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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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Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore Publisher Comments Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Tasting the Sky : Palestinan Childhood (07 Edition) by Ibtisam Barakat Publisher Comments Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors. “When a war ends it does not go away,” my mother says.“It hides inside us . . . Just forget!” ... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel by Michael N Barnett Publisher Comments What determines the strategies by which a state mobilizes resources for war? And does war preparation strengthen or weaken the state in relation to society? In addressing these questions, Michael Barnett develops a novel theoretical framework that traces... (read more) List Price $74.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) by Hilary Sumner-boyd Publisher Comments Available for the first time since its original publication thirty-seven years ago, this classic guide to Istanbul by Hilary Sumner-Boyd and John Freely is published in a completely revised and updated edition. Taking the reader on foot through... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project) by Peter Van Buren Publisher Comments A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq—a shocking and rollicking true-life tale of Americans abroad Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Osmans Dream the Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300 1923 by Caroline Finkel Publisher Comments The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East, 2001-2006 by Charles Enderlin Publisher Comments "Enderlin meticulously chronicles the political and diplomatic impasses...revealing the history of this former film noir through interviews with the men who were its lead actors." —Le Monde From Ariel Sharon's ascent to power in... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Ariel Sharon: A Life in Times of Turmoil: The Israeli-Arab Conflict from the 1930s to the Present by Freddy Eytan Publisher Comments A former Israeli ambassador and journalist tells Israel's story through the life of a man who in many ways is the incarnation of the country. Ariel Sharon's life is told as a biographical chronicle, easy to read, hard to put down, replete with anecdotes,... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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