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by Ofra Bengio  Publisher Comments This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. By analyzing political terms, concepts, and idioms as disseminated through the... (read more)  List Price $52.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Mohammad G Majd Publisher Comments Mohammad Gholi Majd examines land policy in Iran under the two Pahlavi shahs from 1925 to 1979, the social and economic consequences of the policies, and their impact on the popular uprisings of 1962-63, which many scholars regard as the beginning of the... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $44.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by S Daniel Abraham Publisher Comments A first-hand personal account of American businessman and Slim Fast founder Danny Abraham's more than 15 years of peacemaking efforts in the Middle East and the reasons he believes peace is possible. <BR>For more than fifteen years, entrepreneur... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cathy Sultan Publisher Comments Sultan's memoir chronicles the survival of an American woman, her Lebanese husband, and their young children in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil war of 1975.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Schenker Publisher Comments David Schenker, an expert in Middle Eastern politics, explores the complex nature of Jordanian-Iraqi relations and the extent to which deep historical, ethnic, economic, and political ties between the two states could provide the key to Iraqs... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dan Cohn Sherbok Publisher Comments The second edition of this best-selling introduction includes up to the minute discussions of key issues such as the outcome of the 2003 Israeli elections and the implications of war with Iraq.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Shadid Publisher Comments From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, this riveting account illuminates ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Godfrey Goodwin Publisher Comments Reconstructing the role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, Godfrey Goodwin brings to life the women who made their marks in a male domain. He examines the laws which governed women's lives from the harem to the humblest tasks, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Celia Rothenberg Publisher Comments Anthropologist Celia Rothenberg gives us a rare glimpse into the daily life of a contemporary Palestinian village, where women's lives are structured more by moral codes and societal norms than by political activism. In this rich ethnographic portrait... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barry Rubin Publisher Comments Yasir Arafat stands as one of the most resilient, recognizable and controversial political figures of modern times. The object of unrelenting suspicion, steady admiration and endless speculation, Arafat has occupied the center stage of Middle East... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Said Makdisi Publisher Comments Rich in warmth and insight, a personal and cultural history of three generations of Arab women. In this "beautifully written memoir" (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her mother... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Tripp Publisher Comments To understand Iraq, Charles Tripp's history is the book to read. Since its first appearance in 2000, it has become a classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by students, soldiers, policymakers and journalists. The book is now... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Igal Sarna Publisher Comments "Throughout my life as a journalist," writes Igal Sarna in his preface, "I have written about Israeli traumas and have seen how new lives are built on the ruins. How a new land sprouts out from a charred ground zero." In this striking collection of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vali Nasr 
Publisher Comments The critical struggle between Shia and Sunni for the future of the Middle East. To most Western eyes, all Islamic movements look alike, and the central conflict in the Middle East is one between religion and secularism. Shockingly little has been... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eva Etzioni-halevy Publisher Comments The Divided People describes a fracturing Israel, a deeply divided state whose political system is buckling and whose society is rapidly polarizing into religious and secular camps. Written by a social scientist and drawing upon social science research... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.95 (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 Jan Morris Publisher Comments Perfectly captures the medieval nature of the hermit state of Oman before the discovery of oil opened it to the outside world.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments President Carters challenging and provocative assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice for Palestinians--and one of the most important books of the year--is now available in paperback.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shloo Kalo Publisher Comments A major Israeli novelist makes his British debut in this biting expose of the real world we inhabit with all its conspiracies and hypocrisies.... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Saul Singer Publisher Comments American-Israeli journalist Saul Singer explains how Israel copes with the daily threat of terrorism and offers practical lessons for post-September 11 America in Confronting Jihad. As a journalist living in Jerusalem virtually on the front lines of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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