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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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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)
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
by Elizabeth Wa Fernea
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A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.... ( read more)
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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
by Hooman Majd
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A revealing look at Iran by an American journalist with an insider’s access behind Persian walls The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian... ( read more)
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Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
by Azar Nafisi
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Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mother, against the... ( read more)
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What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
by Bernard Lewis
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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)
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Peace To End All Peace : the Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (89 Edition)
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)
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Middle East Patterns Palces Peoples 4TH Edition
by Colbert C Held
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Now in its fourth edition, Middle East Patterns continues to be the only comprehensive, authoritative geographical study of the region. Colbert Held, a U.S. geographer who experienced firsthand and studied every country during his years of service in the... ( read more)
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Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
by Robin Wright
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A magnificent reckoning with the extraordinary changes engulfing the Middle East, by one of our greatest reporters on the region Robin Wright first landed in the Middle East on October 6, 1973, the day the fourth Middle East war erupted. She has covered... ( read more)
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by Geraldine Brooks
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With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... ( read more)
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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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Great War for Civilisation : Conquest of the Middle East (05 Edition)
by Robert Fisk
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A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region... ( read more)
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The Road to Democracy in Iran (Boston Review Books)
by Akbar Ganji
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Akbar Ganji, called by some andquot;Iran's most famous dissident,andquot; 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... ( read more)
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Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
by Alison Wearing
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The beautifully written travel memoir of a Western woman's journey in Iran In the tradition of Nothing to Declare, Honeymoon in Purdah is a book of sketches gathered over the course of one woman's journey in Iran. Through her, we meet the ordinary and... ( read more)
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
by Mark Bowden
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From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America’s first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary... ( read more)
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Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire
by Bernard Lewis
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"This work is an outstanding contribution to the history of the fascinating city of Istanbul and of the Islamic era....Highly recommended to all interested in the colorful history of the capital of the once powerful Byzantine Empire." The Catholic... ( read more)
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A Hundred and One Days
by Asne Seierstad
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Insightful account of the Iraq war, a city under seige and a fascinating portrait of the life of a foreign correspondent. Seierstad is the bestselling author of "The Bookseller Of Kabul".... ( read more)
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Atlas of the Arab Israeli Conflict
by Martin Gilbert
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The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for territorial... ( read more)
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.
The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau... ( read more)
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State of the Middle East (06 - Old Edition)
by Dan Smith
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A valuable tool for understanding the Middle East and global politics, this innovative and information-packed volume combines clear, analytical text with full-color maps and graphics to provide a comprehensive and accessible guide to the region today. As... ( read more)
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Testament: At the Creation of the State of Israel
by Aaron Levin
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In voices as plain as day, with memories as clear as dawn, the people of Israel offer their stories as TESTAMENT to the struggle to establish the Jewish state. Photographed on location in black and white, each face is a map, etched with the effort of... ( read more)
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