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Monuments of Syria: A Historical Guide

Monuments of Syria: A Historical Guide

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My Life as a Jew

My Life as a Jew

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Ben-Gurion: A Political Life

Ben-Gurion: A Political Life

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Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World

Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World

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The Multiple Identities of the Middle East

The Multiple Identities of the Middle East

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The New Middle East

The New Middle East

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Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' - Daily Telegraph

Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' - Daily

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A SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR'Monumental and vividly imagined . . . a fitting tribute to a city that has survived, changed and grown for...
We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World

We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab

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'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The...
Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Teach Yourself

Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Teach Yourself

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Understand the Israeli Palestinian Conflict is the essential guide to one of the world s most distressing confrontations. Putting the present situation into its broader context and examining all perspectives,...
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul

Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice (SIGNED)

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An FT Best Book of the Year'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he...
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

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Every Rising Sun: A spellbinding reimagining of The Thousand and One Nights

Every Rising Sun: A spellbinding reimagining of The Thousand and One

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'Lyrically imaginative . . . enthralling' GUARDIANBefore she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who saw something she shouldn't have.She told the...
The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization

The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its

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Marathon--one of history's most pivotal battles. Its very name evokes images of almost superhuman courage, endurance, and fighting spirit. But until now, the story of what happened at Marathon has...
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End

The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End

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Islam at the Gates: How Christendom Defeated the Ottoman Turks

Islam at the Gates: How Christendom Defeated the Ottoman Turks

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The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

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An engaging biography that offers a new perspective on one of the most influential figures of the Crusades In 1187, Saladin marched triumphantly into Jerusalem, ending decades of struggle against...
The Founding of Israel: The Journey to a Jewish Homeland from Abraham to the Holocaust

The Founding of Israel: The Journey to a Jewish Homeland from Abraham

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Here (In the State if Israel) their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance, and gave the...
Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World: The Economics of Sex in the Late Antique and Medieval Middle East

Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World: The Economics of Sex

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This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale...
The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1 the Trucial States and United Arab Emirates 1951-1980

The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1 the

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This book provides an overview of the military forces, and their antecedents, of the Arabian Gulf States. Most were British Protected States, resulting in their armed forces being heavily influenced...
Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East

Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East

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In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey. Crassus' defeat and death and the...
Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory

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The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first century, but what do we actually know of the man who condemned Jesus of Nazareth...
Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War

Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War

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Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut. Utilizing unconventional sources and interviews with...
War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East: Military Violence in Light of Cosmology and History

War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East: Military Violence in Light of Cosmology and History

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Dwelling in Conflict: Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging

Dwelling in Conflict: Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging

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Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea: A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents

Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea: A Study of the Bar Kokhba

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This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c. 63 B.C.E. to 136 C.E.) is based on Michael Wise's extensive study of 145 Hebrew,...
Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization?From Mecca to Dubai

Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization?From Mecca to

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Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes...
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser

Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the

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The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun's tomb, close on the heels of Britain's declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline...
Jassim the Leader: Founder of Qatar

Jassim the Leader: Founder of Qatar

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Qatar in the 1830s was a fragmented region, a desert peninsula without security or borders, where coastal communities depended on pearling for survival, while constantly at the mercy of tribal...
A DIAMOND IN THE DESERT: Behind the Scenes in the World's Richest City

A DIAMOND IN THE DESERT: Behind the Scenes in the World's Richest City

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What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?

What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?

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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...
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul

Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice

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An FT Best Book of the Year'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

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WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures....
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century

Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century

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"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The...
Gods, Rites, Rituals and Religion of Ancient Egypt

Gods, Rites, Rituals and Religion of Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths

Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths

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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...
Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914

Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914

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"A well written, informed, and at times exciting account" (Choice) of the field of Egyptology, part two of Thompson's bestselling monumental history, new in paperback The discovery of ancient Egypt...
These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East

These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire [...]

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'Sabrina Mahfouz is a tidal wave of truth swallowing the banks of empire with a torrent of information which will not be damned' Lemn Sissay'A bold, brave look at the...
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

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'Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi' - Hisham Matar,...
In Search of the Phoenicians

In Search of the Phoenicians

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Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist? The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation....
Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change

Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change

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The surprise election of Hasan Rouhani in 2013 has refocused attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the Ahmadinejad presidency. With comparisons being...
The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for Reform in Revolutionary Iran

The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for [...]

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The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9. Yet at the time...
Ottoman Dress and Design in the West: A Visual History of Cultural Exchange

Ottoman Dress and Design in the West: A Visual History of [...]

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Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the...
Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul: Nation and Community in the Era of Reform

Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul: Nation and Community [...]

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During the late Ottoman period (1856-1922), a time of contestation about imperial policy toward minority groups, music helped the Ottoman Greeks in Istanbul define themselves as a distinct cultural group....
Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan

Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan

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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...
Childhood in Ancient Egypt

Childhood in Ancient Egypt

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Author: Dr. Amandine Marshall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 298 A groundbreaking account of how the ancient Egyptians perceived children and childhood, from the Predynastic period to the end of...
Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

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Author: Guy de la Bedoyere Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 A vivid story of an astonishing period in ancient Egypt's history--1550 BC to 1295 BC--that tears away the gold...
Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan

Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan

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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...
The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization

The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization

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For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and...