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Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKYIn this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting...
Christ's Associations: Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City
A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in...
The Excellence of the Arabs
A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrest In ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of Arab identity had begun to decline. In...
The Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters
Author: Ibrahim Abu LughodFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 210mm, 212g, 199 pagesPublished: Saqi Books, United Kingdom, 2011Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 suddenly exposed the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire...
The Sultan's Yemen: 19th Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule
Author: Caesar E. FarahFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2002In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting...
The Sultan's Yemen: 19th Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule
Author: Caesar E. FarahFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2002In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting...
Rick Stein: From Venice to Istanbul
Author: Rick SteinFormat: Hardback, 198mm x 255mm, 1434g, 320 pagesPublished: Ebury Publishing, United Kingdom, 2015This is a memorable food odyssey- journeying through an ancient landscape discovering great food, creating dishes...
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
Author: Robert FiskFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 820g, 672 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE'...
Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria
Author: George JreijeFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 194mm, 256g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 You are invited to the Alexandria Academy . . .Twelve-year-old Shad Hadid has never...
The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey 1837-1855
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The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two
Author: Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 372 Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for...
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One
Author: Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for...
The Excellence of the Arabs
Author: Ibn Qutaybah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity-its merits, values, and origins-at a time of political unrest...
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
Author: George Packer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The Assassins' Gate is the main entrance to the Green Zone, the fortified enclave of Saddam's former palaces that now houses...
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
Author: George Packer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The Assassins' Gate is the main entrance to the Green Zone, the fortified enclave of Saddam's former palaces that now houses...
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and...
Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink
Author: Ethan Chorin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Ten years after an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, cries...
Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny
Author: David Makovsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 At a time when the identity of Israel is more uncertain than at any moment since its modern founding, Be Strong...
The Lion House: The Coming of a King
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Author: Christopher de Bellaigue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era...
A Rebel's Journey: Mostafa Sho'aiyan and Revolutionary Theory in Iran
Author: Peyman Vahabzadeh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Following the 1953 coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Mossadeq and restored the rule of the Shah in Iran,...
The Holy War
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Jerusalem: The Endless Crusade
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Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq
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Give War a Chance
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The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq, 2006-2008
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Gulf War One
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The Tomb of God: Body of Jesus and the Solution to a 2, 000 Year Old Mystery
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Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with...
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City
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EXPERT WITNESS
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Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
Author: Jonathan Phillips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The riveting and definitive biography of the Islamic world's most famous military hero 'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One...
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World
Author: Frank McLynn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the...
The Egyptians: A Radical Story
Author: Jack Shenker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The essential book about Egypt and radical politics. Egypt is a nation in turmoil, caught in a cycle of...
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition
Author: Eugene Rogan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has...
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism
Author: Hassan Damluji Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world'...
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Author: Judith Herrin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
Author: Sean McMeekin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 An exciting, iconoclastic history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire, published for the centenaries of many significant...
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
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Author: Derek Leebaert (Georgetown University Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire...
Persepolis I & II
Author: Marjane Satrapi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and...
The Persian Expedition
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
The Monk of Mokha
Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect...
In A Time Of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt
Author: Emma Sky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American...
Chasing Smoke: Cooking over Fire Around the Levant
Author: Sarit Packer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The award-winning Honeys are back with more delicious dishes from the Middle East, and this time their focus is firmly on...
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
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Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 One of the great books in Western history and the very first work of non-fiction, in Tom Holland's compelling new...