Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Why do young Saudis, night after night, joyride and skid cars on Riyadh's avenues? Who are these “drifters” who defy public order and private pro...
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The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010–11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East. Yet, these events have not reshaped...
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City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Award-winning journalist Jim Krane charts the history of Dubai from its earliest days, considers the influence of the family who has ruled it sin...
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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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Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of ...
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Lebanon: A House Divided
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"A beautifully written, often profound account." —Chicago Sun-Times With a new introduction by the author, a seminal study of Lebanon’s past, pre...
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The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born during the Great Revolt of 1936–39, a p...
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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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The Prince Of The Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently complet...
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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 War of 1948: Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Narratives
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The 1948 War is remembered in this special volume, including aspects of Israeli-Jewish memory and historical narratives of 1948 and representatio...
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Ancient Israel: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Israelites, Starting From their Entry into Canaan Until the Jewish Rebellions against the Romans
PaperbackOriginal price $13.57 - Original price $13.57Original price $13.57$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Explore the Captivating History of Ancient IsraelUnlike many other ancient peoples, the culture and beliefs of the Israelites exist in modern soc...
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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 Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a...
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Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid: Prospects for Resolving the Conflict
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This incisive analysis of where Palestinians and Israelis are and the possible avenues to a just and durable peace has been fully updated in the ...
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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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Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nati...
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Descent of Inanna: Annotated and Illustrated
PaperbackOriginal price $17.50 - Original price $17.50Original price $17.50$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This book brings an ancient myth to modern readers. It presents the Descent of Inanna and all of the surrounding myths in easy to understand mode...
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Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the “Arabists” were men and women who spent much of thei...
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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 Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all...
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A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Theologian, philosopher, and political radical, Martin Buber (1878-1965) was actively committed to a fundamental economic and political reconstru...
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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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The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Seventh Million is the first book to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on ...
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