Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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ISIS: The State of Terror
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imaginati...
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Contesting Authoritarianism: Labor Challenges to the State in Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Successive authoritarian regimes have maintained tight control over organized labor in Egypt since the 1950s. And yet in 2009, a group of civil s...
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Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /One hundred thousand Palestinians fled to Syria after being expelled from Palestine upon the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Integr...
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Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In this magisterial history of Lebanon, from the end of Ottoman rule to the Hezbollah and Hamas wars of today, acclaimed and fiercely independent...
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The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anch...
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The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to...
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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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The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Does climate change cause conflict? Did it cause the Syrian uprising? Some policymakers and academics have made this claim, but is it true? This ...
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The Aleppo Cookbook: Celebrating the Legendary Cuisine of Syria
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /It is hardly surprising that Aleppo, one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, is also home to one of the world’s most distinguish...
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Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $8.05 - Original price $8.05Original price $8.05$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /From the United Nations to the media, and from academia to international NGOs, the attacks on Israel's legitimacy as the nation-state of the Jewi...
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Afghan Cuisine
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This totally revised latest edition of Afghan Cuisine is a wonderful introduction to cooking Afghan food. The recipes are presented in a very eas...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Authentic Egyptian Cooking: From the Table of Abou El Sid
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Traditionally, Egyptian cooking has been best practiced and enjoyed at home, where generations of unrecorded family recipes have been the sustain...
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Breaking Breads: A New World of Israeli Baking--Flatbreads, Stuffed Breads, Challahs, Cookies, and the Legendary Chocolate Babka
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Named one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The San Francisco Ch...
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Flavors of the Sun: The Sahadi's Guide to Understanding, Buying, and Using Middle Eastern Ingredients
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A comprehensive guide to vibrant Middle Eastern ingredients, with more than 120 recipes that let them shine, from James Beard Award–winning Saha...
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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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