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Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
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Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
by Raja Shehadeh

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Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is...
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Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
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Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence

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When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city center and caught in the war's crossfire. Once Anthony entered Baghdad he discovered that full-scale combat and...
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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
by Karl E Meyer

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A brilliant narrative history tracing today's troubles back to grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States. Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who...
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A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East
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A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East
by Kenneth Pollack

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A persuasive but painful solution for dealing with the mess in the Middle East. -Kirkus The greatest danger to America's peace and prosperity, notes leading Middle East policy analyst Kenneth M. Pollack, lies in the political repression, economic...
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Empires, Wars, and Battles: The Middle East from Antiquity to the Rise of the New World
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Empires, Wars, and Battles: The Middle East from Antiquity to the Rise of the New World
by T Hopkins

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As current events have made painfully obvious, the Middle East is a region long torn by strife and traditions of warfare. In this elegant, fast-paced, and well thought out cultural and military history, T. C. F. Hopkins, author of Confrontation at...
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The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation
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The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation
by Marwan Muasher

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Marwan Muasher, a prominent Jordanian diplomat, has been instrumental in shaping Middle East peace efforts for nearly twenty years. He served as Jordan’s first ambassador to Israel and was also ambassador to the United States, spokesperson at peace...
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Muhajababes: Meet the New Middle East--Young, Sexy, and Devout
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Muhajababes: Meet the New Middle East--Young, Sexy, and Devout
by Allegra Stratton

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andldquo;Muhajababeswill disabuse you of your preconceptions of the Middle East forever.andrdquo;andmdash;The Times Literary Supplement andldquo;Fascinating. . . . Muhajababesis direct, energetic, and unpretentious.andrdquo;andmdash;Guardian andldquo...
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The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel
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The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel
by Gabriel Piterberg

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Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature. In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines the ideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the late nineteenth century...
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Iraq Then and Now: A Guide to the Country and Its People (Bradt Travel Guide Iraq)
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Iraq Then and Now: A Guide to the Country and Its People (Bradt Travel Guide Iraq)
by Karen Dabrowska

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This new Bradt title responds to huge public interest in both Iraq and its people and is less a travel guide – certainly for the time being – and more of an objective account of Saddam’s regime as a whole, and the build-up to the recent...
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A Brief History of Israel
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A Brief History of Israel
by Bernard Reich

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The complex tale of Israel's people and their modern state, established thousands of years after the destruction of the old one, is narrated against the backdrop of exile, anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Holocaust. A Brief History of Israel, Second...
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Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan and Beloochistan: With Historical Notices of the Countries Lying Between Russia and
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Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan and Beloochistan: With Historical Notices of the Countries Lying Between Russia and
by Joseph Pier Ferrier

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional...
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Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth-A Memoir of Iran
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Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth-A Memoir of Iran
by Camelia Entekhabifard

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"A courageous book by a gifted journalist that peels back the many layers of repression faced by journalists in Iran. Entekhabifard has written an affecting, emotionally rich memoir that is a must-read for anyone concerned with the current Iranian...
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Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
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Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
by David G Dalin

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A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verve and extraordinary access to primary sources in several...
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Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Ronald Florence

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The rivalry that presaged the world's most tenacious conflict As the Arab -Israeli conflict continues to plague the Middle East, historian Ronald Florence offers extraordinary new insights on its origins. This is the story of T. E. Lawrence, the young...
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American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem
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American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem
by Jane Geniesse

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For generations, a fabled mansion in Jerusalem has been the retreat for foreign correspondents, diplomats, pilgrims, and spies, but, until now, no one had known the true story of the house that became the American Colony Hotel, with its bizarre history...
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