Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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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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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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The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Abdullah Öcalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction on February 1...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal’s account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible shed...
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The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99Original price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago. Its election was described then as 'an earthquake,' and its reverberations are sti...
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The Yellow Wind: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /David Grossman's The Yellow Wind is essential reading for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of Israel today. The Israeli novelist David Gro...
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A History of the Arab Peoples: With a New Afterword / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /“Here at last is a genuinely readable, genuinely responsive history of the Arabs.”—Edward W. Said, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewUpon its publicat...
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Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /For much of her life--like many Westerners--most of what Pamela Olson knew of the Middle East was informed by headlines and stereotypes. But when...
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Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book (Nonfiction) Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Foreign Policy A New York Times ...
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Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /By the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view...
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Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey th...
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Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between...
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The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /An ordinary Gazan's "devastating contemporary war journal" that chronicles his struggle to survive Israel's invasion of Gaza (Michael Ondaatje, a...
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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS ...
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Not...
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Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
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 controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author"A must for an...
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The Abbasid Caliphate: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) has long been recognized as the formative period of Islamic civilization with its various achievem...
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