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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Saudi Arabia (Complete Idiot's Guides)
by Colin Wells
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Some call it a friend to the U.S.; others a foe. Now get the facts on this complex and crucial nation. A detailed and comprehensive overview of this complex Middle Eastern country, this book covers Arabia's early history, the rise of the House of Saud... ( read more)
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Herzl's Nightmare: One Land, Two Peoples
by Peter Rodgers
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Theodor Herzl's dream of a national homeland for the Jewish people was realized when Israel declared its independence in 1948. Yet it was made possible through the deaths of millions of European Jews and at the expense of Palestinian society—a... ( read more)
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Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin
by Dan Kurzman
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Chapter One The Ingredients of Destiny The November 4 rally clearly seemed to Yitzhak Rabin the climax of an almost three-decade struggle to divert Israel's destiny from the path of war to the path of peace. In the process, he helped to alter the map of... ( read more)
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.
The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau... ( read more)
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Middle East Patterns Palces Peoples 4TH Edition
by Colbert C Held
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Now in its fourth edition, Middle East Patterns continues to be the only comprehensive, authoritative geographical study of the region. Colbert Held, a U.S. geographer who experienced firsthand and studied every country during his years of service in the... ( read more)
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Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution
by Haleh Esfandiari
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In Iran, the Islamic revolution of 1979 transformed all areas of Iranian life. For women, the consequences were extensive and profound, as the state set out to reverse legal and social rights women had won and to dictate many aspects of women's lives... ( read more)
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Beyond the Promised Land
by Glenn Frankel
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After half a century of enmity between Jew and Arab, two decades of occupation, and six years of bloody intifada, Israeli leaders are doing the unthinkable--shaking hands with their Arab adversaries. Pulitzer Prize-winner Glenn Frankel unlocks the story... ( read more)
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Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop?
by Bernard Wasserstein
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Israelis and Palestinians offers a startlingly new interpretation of the historical and contemporary realities of the conflict in the Middle East. Bernard Wasserstein challenges the conventional view of the struggle as driven primarily by irrational... ( read more)
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Land of Dreams
by Mordecai Schreiber
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In 1998 the State of Israel is celebrating its 50th anniversary. This memoir, written by a native son, recalls everyday life before, during, and after the birth of the state. More than a personal memoir, Land of Dreams, written from the viewpoint of both... ( read more)
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Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East
by Jeremy Bowen
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British Praise: "Fast paced.... The most gripping tale since the fall of France in the Second World War." - The Telegraph "What comes across is a sense of tragic inevitability.... The story is all so understandable, and all so tragic." - Scotland on... ( read more)
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From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays
by Edward W Said
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Nadine Gordimer once wrote, referring to Edward Said’s memoir Out of Place, “Said is in place among the truly important intellects in our century.” These forty-six eloquent and impassioned essays written by Said between December 2000... ( read more)
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Lawrence of Arabia: Mirage of a Desert War
by Adrian Greaves
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This compelling new biography uses primary sources and original research to uncover the truth about this legendary figure. T.E. Lawrence is one of the most enigmatic characters in British history. At the outbreak of the First World War he was working as... ( read more)
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Islamic Imperialism: A History
by Efraim Karsh
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From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So... ( read more)
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Sharon: Israel's Warrior-Politician
by Anita Miller
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Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister, is perhaps one of the most controversial public figures in the Mideast.<P>He was born in 1928 in a moshav -- an agricultural community in which, unlike a kibbutz, residents own their own property -- and was... ( read more)
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What Israel Means to Me
by Alan Dershowitz
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Personal and Passionate Reflections on the Land and Its People The Mediterranean landscape, the exuberance of the Israelis, the way politics is a matter of life and death there-all these things beguiled me. -Erica Jong, author What does Israel mean to me?... ( read more)
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Cambridge Middle East Studies #0001: Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran
by Parvin Paidar
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In a challenging and authoritative analysis, Parvin Paidar considers how Iranian women have been affected, and their position redefined, by the political transformations of twentieth-century Iran.... ( read more)
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Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now
by George S Mcgovern
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The authors present a detailed blueprint for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq that is bound to stir a national debate.... ( read more)
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Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
by Roya Hakakian
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“We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now we were discovering the importance of misbehaving. Too much fear had... ( read more)
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The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom
by Sandra Mackey
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In this updated insider's look at Saudi Arabia, Mackey reveals the chaos of a country in transformation: grappling with modernity, coming to terms with its own wealth, and battling to maintain an influential stance in an altogether new world. 2 maps.... ( read more)
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Turkish Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty
by F. Stephen Larrabee
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Turkey is facing strategic and security issues in the international enviroment during a time of extraordinary flux.... ( read more)
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