The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart


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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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Allah's Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons
by Al Ventner


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It is called the "Club of Nine," the exclusive group of nations that have detonated nuclear weapons. Apart from the major powers, its membership also includes, India, Pakistan, and Israel. More recently, its membership was blighted by North Korea. Based... (read more)

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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer




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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It tells the story of the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war... (read more)

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Saddam: King of Terror
by Con Coughlin


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Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-338) and index.... (read more)

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House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
by Craig Unger


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Newsbreaking and controversial — an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud and explains its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national security... (read more)

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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
by Afschineh Latifi


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At the age of ten, a young Iranian girl witnesses the horror of her father's execution and escapes the revolution with her sister. Growing up in Tehran in the 1970s, Afschineh Latifi and her sister and two brothers enjoyed a life of luxury and privilege.... (read more)

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Ottoman Centuries
by Lord Kinross


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Chapter One Legend envelops the early history of the ottoman dynasty. Traditionally its founder was a small tribal chieftain named Ertoghrul, who, as he migrated across Asia Minor with a band of some four hundred horsemen, came upon a battle between two... (read more)

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The Road to Oxiana
by Robert Byron


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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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Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation
by Steven Charle Caton


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A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle East In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in... (read more)

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Turkish Reflections
by Mary Lee Settle


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After a twenty-year absence, Mary Lee Settle returns to the land she calls the happiest home she has ever known. A land of intersecting continents, cultures, and contradictions, Turkey beckons her on a cross-country journey, in search of the country's... (read more)

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Revenge: A Story of Hope
by Laura Blumenfeld




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"Revenge helps answer the question, who are you? You are what you're willing to avenge," Laura Blumenfeld explained to Salon.com. A decade after her father, an American rabbi visiting Jerusalem, was shot and almost killed, Blumenfeld... (read more)

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Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
by Queen Noor


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A national best-seller on its first publication in 2003, Leap of Faith is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. In it, Queen Noor of Jordan provides a compelling portrait of her late husband King Hussein and... (read more)

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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis


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For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and... (read more)

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Persian Girls: A Memoir
by Nahid Rachlin


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For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept... (read more)

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How Israel Lost: The Four Questions
by Richard Ben Cramer


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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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Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance (Council on Foreign Relations Book)
by Warren Bass


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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-314) and index.... (read more)

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Burned Alive: A Survivor of an "Honor Killing" Speaks Out
by Souad


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Souad was a 17-year-old woman living in a small village in Jordan when she made the mistake of falling in love--an event that would lead to unspeakable acts of violence and a lifetime of exile from her homeland. Desperate to leave her abusive childhood... (read more)

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Bedouin of Northern Arabia: The Traditions of Al Dhafir
by Bruce Ingham


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This is an authentic and absorbing account of the history and traditional way of life of the Al-Dhafir bedouins of North-Eastern Arabia, based on a study of their traditions, Arabic historical annals and the reports of western travellers over the past... (read more)

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