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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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish Publisher Comments By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "who... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised and Updated by David K Shipler Publisher Comments The Jew, according to the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. In this monumental work, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments In this highly acclaimed and original work of social and cultural history, the author of the bestselling Balkan Ghosts relates the never-before-told story of the expatriate elite that shaped American policy in the Middle East for more than a century. 39... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East by Marc Lynch Publisher Comments Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region’s politics almost beyond recognition. But the... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody Publisher Comments In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution by Sattareh F Farmaian Publisher Comments An intimate and honest chronicle of the everyday life of Iranian women over the past century “A lesson about the value of personal freedom and what happens to a nation when its people are denied the right to direct their own destiny. This is a book... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey Into the World of the Suicide Bomber by Anne Marie Oliver Publisher Comments Don't expect to find here the usual clichés about suicide bombers and what drives them. In this unique study, Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg render the story of two intertwining, often clashing journeys. The authors lived for six months with a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Middle East by Bernard W Lewis Publisher Comments In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America by Kenneth M Pollack Publisher Comments In his highly influential book The Threatening Storm, bestselling author Kenneth Pollack both informed and defined the national debate about Iraq. Now, in The Persian Puzzle, published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iran hostage... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr Publisher Comments The New York Times... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer Publisher Comments THE ASSASSIN'S GATE recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It tells the story of the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy, the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal by Asne Seierstad Publisher Comments For one hundred and one days Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad. Always in search of a story far less obvious than the American military invasion, Seierstad brings to life the world behind the headlines in this compelling- and heartbreaking... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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The Muslim Discovery of Europe by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 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: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood Brothers by Eliasa Chacour Publisher Comments Chacour blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the birth of modern Israel. He touches on controversial questions, such as "What behind-the-scenes politics touched off the... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry by Itamar Rabinovich Publisher Comments An anthology of the most important documents on the domestic and foreign policy of the modern state of Israel, in relation to the rest of the Middle... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp Publisher Comments To understand Iraq, Charles Tripp's history is the book to read. Since its first appearance in 2000, it has become a classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by students, soldiers, policymakers and journalists. The book is now... (read more) List Price $83.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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