and...
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This unique, absorbing biography of Jerusalem brings to light its overlooked histories and diverse contemporary voices.In Jerusalem, what you see...
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Sylvia Rafael: The Life and Death of a Mossad Spy
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /"There is a lack of quiet in Sylvia that craves for action.... She knows that she is special and that she possesses unusual and varied abilities....
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Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq (ca. 3000–500 B...
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Gallipoli
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this def...
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Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, American Grit feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to a Nation, Rorke Den...
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Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An estimated 3,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel currently volunteer to serve in the Israeli military, a force fighting other Palestinians just ...
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Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple:...
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An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What is a country? Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton brings to life the origins and histories of 50 states that, la...
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Hanukkah - The Real Story
HardcoverOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Hanukkah - the real story describes the Jew's guerrilla war for national liberation and religious freedom. The Maccabees set up a free society in...
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The Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire and Its Control Over Much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Explore the Captivating History of the Ottoman Empire! The Ottoman world was nothing like an exotic fairytale featuring tyrant sultans, mean pash...
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Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle For Palestine
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99Original price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In June 2007 civil war broke out in the Gaza Strip between two rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah. Western peace efforts in the region a...
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The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun's desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting und...
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Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin-Anwar Sadat Personal Correspondence
HardcoverOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The letters, together with other material including transcripts of speeches, press conferences, interviews, and official documents, reveal the pe...
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The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Prime Ministers is the first and only insider account of Israeli politics from the founding of the Jewish State to the near-present day. It r...
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Return to Zion: The History of Modern Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The history of modern Israel is a story of ambition, violence, and survival. Return to Zion traces how a scattered and stateless people reconstit...
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Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide
HardcoverOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate ...
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The Nabataeans
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Every year thousands of tourists visit the spectacular city of Petra, the ancient capital of the Nabataean Empire. Here massive monuments have be...
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The Jewish State
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Founder of modern Zionism clearly, forcefully advocates creation of a Jewish homeland. Extremely influential. Product DetailsISBN-13: 978956291...
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In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Isra...
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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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Eat, Habibi, Eat!: Fresh Recipes for Modern Egyptian Cooking
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /TASTE CANADA AWARDS GOLD WINNER100 recipes to celebrate the bold flavors, bright colors, and fresh tastes of the Middle East.In Arabic, "habibi" ...
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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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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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