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by Amira Hass  Publisher Comments In 1993, Amira Hass, an Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story -- and stayed for four years. She was the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by many Israelis that in the local idiom "Go to Gaza" is... (read more)  List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Barbara Kreiger Publisher Comments The Dead Sea is unlike any other place on earth. Situated a quarter mile below sea level, so saline it can't support life, surrounded by a desolate landscape, it is not just a geologic feature but a source of mystery connected to religious faith. In... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rex Brynen Publisher Comments The Palestinian refugee issue remains a central component of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In this timely book, bringing together the most cutting-edge research from various disciplines, Rex Brynen and Roula El-Rifai explore the demographic and... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William R. Polk Publisher Comments Iraq will continue to be a major issue and involvement for the United States into the foreseeable future says William R. Polk, former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council and professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Avi Shlaim Publisher Comments The conflict between Israel and the Palestine promulgated an "iron wall" -- dealing with the Arabs from a position of unassailable strength -- which was meant to yield to a further stage where Israel would be strong enough to negotiate a satisfactory... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments A devastating critique of America's military occupation of Iraq by one of the leaders of the global antiwar movement, Tariq Ali. Eschewing the liberal option of hand-wringing and the fashionable lurch to the right by some former leftists, Bush in Babylon... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Moshe Maor Publisher Comments This volume brings together a set of articles that try to estimate the direction of developments in Israeli public administration: whether ministries will remain under the ambit of the Weberian model, follow the New Public Management model, or move... (read more) List Price $43.95 Your price $13.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Shatz Publisher Comments Contrary to the claims of the American Jewish establishment and the Israel lobby, Jews do not speak with one voice about the Middle East. Since the early 20th century some of the fiercest and most eloquent critiques of Israel and Zionism have been made... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Martinkus Publisher Comments For this riveting portrait of a city on the brink of civil war, one of Australia's most intrepid journalists spent eight weeks in and around Baghdad. Here, he takes readers into the heart of the political and religious struggles surrounding the hand-over... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Segev Publisher Comments The founding of Israel in 1948--one of the seminal events of the century--offers a heroic narrative with few parallels in modern history. In 1949, a controversial best-seller in Israel, Tom Segev draws on thousands of declassified documents along with... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roman Brackman Publisher Comments A great deal has been written about Hitler's hatred for the Jews, but so far very -little has been revealed about Stalin's anti-Semitism and his plan to destroy the Soviet Jewry on the eve of his death. This book intends to fill that void. After the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adel Beshara Publisher Comments This book examines the ideological, political and social underpinnings of the attempted coup against General Chihab's government in Lebanon in 1961. The author analyses the role of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, the history of the army in... (read more) Your price $108.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by International Busine Publisher Comments Business intelligence information for successful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more. Updated... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price $28.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments The Assassins is a comprehensive, readable, and authoritative account of history's first terrorists. An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make systematic use of murder as a political weapon. Established... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenize Mourad Publisher Comments In 2002 celebrated novelist and journalist Kenize Mourad traveled through Israel and the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, interviewing ordinary Palestinians and Israelis who have been extraordinarily touch by the conflict between... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Matthews Publisher Comments George W. Bush first met Ariel Sharon in 1998 on a fact-finding trip to Israel when he was governor of Texas and contemplating a run for the White House. From the memorable helicopter tour he gave the future president on that visit until he was... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $20.50 (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.Us revenge for his father? This tightly written book reveals the agenda behind the U.S. moves and explains why now.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by As'ad AbuKhalil Publisher Comments Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments The twentieth century has often been a bloody one for Jerusalem. But it has also been a century of creativity and satisfaction, exuberant life, determination, civic achievement, and perpetual hope. — from Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) 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 $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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