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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 completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah,... (read more)
 
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
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With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country's elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and... (read more)
 
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In How Israel Lost Richard Ben Cramer analyzes the four questions that have bedeviled Israel and Palestine for almost forty years: I. Why do we care about Israel? II. Why dont the Palestinians have a state? III. What is a Jewish state? IV. Why is there... (read more)
 
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Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
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The Road to Oxiana
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In 1933 the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana -the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between... (read more)
 
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Child in Jerusalem (Middle East Studies)
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Ashbee was six years old when her family sailed from England to Palestine at the beginning of the British mandate, and remembers her experiences and observations as an adjunct member of the colonial establishment. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc... (read more)
 
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