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Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond
Jointly published by Macmillan and the State Library of Victoria in association with the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this book accompanies an exhibition of original manuscripts relating to Persian poetry and...
The Persians
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 'Enormously entertaining' THE TIMES 'The word-of-mouth breakout' STYLIST 'As funny as it is moving' GUARDIAN 'A joy of a debut' DAVID MITCHELL...
Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942
Men at War takes an intimate look at the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, which was formed in Victoria in 1940 as Australia entered the Second World War. In 1941 and...
The Marsh Arabs
New to Black Classics for this Classic Travel Book, with a new introduction by Jon Lee Anderson During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In Baghdad: A reporter's war
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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...
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse. This was the start of the Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last...
Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land
A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness...
Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood
The story of the medieval world's most extraordinary organisations, the Assassins and the Templars The Assassins and the Templars are two of history's most legendary groups. One was a Shi'ite...
Lebanese Baking: More Than 100 Recipes for Sweet and Savory Baked
Maureen Abood's authoritative cookbook celebrates the delicious baked goods of Lebanon with traditional recipes and Lebanese American innovations. Indulge in Baklawa Diamonds, Triple Chocolate Baklawa, and even Baklawa Cheesecake. Treat...
One Bullet Away: The making of a US Marine Officer
In 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career trajectory of high school to college to white collar job. Then he went to a lecture by a...
The World of the Crusades
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious...
The Crusader States
The only full account of life and culture in the twelfth-century crusader states, where religious battles raged and civilizations collided When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from...
Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land
A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness...
The Story of Tutankhamun: An Intimate Life of the Boy who Became King
A lively new biography of Tutankhamun-published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb's modern discovery The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter...
What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the
An ambitious revisionist history of the modern Middle East What Really Went Wrong offers a fresh and incisive assessment of American foreign policy's impact on the history and politics of...
Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley...
Zionism: The Concise History
The story of Zionism, the Jewish movement of national liberation that led to the founding of modern Israel, is animated by leaders possessed with rare vision and political genius. It...
We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab
'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...
Iraq: Then and Now: A Guide to the Country and Its People
This guide responds to huge public interest in both Iraq and its people and is less a travel guide and more of an objective account of Saddam's regime as a...
Task Force Black: The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret
The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' - Daily Mail Soon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand,...
Daring to Drive: A gripping account of one woman's home-grown courage
THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN. FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2018 UN PEACE PRIZE THE GUARDIAN: 'MANAL AL-SHARIF BECAME...
The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W.
The Endgame is a gripping and authoritative account of the secret military and political effort to pull Iraq from the precipice of full-scale civil war. The book fuses unrivalled access...
Iranian Architecture: A Visual History
Iran, the former Persia, lies at an interface between West-East and North-South. Several early trade routes crossed the country, connecting Asia, Africa and Europe, and the cultural wealth and scenic...
Jerusalem
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The book titled Jerusalem by the author Nachum T. Gidal. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Arafat: The Biography
Based on hundreds of interviews with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, including Arafat himself, this book examines his once triumphant transition from terrorist to statesman, and his subsequent marginalization following...
Protector
'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid life...I'm blown away' - Anthony Riches. From the nation's finest historical novelist comes the second instalment in the Athenian series Themistocles stands...
The Holy and the Broken: A cry for Israeli-Palestinian peace from a
When dehumanisation and destruction become the norm, the cycle must be broken. For over twenty years, Ittay Flescher has worked as an educator, journalist and peacebuilder in Melbourne and Jerusalem....
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition
A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture. Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from...
Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons: Enchanting dishes from the Middle East,
Discover a treasure trove of enchanting dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa, in this beautiful new edition of the original gem at the heart of bestselling food...
History of the Arab Peoples
A History of the Arab Peoples covers not only political history, but also culture, society, economy and thought, in a work of profound and lasting importance. A distillation of the...
A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
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How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle
A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle Ages In this highly original and enjoyable book, Christopher Tyerman focuses...
The Falcon of Sparta
Based on one of history's most epic stories of adventure, Conn Iggulden's latest bestseller pits Persians against Spartans in a legendary battle In the Ancient World, one army was feared...
The Monk of Mokha
From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect the ancient art of Yemeni coffee - while escaping a terrifying...
Chronicles of the Crusades
A new edition of these two French accounts written by soldiers who took part in the Crusades The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint...
Damascus
WINNER - Best Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us...
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
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Every Rising Sun: A spellbinding reimagining of The Thousand and One
'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...
Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-45
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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...
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...