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Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...
ISIS: A History
Author: Fawaz A. Gerges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and...
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...
Masters of the Pearl: A History of Qatar
Sheds new light on Qatar, a country that has previously defied explanationQatar is a country of spectacular contrasts: from pearl fishing, its main industry until the 1930s; to gas and...
Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941
Author: Hermann BuschlebFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 128 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019First English translation of a Geman account of Operation Crusader. The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged...
Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
Author: Amin Saikal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 An authoritative account of how and why the Islamic Republic has survived to become a critical player in the Middle East...
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
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Author: Tom Segev Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 816 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist "[A] fascinating biography . . . a masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled man...
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...
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...
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...
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
Author: Noa Tishby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A "fascinating and very moving" (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social...
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...
Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914
"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 [...]
'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...
Osman's Dream
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The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization
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...
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920
Author: Eugene Rogan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War Eugene Rogan's remarkable...
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
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'...
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...
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
'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,...
Childhood in Ancient Egypt
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...
From Babel to Dragomans
Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal), as "a towering figure among...
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he transformed the Afghan media landscape and...
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
Author: Raja Shehadeh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja....
In the Company of Heroes: The Inspiring Stories of Medal of Honor Recipients from America's Longest Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Author: James Kitfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An award-winning military journalist tells the amazing stories of twenty-five soldiers who've won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military...
Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans
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Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior
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Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
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Apeirogon: a novel about Israel, Palestine and shared grief, nominated for the 2020 Booker Prize
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The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery
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Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family ancestor...
Gods, Rites, Rituals and Religion of Ancient Egypt
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEA SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'Magnificent . . . Important and hugely readable' William Dalrymple, Financial Times'A wildly ambitious and entertainingly lurid history' James...
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
'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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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...
Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty
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
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...
Roman Syria
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Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
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ISIS: The State of Terror
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Tomb Treasures of the Late Middle Kingdom: The Archaeology of Female Burials
During the late Middle Kingdom (about 1850-1700 B.C.E.), ancient Egyptian women of high standing were interred with lavish ornamentation and carefully gathered possessions. Buried near the pyramids of kings, women...
The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives
Author: Tim Vivian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 390 Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi...