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Dubai: Gilded Cage
In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study...
The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis
Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than...
Arabesque (Deluxe)
$50.00 AUD
Greg Malouf is widely admired as one of Australia's most innovative and influential chefs. His passion for the food of his Lebanese heritage, combined with his extensive travels, have led...
I Never Said Goodbye: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Brutal Loss Inside
$12.00 AUD
Yorkshire-born Pauline Samarraie set off for Baghdad in 1962, full of hopes and dreams, to start a new life with her Iraqi husband, Munem, a talented young scientist with a...
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S.
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie. "An amazingly detailed account of fighting in...
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran
A superb, authoritatively written insider's account of one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world: Iran. Few historians and journalists writing in English have been...
Blood Brothers - The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working
As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. When tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in...
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire
The definitive biography of Saladin. Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in...
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
From the first rumblings of dissent in 2011, No Turning Back shows the unravelling of a nation: peaceful protests in Damascus collapsing into violence, families on both sides shattered by...
Maman and Me: Recipes from Our Iranian American Family
A gorgeous cookbook filled with 78 delicious cook-at-home Iranian American recipes from beloved mother-and-daughter duo Roya Shariat and Gita Sadeh. You will fall in love with Roya Shariat and her...
Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond
Jointly published by Macmillan and the State Library of Victoria in association with the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this book accompanies an exhibition of original manuscripts relating to Persian poetry and...
Maman and Me: Recipes from Our Iranian American Family
A gorgeous cookbook filled with 78 delicious cook-at-home Iranian American recipes from beloved mother-and-daughter duo Roya Shariat and Gita Sadeh. You will fall in love with Roya Shariat and her...
Hummus to Halva: Recipes from a Levantine Kitchen
Passionate about hummus, Ronen Givon and Christian Mouysset celebrate the versatile and healthy dip. A true staple of the Middle East and the Mediterranean they venture further afield than your...
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three decades, as president of the United States and as founder of The...
Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America
Ehud Barak's election as Prime Minister of Israel on 17th May 1999 and his determination to conclude a peace deal with the Palestinians inspired both Israeli voters and the international...
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and
An intimate account of the Israel-Palestine conflict and beyond, from one of Australia's most experienced foreign correspondents. Now updated with a foreword by Stan Grant and a new author's note....
Proof of Conspiracy
The dramatic and meticulously researched new book from former criminal defence attorney and criminal investigator Seth Abramson into the complex web of ties surrounding Donald Trump, showing how Proof of...
Love In A Torn Land
True story of the bride of a Kurdish freedom fighter caught up in Saddam's chemical attacks, by the bestselling author of the Princess trilogy and Mayada- Daughter of Iraq Bestselling...
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was...
The House of the Mosque
Welcome to the house of the mosque . . . Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on...
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
$15.00 AUD
***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner*** In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism...
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S.
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie. "An amazingly detailed account of fighting in...
Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State
The first biography in more than a generation of the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the state of Israel. Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as...
From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth
$10.00 AUD
This book describes life in an assimilated German-Jewish family before World War I. It is a book peopled with such notable figures as S.Y. Agnmon, S.H. Bergman, Walter Benjamin, S.D....
Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town
Bread and Henna: an engaging travel narrative relating a social anthropologist's experiences of eighteen months living among the women of a small mountain town in Yemen during the early 1980s....
Authors Take Sides On Iraq
This book records the contemporary opinions and reactions of over 170 distinguished authors to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the...
Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948
As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti travelled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian...
Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town
Bread and Henna: an engaging travel narrative relating a social anthropologist's experiences of eighteen months living among the women of a small mountain town in Yemen during the early 1980s....
But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging
Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants....
Muhammed: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary. Many observers stereotype Islam and its scripture as...
Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942
Men at War takes an intimate look at the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, which was formed in Victoria in 1940 as Australia entered the Second World War. In 1941 and...
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the...
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
"An absorbing account of romantics enchanted by Kiplingesque myths and the Lawrence of Arabia legend, who cynically harboured the self-contradictory ambition of democratizing the Arab world and Iran while arrogating...
SAS: Secret War: Operation Storm in the Middle East
In 1970 the SAS was called in to support the Sultan of Oman's armed forces in their bitter struggle against a Communist-backed insurrection. The task in hand was not to...
A Choice Of Enemies: America Confronts The Middle East
The United States is locked into three prolonged conflicts without much hope of early resolution. Iran is pursuing a nuclear programme; the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein has...
The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom
A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose...
The Prophet
"My all-time favorite collection of poems . . . Gibran's poetry always roots me in my humanity." --Rupi Kaur, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Milk and Honey, The...
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition
The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern...
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern
An exciting, iconoclastic history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire, published for the centenaries of many significant WW1 events The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume...
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle
A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle Ages In this highly original and enjoyable book, Christopher Tyerman focuses...
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920
The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War Eugene Rogan's remarkable book recreates one of the most important but poorly...
The Marsh Arabs
New to Black Classics for this Classic Travel Book, with a new introduction by Jon Lee Anderson During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred...
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities and histories in violent collision Milad is five years old and excited for his school...
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire
The definitive biography of Saladin. Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in...
A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics ''The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion.' The Christian and Muslim empires of...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering,...
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel,
'Excellent ... A detailed, even-handed account of the world's most intractable and damaging political dispute' Sunday Times Ever since the Ottoman Empire was defeated and British colonial rule began in...