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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium
A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks,...
Keep It Zesty: A Celebration of Lebanese Flavors & Culture from Edy's
A Favorite Cookbook of Summer 2024 by Food & Wine * Most Anticipated Cookbook of 2024 by Food Network and Epicurious"By sharing his food, Edy shares every beautiful part of...
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
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
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...
Irgun: Revisionist Zionism, 1931-1948
In October 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services described the Irgun Tsvai Leumi - National Military Organization - as 'an underground, quasi-military organisation with headquarters in Palestine ... fanatical...
Islamic Arms and Armor: in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A lushly illustrated survey of exquisitely crafted weapons and armor from the Islamic world, which display extraordinary artistry and opulence From its origins in the 7th century, armor and weaponry...
Women and Peace in the Islamic World: Gender, Agency and Influence
How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world? This question is the predominant focus for global analysis today, but its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social...
Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs
A sweeping survey-the first of its kind-of the artistic, cultural, and technological achievements of the vast Seljuq empire Rising from humble origins as Turkic tribesman, the powerful and culturally prolific...
Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World: The Economics of Sex
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 Middle Bronze Age IIA Cemetery at Gesher: Final Report, AASOR 62
Includes 164 b/w figures and 18 tables. Gesher is a small Middle Bronze Age IIA cemetery site located in the central Jordan Valley in Israel. Initial excavations in 1986-1987 indicated...
The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1 the
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...
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...
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and
A myth-shattering view of the medieval Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations, which preceded-and enabled-the European Renaissance. The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West....
Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East
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
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 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
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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
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,...
The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition
Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world--a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the...
Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization?From Mecca to
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
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...
Crowds and Sultans: Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
During the fifteenth century, the Mamluk sultanate that had ruled Egypt and Syria since 1249-50 faced a series of sustained economic and political challenges to its rule, from the effects...
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS
In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the northern city of Kobani. In LONG...
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...
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...
Jassim the Leader: Founder of Qatar
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...
The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran
A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn't be, therefore, that...
A DIAMOND IN THE DESERT: Behind the Scenes in the World's Richest City
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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...
The Palace of Forty Pillars
'Davoudian is an enchanting and intriguing new voice' Sunday Times'In this formally radical debut, Armen Davoudian shows how rhyme enacts longing for a homeland left behind; how meter sings to...
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...
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice
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 Wide World: An epic novel of family fortune, twisted secrets and
ONE OF THE TIMES' FAVOURITE NOVELS OF 2023'The Wide World is one of his best . . . Compellingly plotted, stuffed with great characters, thought-provokingly situated in history - honestly,...
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East
It is in the Middle East that the U. S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. The...
The Wide World: An epic novel of family fortune, twisted secrets and
ONE OF THE TIMES' FAVOURITE NOVELS OF 2023'The Wide World is one of his best . . . Compellingly plotted, stuffed with great characters, thought-provokingly situated in history - honestly,...
SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story
'An incredible story, and so well told' Bear Grylls'A must read. Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.' Billy BillinghamThere were three patrols...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
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
"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...
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...
SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story
'An incredible story, and so well told' Bear Grylls'A must read. Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.' Billy BillinghamThere were three patrols...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
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....
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...
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 Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
When Emma Sky, an intrepid young British woman, volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, she had little idea what she was letting herself in for....
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...