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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid Publisher Comments “Anthony Shadids beautifully rendered memoir is a rich account of a mans gradual immersion into the world of the Middle East and the culture of the Levant, a kingdom almost unrecognizable today, where the rooms and hallways of his great... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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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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Great Game (92 Edition) by Peter Hopkirk Publisher Comments THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY'S HEADLINES Peter Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era's legacy playing itself out today. The Great Game... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan Publisher Comments In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Orientalism by Edward W Said Publisher Comments The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years. What are the possibilities-and hazards-facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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We Heard the Heavens Then: A Memoir of Iran by Aria Minu-Sepehr Publisher Comments ARIA MINU-SEPEHR was raised in a sheltered world of extraordinary privilege as the son of a major general in the Shahs Imperial Iranian Air Force. It seemed his father could do anything—lead the Golden Crowns in death-defying aerobatic maneuvers... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Modern Israeli Tanks and Infantry Carriers 1985-2004 by Marsh Gelbart Publisher Comments Over the last two decades, the Israel Defence Force (IDF) has introduced a variety of new AFVs. Old models such as the M48 and M60 have been improved beyond recognition, in the form of the Magach 7. The performance of Israel's indigenous Merkava tank has... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T E Lawrence Publisher Comments The monumental work that assured T.E. Lawrence's place in history as "Lawrence of Arabia." Not only a consummate military history, but also a colorful epic and a lyrical exploration of the mind of a great man who helped shape the Middle East as... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shah by Abbas Milani Publisher Comments Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant today. He was a social reformer, a romantic egomaniac, and a deeply conflicted man and leader. Here, internationally... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin From Powells.com In a famous line toward the end of David Lean's magnificent Lawrence of Arabia, Prince Faisal tells Lawrence, "Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men, courage and hope for the future. Then, old men make... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States by Bruce Maddy-weitzman Publisher Comments The first full-length treatment of the emergence of the modern Berber identity movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora, the challenges it poses to Moroccan and Algerian authorities and to competing Islamist movements, and their responses to it.... (read more) Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Places In Between by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Israeli-palestinian Conflict (2ND 09 Edition) by Mark A. Tessler Publisher Comments Mark Tessler's highly praised, comprehensive, and balanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the earliest times to the present--updated through the first years of the 21st century--provides a constructive framework for understanding recent... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire by Tom Holland Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of Rubicon and other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly panoramic (and incredibly timely) account of the rise of Islam. No less significant than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Saudi Arabia (Middle East in Focus) by Sherifa Zuhur Publisher Comments In this comprehensive introduction to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, author Sherifa Zuhur reveals the fascinating people, culture, politics, and economic development of the largest Arab country of the Middle East. The book provides a detailed summary of... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price: $67.00 New - Hardcover
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb Publisher Comments Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Went Wrong? tells the story of his extraordinary life After September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation, catapulting What Went... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed Publisher Comments In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the current debate about women and Islam by exploring its historical roots, tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender from the ancient world to the present.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land by Mark Braverman Publisher Comments Mark Braverman shows how the Jewish quest for safety and empowerment and the Christian endeavor to atone for centuries of anti-Semitism have combined to suppress the conversations needed to bring about a just and lasting peace in the Holy Land. Fatal... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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