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by Sattareh F Farmaian  Publisher Comments The Remarkable story of the daughter of a once powerful and wealthy shazdeh, or prince, Farmaian tells a fascinating tale of growing up in the 1930s in a Persian harem compound in Tehran. Breaking with Muslim tradition, she became... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (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 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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gertrude Lowthian Bell Publisher Comments Passionate about Arabia, then an inhospitable land of nomadic and warring tribes under Turkish control, Bell wrote this account of her extraordinary 1905 trip across the Syrian Desert from Jericho to Antioch.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carmen Bin Ladin Publisher Comments On September 11, 2001, Carmen Bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her brother-in-law was involved in these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart went out to America. She also knew that her life... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Schwartz Publisher Comments Essential reading for anyone interested in the background of the war on terror and the future of the Middle East policy, this eye-opening expos reveals America's profound ignorance about its closest ally in the region--Saudi Arabia.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sandra Mackey Publisher Comments in this defining portrait of a troubled nation and the forces that shape it, Iranian history and religion becomes accessible to the nonspecialist. Combining impeccable scholarship with the human insight of firsthand observations, "The Iranians" provides... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Harris Publisher Comments - The book will be published just in time for the 25th anniversary of the embassy takeover. - The conflict between militant Islam and the West was catalyzed in Iran in 1979, making this the best kind of history: a book that helps us understand not only... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert E Litan Publisher Comments "Sticking Together" examines the many challenges confronting Israel's experience with pluralism, and in the process, draws lessons that might prove useful to other societies that struggle to accommodate the needs of highly diverse populations.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $5.93 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lewis Alsamari Publisher Comments At the age of seventeen, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Hussein’s army. The training was brutal, with discipline enforced by regular beatings, and desertion punishable by mutilation or imprisonment. Somehow Lewis made it through and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rashid Khalidi Publisher Comments America and the Western Adventure in the Middle east.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christiane Bird Publisher Comments Fusing travelogue, historical inquiry, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, "Neither East Nor West is a landmark contribution to travel writing and to cultural studies, as well as a timely illumination of a nation deeply misunderstood by... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Avi Shlaim Book News Annotation Shlaim (international relations, Oxford U., England and one of the early "revisionist" or new historians of Israel) offers a chronological account and evaluation of the first 50 years of Israeli policy towards the Arab world. Includes a chronology and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward W Said Publisher Comments Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most recent developments in the Middle East- from the intifada to the Gulf war to the historic peace conference in Madrid.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael 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 $30.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Baruch Kimmerling Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-220) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.98 (Used - Hardcover) 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 $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Geneive Abdo Publisher Comments Taking the reader inside Iran's key institutions, Geneive Abdo and Jonathan Lyons argue that the 1979 Iranian revolution, long viewed in the West as the pursuit of an imagined medieval Utopia, was in fact a political movement designed to modernize Islam.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yagil Levy Publisher Comments Questions the commonly accepted view that Israel's military policies were formed in direct response to Arab states' hostility and argues for a historical linkage between Israel's changing military posture and the development of an inequitable Israeli... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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