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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal," Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East throughwars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan Synopsis Brian Keenan's release from captivity was the first ray of hope for those hostages held in the Middle East. He describes the plight of his fellow hostages with first-hand knowledge. The language he uses reflects his past efforts as a poet in describing... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W Said Publisher Comments In this landmark work, for which he has written a new Introduction, one of our foremost public thinkers examines to origins and repercussions of the media's monolithic images of Islam. Combining political commentary with literary criticism, Edward Said... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments In this timely and important book, new in paperback, Tariq Ali is lucid, eloquent, literary and painfully honest as he dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter by Thomas L Friedman Publisher Comments Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn Mckay Brodie Publisher Comments Starting in a hollowed log of wood--some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!" So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road to Democracy in Iran (Boston Review Books) by Akbar Ganji Publisher Comments Akbar Ganji, called by some Iran's most famous dissident, was a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. But, troubled by the regime's repressive nature, he became an investigative journalist in the 1990s, writing for Iran's pro-democracy... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.25 Used - Hardcover
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Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing Publisher Comments With a love of travel, Alison Wearing invites us to journey with her to Iran--a country that few Westerners have a chance to see. Traveling with a male friend, in the guise of a couple on their honeymoon, Wearing set out on her own at every available... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments For many 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, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier,... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Blood of Abraham: Insights Into the Middle East by Jimmy Carter Synopsis In a new edition of this national bestseller, Carter demystifies the history of each of the nations that comprise the Middle East, the reasons for their different goals, and the nature of their prime concerns--and provides an enlightened and reconciling... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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This Heated Place: Encounters in the Promised Land by Deborah Campbell Publisher Comments A freelance writer who once lived in Israel delivers a compelling account of travel in war-torn Israel, with personal insights into the region's complex, bloody struggles.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret History of the Iraq War by Yossef Bodansky Publisher Comments In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq. Eight months after the president declared an end to major... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.98 Used - Hardcover
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Israel/Palestine: How to End the 1948 War (Seven Stories' Open Media) by Tanya Reinhart Publisher Comments In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel’s new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Banking on Baghdad by Edwin Black Publisher Comments In Banking on Baghdad, New York Times and international bestselling author Edwin Black chronicles the dramatic and tragic history of a land long the center of world commerce and conflict. Tracing the involvement of Western governments and militaries, as... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Iranians by Sandra Mackey Publisher Comments The Iranians explores Iran in the context of its old and complex culture, for throughout its history Iran has struggled with two warring identities-one evolving from the values, social organization, and arts of ancient Persia, the other from Islam. By... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran by Afschineh Latifi Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq by Larry Diamond Publisher Comments “Chillingand often scathingdetail . . . Should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the United States quick military victory has given way to an increasingly virulent insurgency.”The New York Times In the fall of 2003, Stanford... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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