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Early Ottoman Art: the Legacy of the Emirates
This travel guide and survey to Islamic art, architecture and culture in Tunisia shows the country's treasures displayed within their historical and cultural context. It includes up-to-date information, detailed descriptions...
Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine
As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the border.He couldn't have...
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control...
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS 2024'As epic as it is engaging' Tom Holland'Jaunty, highly informative and ultimately sobering' New York Review of Books'A fine book... Leon McCarron's...
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?
Since the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, the Nakba (or 'disaster' as the Palestinians call it), there have been many opportunities to move towards peace and equality...
Home Front: A heart-wrenching exploration of love and war from the
An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war. Kristin Hannah's Home Front is a provocative and timely portrait...
Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity
Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant...
Dark Music: The gripping new thriller from the author of THE GIRL IN
A gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB"A nerve-racking political thriller with the most exciting detective duo in a long time. Bring on...
In the Streets of Tehran: Woman. Life. Freedom.
INSIDE IRAN'S NEW REVOLUTIONI've stopped pulling up my scarf to cover my hair when I pass by the guards. I knowthat nothing can stop one of them from raising his...
The Ruins of Us
More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying Abdullah Baylani, Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife, beautiful Palestinian Isra. The discovery plunges the...
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths
A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals...
Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art
The modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic - hence the focus on calligraphy and veiled women. At...
The Political Ideology of Hamas: A Grassroots Perspective
Hamas is typically portrayed in the West as nothing more than a terrorist organisation. Yet as Michael Irving Jensen discovers, it also provides medical clinics, kindergartens, schools, elderly care and...
Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration...
Dead Sea Level: Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in [...]
In the nineteenth century The Dead Sea and the Tigris-Euphrates river system had great political significance: the one as a possible gateway for a Russian invasion of Egypt, the other...
To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...
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 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...
Spice Road: the absolutely explosive epic YA fantasy romance set in an Arabian-inspired land
Author: Maiya Ibrahim, University of Technology Sydney with a Bachelor of LawsFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 230mm, 620g, 496 pagesPublished: Hodder & Stoughton, United Kingdom, 2023The first book in an epic...
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...
Doing Business in the Middle East: A cultural and practical guide for all business professionals
This new and updated book is necessary reading for all professionals working in the Middle East and North Africa, it includes:- The practical impact of Islam on business- Safety and...
Winter in Tabriz
Gripping and atmospheric, Winter in Tabriz tells the story of four young people living in 1970s Iran during the months immediately prior to the revolution, and the choices they have...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...
Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love
Author: 'Abdallah ibn Sbayyil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the...
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...
A History of the Arab Peoples: Updated Edition
Author: Malise Ruthven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples...
Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters from the War Zone
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
Author: Matthew Teller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Original and illuminating ... what a good book this is' - Jonathan Dimbleby 'A love letter to the people of the...
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...
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...
The Middle East: 2000 Years Of History From The Rise Of Christianity to the Present Day
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Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War
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The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
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The Commanders
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Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
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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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In Baghdad: A reporter's war
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Running the War in Iraq
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The Land of Blood and Honey: The Rise of Modern Israel
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Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...
Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History
Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...
The Trap: terrorism, heroism and everything in between
Author: Alan Gibbons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Terrorism, heroism and everything in between... THE TRAP is a teen thriller about espionage, a missing brother and the...
The Palomar Cookbook: Modern Israeli Cuisine
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Author: Layo Paskin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Modern Israeli recipes influenced by flavors from Southern Spain, North Africa, and the Levant The Michelin Bib Gourmand-winning London restaurant The...
Bethlehem- Biography of a Town
Author: Nicholas Blincoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an...