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Medusa of the Roses: 'A powerful debut ... unflinching and bold'

Medusa of the Roses: 'A powerful debut ... unflinching and bold'

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Anjir and Zal have been together ever since they first knew what love was. But living in Iran, the two men must keep their relationship hidden, potentially on pain of...
The Thinking Heart: On Israel and Palestine

The Thinking Heart: On Israel and Palestine

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A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier? *Winner of...
Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons: Enchanting dishes from the Middle East,

Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons: Enchanting dishes from the Middle East,

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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...
Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of

Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of

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May 6, 1986: Nick Popaditch arrives at the Receiving Barracks, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California. April 9, 2003: An AP photographer captures a striking image seen around the...
The Road to Armageddon: The Last Years of the Crusader Kingdom of

The Road to Armageddon: The Last Years of the Crusader Kingdom of

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The Third Crusade of Richard the Lionheart is well known but the build-up to it less so. The years that led up to the Battle of Hattin in 1187 is...
Petra

Petra

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An established guide to the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. It gives an account of the city's history since classical times, its buildings and monuments, the latest archaeological findings...
The 8.55 To Baghdad

The 8.55 To Baghdad

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Andrew Eames is an adventurous, insightful and sympathetic observer who sets out to travel from London to Baghdad by train, following the route of the old Orient Express. Interwoven through...
Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq

Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq

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Muqtada al-Sadr's men are killing more British troops than any other group in the world today. Cleric, militia leader and fiercely anti-American politician, Muqtada's combination of nationalism and religious fervour...
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of

Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of

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"Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters."- New York Times Book Review This...
Blind White Fish in Persia

Blind White Fish in Persia

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This book gives an account of a small Oxford University expedition to Persia in 1950 to bring back specimens of a fish, allegedly white and sightless, which was said to...
From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man's Middle Eastern Odyssey

From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man's Middle Eastern Odyssey

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A Second Edition of Thomas Friedman's stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award. 'If you're only going to read one book on the Middle...
Journey of a Thousand Storms: A Refugee's story

Journey of a Thousand Storms: A Refugee's story

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In Journey of a Thousand Storms Kooshyar Karimi, author of Leila's Secret, tells his gripping personal story of surviving prison in Iran and life as a refugee before finding success...
Death as Way of Life: Israel Ten Years After Oslo

Death as Way of Life: Israel Ten Years After Oslo

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A Personal Chronicle of the Last Ten Years from a Leading Voice of Israeli DissentWhat went wrong after Oslo? How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? How has the violence...
Dubai: Gilded Cage

Dubai: Gilded Cage

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In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study...
The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis

The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis

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Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than...
Arabesque (Deluxe)

Arabesque (Deluxe)

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Greg Malouf is widely admired as one of Australia's most innovative and influential chefs. His passion for the food of his Lebanese heritage, combined with his extensive travels, have led...
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S.

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S.

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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie. "An amazingly detailed account of fighting in...
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria

No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria

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From the first rumblings of dissent in 2011, No Turning Back shows the unravelling of a nation: peaceful protests in Damascus collapsing into violence, families on both sides shattered by...
Maman and Me: Recipes from Our Iranian American Family

Maman and Me: Recipes from Our Iranian American Family

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A gorgeous cookbook filled with 78 delicious cook-at-home Iranian American recipes from beloved mother-and-daughter duo Roya Shariat and Gita Sadeh. You will fall in love with Roya Shariat and her...
Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond

Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond

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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...
Maman and Me: Recipes from Our Iranian American Family

Maman and Me: Recipes from Our Iranian American Family

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A gorgeous cookbook filled with 78 delicious cook-at-home Iranian American recipes from beloved mother-and-daughter duo Roya Shariat and Gita Sadeh. You will fall in love with Roya Shariat and her...
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

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President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three decades, as president of the United States and as founder of The...
Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America

Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America

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Ehud Barak's election as Prime Minister of Israel on 17th May 1999 and his determination to conclude a peace deal with the Palestinians inspired both Israeli voters and the international...
Love In A Torn Land

Love In A Torn Land

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True story of the bride of a Kurdish freedom fighter caught up in Saddam's chemical attacks, by the bestselling author of the Princess trilogy and Mayada- Daughter of Iraq Bestselling...
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity

Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity

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"The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in a real-world game of thrones."...
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review

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A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was...
The House of the Mosque

The House of the Mosque

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Welcome to the house of the mosque . . . Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on...
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence

Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence

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***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner*** In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism...
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S.

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S.

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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie. "An amazingly detailed account of fighting in...
From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth

From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth

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This book describes life in an assimilated German-Jewish family before World War I. It is a book peopled with such notable figures as S.Y. Agnmon, S.H. Bergman, Walter Benjamin, S.D....
Authors Take Sides On Iraq

Authors Take Sides On Iraq

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This book records the contemporary opinions and reactions of over 170 distinguished authors to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the...
Green Zone: Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Green Zone: Imperial Life in the Emerald City

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Lion: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody life' ANTHONY RICHES

Lion: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody life' ANTHONY RICHES

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How Israel Lost: The Four Questions

How Israel Lost: The Four Questions

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Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town

Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town

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Bread and Henna: an engaging travel narrative relating a social anthropologist's experiences of eighteen months living among the women of a small mountain town in Yemen during the early 1980s....
Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior

Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior

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Syria's Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town

Syria's Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town

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Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Yet it lives in another world. Besieged by Syrian government forces since 2011, its people were...
But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging

But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging

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Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants....
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires

Muhammed: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires

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In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary. Many observers stereotype Islam and its scripture as...
Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942

Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942

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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 Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

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How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the...
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East

America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East

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"An absorbing account of romantics enchanted by Kiplingesque myths and the Lawrence of Arabia legend, who cynically harboured the self-contradictory ambition of democratizing the Arab world and Iran while arrogating...
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation

Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation

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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...
A Choice Of Enemies: America Confronts The Middle East

A Choice Of Enemies: America Confronts The Middle East

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The United States is locked into three prolonged conflicts without much hope of early resolution. Iran is pursuing a nuclear programme; the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein has...
Lion: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody life' ANTHONY RICHES

Lion: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody

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Discover the rise and fall of the world's greatest empire in the stunning first instalment of The Golden Age, an epic new series from the nation's finest historical novelist After...
The Persian Expedition

The Persian Expedition

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Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who...
The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom

The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom

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A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose...