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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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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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Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan Synopsis Brian Keenan's release from captivity was the first ray of hope for those hostages held in the Middle East. He describes the plight of his fellow hostages with first-hand knowledge. The language he uses reflects his past efforts as a poet in describing... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lords of Horizons (98 Edition) by Jason Goodwin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-[342]) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments In this timely and important book, new in paperback, Tariq Ali is lucid, eloquent, literary and painfully honest as he dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Modern Iran (09 Edition) by Ervand Abrahamian Publisher Comments In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid Publisher Comments Winner of the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Washington Post Book World Top Five Nonfiction Book of the Year A Seattle Times Top Ten Best Book of the Year A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In 2003, The Washington Post's Anthony... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev Publisher Comments One Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when Britain's promise to both Jews and Arabs that they would inherit the land, set in motion the conflict that... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel by Joe Sacco Staff Pick Joe Sacco brings a completely unique voice to journalism. He lives with those most under fire in the unending conflicts in Palestine and Bosnia, describing events through meticulous, painstaking cartooning. In Footnotes in Gaza, Sacco investigates a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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State of the Middle East : an Atlas of Conflict and Resolution (Rev 09 Edition) by Dan Smith Publisher Comments As Western powers attempt to redraw the map of the Middle East, Dan Smith uses his forensic skills to unravel this arena of confrontation and instability, from the Ottoman Empire to the present day. With customarily acute analysis, he highlights key... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sons of the Conquerors by Hugh Pope PW Review "Delving deep into a world most westerners are shamefully ignorant of, this highly readable collection of essays about Turkic people from Virginia to Xinjiang, China, buzzes with life and personality even as it explains topics as obscure as the inner... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran by Robin B Wright Publisher Comments Robin Wright has reported from over 120 countries for many leading news organizations, but her perceptive coverage of Iran has garnered her the most respect and praise among her colleagues. In The Last Great Revolution, Wright meticulously describes the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda Publisher Comments Michael Korda's Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale: a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile—including his blond, sun-burnished... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage Volume 1 by Richard F Burton Publisher Comments Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage). A treasury of material on Arab life, beliefs, manners and morals, and much... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shimon Peres: The Biography by Michael Bar Zohar Publisher Comments Twice Israels prime minister, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, bold leader in a war-torn region, Shimon Peres is one of the great statesmen of the modern world. Peres is also a fascinating, complex man–a brilliant intellectual who is entirely at... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.98 Used - Hardcover
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell Publisher Comments A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire:... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer Publisher Comments This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 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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