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by Gene Lindsey  Book News Annotation An American businessman's view (developed over the past decade--much of which he spent in the Kingdom) of Saudi resources, enterprise, investment, and world view. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more)  List Price $19.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit Publisher Comments A pioneering investigation of the lineage of anti-Western stereotypes that traces them back to the West itself. Twenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the denigrating and dangerous mirage of "the East"... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Vernon Egger Publisher Comments This book is an introduction to the history of the Muslim world for readers with little or no knowledge of the subject. It points out the unifying elements that bind together the Muslim world, but stresses the religious and political differences that... (read more) List Price $62.00 Your price $39.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dorothy W Drummond Synopsis Holy Land, Whose Land? examines how the land sacred to three world religions has become a cauldron of conflict, struggling with the continual intrusion of the past upon the present. The book traverses the region's history from Abraham to Arafat, focusing... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sharona Muir Publisher Comments After her father died, Sharona Muir learned by chance that he had invented Israel’s first rocket. Muir’s parents divorced when she was very young, but she adored the father she saw on Saturday outings. She knew him as Invention-a-Minute Ben,&#... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Dreyfuss Publisher Comments The first complete account of America's most dangerous foreign policy miscalculation--60 years of support for Islamic fundamentalism--is the gripping story of America's misguided efforts, stretching across decades, to dominate the strategically vital... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Zwicker Kerr Publisher Comments "A moving story of love and loss, told with lyrical simplicity .... She leaves us with detailed pictures of what has been loved and lost: Malcolm Kerr, and the old days of carefree hope in Lebanon". -- Helena... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth Cragg Book News Annotation Bishop Cragg explores the historical relationship between Philistines and children of Israel. He finishes with a strong assertion of the importance of the dwindling Palestinian Christian community, and the contribution that Christian thinking on... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Varner Publisher Comments Jacob's Dozen is a study of the biblical history and prophecies associated with each of the tribes of Israel. It is based on Jacob's deathbed prophecies concerning each of his twelve sons found in Genesis 49. The remarkable manner in which each prophecy... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Sasson Publisher Comments Jean Sasson met Mayada Al-Askari on a trip to Baghdad in 1998. One year later, Jean learned that Mayada had been taken without the knowledge of her family from the tiny print shop that she owned, and imprisoned in the notorious Baladiyat... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoff Simons Publisher Comments Accomplished author Geoff Simons offers an incisive look at the implications of US involvement in... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Asne Seierstad Publisher Comments From January until April 2003 — for one hundred and one days — Åsne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Bagdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the events in Iraq before,... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernard Lewis Synopsis The Middle East is the home of ancient civilizations, yet most of its states are of recent origin. In modern times, the very nature of the area's identity, allegience and legitimacy has undergone and is undergoing major changes; this book examines the... (read more) Your price $3.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Milton Viorst Publisher Comments The Middle East has long been a volatile yet vital region in world politics. In his captivating new book, In the Shadow of the Prophet, journalist Milton Viorst illuminates the complex struggle to reconcile the Muslim community's fierce determination to... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Packer Publisher Comments THE ASSASSIN'S GATE recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It tells the story of the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy, the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Efraim Halevy Publisher Comments Israel’s Mossad is thought by many to be one of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world. In Man in the Shadows, Efraim Halevy—a Mossad officer since 1961 and its chief between 1998 and 2002—provides an unprecedented... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Roush Publisher Comments Patricia Roush's girls were kidnapped more than 16 years ago and taken by their Saudi father, who they hardly knew, to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They were three and seven at the time. At Any Price is the story of her fight to get them back from a... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mia Grondahl Publisher Comments Documents the lives of the Palestinian refugees who for four generations have lived a 'temporary' life while they wait the right to return to their... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Moni Farmanfarmaian Publisher Comments In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born. From the enchanted... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernard Reich Publisher Comments Major Middle Eastern and North African political leaders are profiled in this biographical reference volume. It is one of the few systematic examinations of the political personalities and leaders in this area of the world. The book focuses on the period... (read more) List Price $105.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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