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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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Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W Said Publisher Comments In this landmark work, for which he has written a new Introduction, one of our foremost public thinkers examines to origins and repercussions of the media's monolithic images of Islam. Combining political commentary with literary criticism, Edward Said... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Culture and Imperialism by Edward W Said Publisher Comments In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said's immense erudition and interpretive audacity are brought to bear on a variety of literatures, reanimating the terms of his title and discovering, in the process, how some of the most revered cultural productions... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Iran: A People Interrupted by Hamid Dabashi Publisher Comments A political and cultural history of Iran and an up-to-the-moment account of the latest "rogue nation" to make international headlines, by a preeminent Iranian scholar. <BR>Iran's nuclear ambitions have thrust that country into the international... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Travels in Persia, 1673-1677 (88 Edition) by John Chardin Publisher Comments First inexpensive edition of great travel classic offers detailed, sharply observed portrait of 17th-century Persia. Vivid record of life at court of Shah: lavish banquets and entertainments, diplomatic negotiations, intrigues and cruelty, more. Also... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter by Thomas L Friedman Publisher Comments Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward W Said Publisher Comments From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni Publisher Comments Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Council on Foreign Relations Book) by Noah Feldman Publisher Comments "In Feldman's fascinating intellectual journey through history, Islamic law, and modern politics, you will discover the power of 'justice.' It is both the driving force behind efforts in the Arab world to democratize, constitutionalize, and modernize... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn Mckay Brodie Publisher Comments Starting in a hollowed log of wood--some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!" So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Land of Israel (93 Edition) by Amos Oz Publisher Comments Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s and spoke with many people about the past, present, and future of his country. What he found is memorably set down here. New Authors Note and Postscript; map. Translated by Maurie Goldberg... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacred Landscape by Meron Benvenisti Publisher Comments As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Islam and Democracy in the Middle East (Journal of Democracy Book) by Larry Diamond Publisher Comments Islam and Democracy in the Middle East provides a comprehensive assessment of the origins and staying power of Middle East autocracies, as well as a sober account of the struggles of state reformers and opposition forces to promote civil liberties... (read more) List Price $35.75 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing Publisher Comments With a love of travel, Alison Wearing invites us to journey with her to Iran--a country that few Westerners have a chance to see. Traveling with a male friend, in the guise of a couple on their honeymoon, Wearing set out on her own at every available... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road to Democracy in Iran (Boston Review Books) by Akbar Ganji Publisher Comments Akbar Ganji, called by some Iran's most famous dissident, 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 pro-democracy... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.25 Used - Hardcover
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The: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 by Rudi Matthee Publisher Comments From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Raphaël du... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Behind the Veil of Vice by John Bradley Publisher Comments The Middle East has long been something of a mystery to Westerners, and in particular, the sexual mores of the region continue to fascinate. Arabs are often described as being in a state of Islam-induced sexual anxiety and young Muslims frustrations are... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments 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) List Price $39.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean: Late 19th Century Until the 1960s (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East an) by Christoph Schumann Publisher Comments This volume analyzes liberal thought in the Eastern Mediterranean since the late nineteenth century, highlighting its long-term and ongoing influence, and challenging the conventional wisdom that liberalism has no legitimate place in the region's... (read more) List Price $168.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Blood of Abraham: Insights Into the Middle East by Jimmy Carter Synopsis In a new edition of this national bestseller, Carter demystifies the history of each of the nations that comprise the Middle East, the reasons for their different goals, and the nature of their prime concerns--and provides an enlightened and reconciling... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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