Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Zachary Lockman's informed and thoughtful history of European Orientalism and US Middle East studies, the 'clash of civilizations' debate and Ame...
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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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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 Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding nat...
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Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with ext...
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Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /“A compelling account . . . and a reminder that a true peace can be built only on justice.”—Desmond M. Tutu Tending one’s fields, visiting a rela...
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Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /According to the Qur'an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the...
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The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-Jones examines t...
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My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Gaza is the frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and rarely out of the news, this book explores the daily lives of the p...
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Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /'Clear-eyed and illuminating.'Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor'A rich, superbly researched, balanced hist...
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Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Midd...
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The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A provocative rethinking of France's long relationship with the Arab worldTo fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking co...
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A History of the Middle East: Fifth Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The definitive history of the Middle East that provides the historical context to today's headlines - now in its fifth edition"The best overall s...
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The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to ...
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Arab Worlds Beyond the Middle East and North Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Just like people around the world have done for generations, Arab people from the Middle East and North African (MENA) region have immigrated to va...
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The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Is...
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The Imperial School for Tribes: Educating the Provincial Elite in the Late Ottoman Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Founded in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, the Imperial School for Tribes (Asiret Mektebi) was an initiative by Sultan Abdulhamid II to bri...
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Literary Spectacles of Sultanship
HardcoverOriginal price $130.99 - Original price $130.99Original price $130.99$159.99$159.99 - $159.99Current price $159.99| /The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as la...
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Sufi Warrior Saints: Stories of Sufi Jihad from Muslim Hagiography
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book presents a thematic collection of hagiographical stories of Sufi saints, often referred to as friends of Gods. Despite the diverse wealth...
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The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia...
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In the Shade of the Qur'an Vol. 7 (Fi Zilal al-Qur'an): Surah 8 Al-Anfal
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This volume of Sayyid Qutb's tafsir, commentary on the Qur'an, covers Surah 8 Al-Anfal (The Spoils of War). Product DetailsISBN-13: 978086037323...
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Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its re...
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Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb i...
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