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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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Lemon Tree : an Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (06 Edition) 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: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel by Michael N Barnett Publisher Comments What determines the strategies by which a state mobilizes resources for war? And does war preparation strengthen or weaken the state in relation to society? In addressing these questions, Michael Barnett develops a novel theoretical framework that traces... (read more) List Price $74.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary Publisher Comments We in the west share a common narrative of world history—that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story largely omits a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tasting the Sky : Palestinan Childhood (07 Edition) by Ibtisam Barakat Publisher Comments Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors. “When a war ends it does not go away,” my mother says.“It hides inside us . . . Just forget!” ... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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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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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: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women by Jean Said Makdisi Publisher Comments In this "beautifully written memoir" (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her mother, Hilda Musa Said, and her Teta, "Granny" Munira Badr Musa. Against the backdrop of the fall of... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B Oren Publisher Comments A gripping account of one of the pivotal events in modern Middle Eastern history — on the 35th anniversary of the war In Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T E Lawrence Publisher Comments The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest production standards. History, philosophy, psychology, political theory, fiction, and ancient texts are now accessible to everyone at an extremely affordable... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean P Sasson Publisher Comments Because she is a woman, she is considered worthless -- a slave to the whims of her male masters. She has watched sisters, cousins and friends sold into marriage as young girls to men five times their age and brutally murdered for the slightest... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Princess Sultana's Daughters by Jean P Sasson Publisher Comments Reader's of Princess Sultana's true story, Princess, were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. Now, the princess and Jean Sasson turn the spotlight on Sultana's two teenage daughters,... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Wa Fernea Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Aftermath (10 Edition) by Nir Rosen Publisher Comments Nir Rosen’s Aftermath, an extraordinary feat of reporting, follows the contagious spread of radicalism and sectarian violence that the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing civil war have unleashed in the Muslim world. Rosen—who the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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Generation Freedom (11 Edition) by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments Timely and provocative, Generation Freedom looks at the historic youth uprisings sweeping the Middle East and what they mean for the future of peace, coexistence, and relations with the West. At a time when the world is asking how the Arab Spring and... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Time To Betray (10 Edition) by Reza Kahlili Publisher Comments A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today’s headlines from the Middle East, 2010 National Best Books Award-winning A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative’s memoir possibly could... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq by Kanan Makiya Publisher Comments First published in 1989, just before the Gulf War broke out, Republic of Fear was the only book that explained the motives of the Saddam Hussein regime in invading and annexing Kuwait. This edition, updated in 1998, has a substantial introduction... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Raid on the Sun by Rodger W. Claire Publisher Comments The first authorized inside account of one of the most daring—and successful—military operations in recent history From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to destroy Israel. So when France sold Iraq a top... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ariel Sharon: A Life in Times of Turmoil: The Israeli-Arab Conflict from the 1930s to the Present by Freddy Eytan Publisher Comments A former Israeli ambassador and journalist tells Israel's story through the life of a man who in many ways is the incarnation of the country. Ariel Sharon's life is told as a biographical chronicle, easy to read, hard to put down, replete with anecdotes,... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Righteous Victims by Benny Morris Publisher Comments At a time when the Middle East has come closer to achieving peace than ever before, eminent Israeli historian Benny Morris explodes the myths cherished by both sides to present an epic history of Zionist-Arab relations over the past 120 years. Tracing... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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