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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division
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A Short History of the Middle East: From Ancient Empires to Islamic State
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Generation Freedom
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We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World
Author: Alex Rowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so...
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...
The Slopes Of Lebanon
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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...
The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey 1837-1855
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Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century
Author: Julian Sayarer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDEN By...
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...
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...
Give War a Chance
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Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia
Author: Natalie Koch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from...
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...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Paperback 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two
Author: Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 372 Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for...
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One
Author: Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for...
The Joshua Generation: Israeli Occupation and the Bible
Author: Rachel Havrelock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 How a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern Israel No biblical text has been...
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...
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and...
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 Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
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Author: Marc David Baer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire...
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 Boys from Baghdad: From the Foreign Legion to the Killing Fields of Iraq
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Gulf War One
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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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EXPERT WITNESS
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Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
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Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
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...
A Private War
Author: Marie Brenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan. The book that inspired the...