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by Tariq Ali  Publisher Comments This series of interviews brings together Ali's insights into a wide range of topics--among them the fate of modern-day Pakistan, the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the state of the Islamic world, and... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by James L Gelvin Publisher Comments In the wake of 11 September 2001, there has been much talk about the inevitable clash between "East" and "West." This book presents an alternative approach to understanding the genealogy of contemporary events. By taking students and the general reader... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Ben Cramer Publisher Comments The ebbing support for Israel among Western governments is a major landmark in the history of the last decade, and is without a doubt an issue that will influence many events to come. Pulitzer Prize winner Cramer presents readers with a definitive study... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roya Hakakian Publisher Comments This lyrical coming-of-age story creates an intimate portrait of life in Tehran: the author's family and friends, her life at school, her observations of Iran's political life, and her longing to escape a sense of displacement from her home, culture, and... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Craig S David Publisher Comments The Middle East is a hotbed of political and military activity. News about the region and its players appear every day in newspapers and on television reports. Information on the Middle East, terrorism, and Islam is in high demand as people seek to... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Suad Amiry Publisher Comments Based on diaries and e-mail correspondence that architect Suad Amiry kept from 1981 to 2004, "Sharon and My Mother-in-Law "evokes" "the frustrations, cabin fever, and downright misery of daily life in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Amiry writes elegance... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Bowden 
Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Olivier Roy Publisher Comments In this book, Olivier Roy, Europe's leading scholar of political Islam, argues that the consequences of the war on terror have artificially conflated conflicts in the Middle East in such a way that they appear to be the expression of a widespread Muslim... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roane Carey Publisher Comments The second Intifada arose in September 2000. The course of the uprising, its consequences for the Palestinian people and the Israeli state, and its impact on the future of peace in the Middle East are traced here. 30 photos.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 Jacob Lassner Publisher Comments Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics. Whether real or imagined,... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $22.95 (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 $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Blincoe Publisher Comments Israel, Palestine and the international solidarity movement.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Goldschmidt Publisher Comments The sixth edition of Arthur Goldschmidt's widely acclaimed text has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East, including an updated concluding chapter on events since Rabin's assassination... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Norman G. Finkelstein Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-280) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Riverbend
Publisher Comments In her riveting weblog, a remarkable young Iraqi woman gives a human face to war and occupation. In August 2003, the world gained access to a remarkable new voice: a blog written by a 25-year-old Iraqi woman living in Baghdad, whose identity remained... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland, breached for the first time since 1812, led to... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bassam Tibi Publisher Comments Bassam Tibi, a widely recognized expert on Islam and Arab culture (and a Muslim), views Islamic fundamentalism as the result of Islam's confrontation with modernity.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher Comments Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life"the machines, the calling cards, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (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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