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by Jimmy Carter  
Publisher Comments Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President... (read more)  List Price $27.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments For 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 was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Craig Unger Publisher Comments Newsbreaking and controversial — an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud and explains its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national security... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Queen Noor Publisher Comments A national best-seller on its first publication in 2003, Leap of Faith is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. In it, Queen Noor of Jordan provides a compelling portrait of her late husband King Hussein and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fatima Marnissi Publisher Comments ”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Byron Publisher Comments In 1933 the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana -the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rajiv Chandrasekaran Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Everest Publisher Comments Is the U.S. poised to topple Saddam -because of his taste for biological and other weapons of mass destruction? Is it George Jr.'s revenge for his father? This tightly written book reveals the agenda behind the U.S. moves and why now. Including an... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steve Coll Publisher Comments Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden familyas rise to power and privilege, revealing new information to show how American influences changed the family and how one... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Ben Cramer Publisher Comments In How Israel Lost Richard Ben Cramer analyzes the four questions that have bedeviled Israel and Palestine for almost forty years: I. Why do we care about Israel? II. Why dont the Palestinians have a state? III. What is a Jewish state? IV. Why is there... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Afschineh Latifi Publisher Comments At the age of ten, a young Iranian girl witnesses the horror of her father's execution and escapes the revolution with her sister. Growing up in Tehran in the 1970s, Afschineh Latifi and her sister and two brothers enjoyed a life of luxury and privilege.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Contents Foreword by Edward W. Said Preface to the Updated Edition 1. Fanning the Flames 2. The Origins of the "Special Relationship" 3. Rejectionism and Accommodation 4. Isreal and Palestine: Historical Backgrounds 5. Peace for Galilee 6. Aftermath 7... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Sasson Publisher Comments Mayada's story both past and present is truly incredible. Her family was one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. The other was the first true Arab nationalist (admired greatly by... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Noah Feldman Publisher Comments Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His scholarship has defined the stakes in the Middle East today... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Grant Publisher Comments "The further away anyone was from that block of Ben Yehuda street, the easier it seemed to find a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, that stubborn mess in the center of the Middle East and the more I studied these solutions, the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jason Goodwin Publisher Comments Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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