Arab & Middle Eastern
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Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
$30.00 Read moreAn intimate history of the Afghan war–and the young Afghans whose dreams it enabled and dashed.
No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the uph- Author: Rasmussen, Sune Engel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0374609942
- Language: English
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Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman
$20.00 Read moreA Palestinian Woman’s dazzling exploration of heritage, gender and the idea of home.
I may not be brave enough, but somewhere deep inside of me there is, perhaps, the kernel of someone who is. That- Author: Nuseibeh, N. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 162371687X
- Language: English
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Land of Tears: A Journey of Language, Loyalty, & War from an Iranian-American Translator Serving with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan
$28.95 Add to cart- Author: Roham, Sanjar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798991173100
- Language: English
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Land of Tears: A Journey of Language, Loyalty, & War from an Iranian-American Translator Serving with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan
$18.95 Add to cartSanjar Rohām, an Iranian-American, was an in-demand successful business consultant in Los Angeles before the 2008 crash of the U.S. economy compelled him to rethink his career choices after disco
- Author: Roham, Sanjar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988745662
- Language: English
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Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake
$27.00 Add to cartA blazing new talent’s hilarious memoir about coming of age and coming out in Pakistan, moving to America, looking for love, and falling in love with himself along the way
Manboobs is: “wickedly funny- Author: Aijazuddin, Komail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1419773844
- Language: English
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A Rebel in Gaza: A Daughter of Rafah Speaks
$18.00 Add to cart“Gaza has always been rebellious… stubborn, addictive. I’m her daughter, and I look like her.”
Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the face
- Author: Alghoul, Asmaa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660798
- Language: English
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The Shah
$26.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the last Shah of Iran, tracing his dramatic rise and fall and his role in the creation of the contemporary Islamic Republic.
Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he- Author: Milani, Abbas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0230340385
- Language: English
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The Lifta Hamideh Ismail Legacy
$13.27 Add to cartSue Hamideh’s heartwarming tribute to her late husband and his remarkable family-from its roots in Lifta, a tiny Palestinian village outside Jerusalem, to Texas, where much of the family eventually se… [more below]
- Author: Hamideh, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1958640379
- Language: English
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Lejos de Egipto
$25.95 Read moreThis richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty … [more below]
- Author: Aciman, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 8417977759
- Language: Spanish
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The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom
$19.99 Read moreThis passionate autobiography–at once history lesson, prison memoir, metaphysical inquiry, love story, and cry for justice–provides insights into the Israeli occupation and the struggle of the Pales… [more below]
- Author: Srour, Nasser Abu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1635423872
- Language: English
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It’s Not What You Think: An American Woman in Saudi Arabia
$26.99 Read moreFrom the author of Threading My Prayer Rug, an eye-opening view of life in Saudi Arabia.
It’s Not What You Think is a wry, incisive account of working in Saudi Arabia that offers insight into that insu… [more below]- Author: Rehman, Sabeeha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1956763023
- Language: English
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A Rift in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle
$16.99 Add to cartAn engrossing family memoir that shines a light on Palestine’s history, offering a wise, sobering view of how radically conditions there have changed since the late Ottoman Empire, from the award-winn… [more below]
- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1635425212
- Language: English
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Two Hundred Miles From Baghdad: Cultures, Conflicts, and the Lost Art of Hitchhiking
$18.00 Add to cartBy planes, trains, and automobiles, journalist Lou Salome has hitched his way through some of the most interesting – and volatile – places on Earth.
In September 1958, Lou Salome hurried past Barney Mc
- Author: Salome, Louis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 195866930X
- Language: English
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Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine
$17.95 Add to cartSummoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer t… [more below]
- Series: Arab American Writing
- Author: Shihab, Aziz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 081560968X
- Language: English
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
$18.99 Add to cartA Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.
My mother, Meher, believed that we choose our lives for the lessons w
- Author: Farah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1739355024
- Language: English
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
$9.99 Add to cartA Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.
My mother, Meher, believed that we choose our lives for the lessons w
- Author: Farah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1739355008
- Language: English
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The Lifta Hamideh Ismail Legacy
$26.60 Add to cartSue Hamideh’s heartwarming tribute to her late husband and his remarkable family-from its roots in Lifta, a tiny Palestinian village outside Jerusalem, to Texas, where much of the family eventually se… [more below]
- Author: Hamideh, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1958640387
- Language: English
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From Beirut to America
$11.99 Add to cart“gives readers hope and encouragement that when one has such strong conviction about a particular task or goal, nothing can stand in the way.” –BookTrib review.
“The writing style is warm and genuine.… [more below]- Author: Challita, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1088218903
- Language: English
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One More Mountain: Fleeing Iran for America
$32.99 Add to cartThis book is the inspirational true story of young man willing to risk it all.
Since the Islamic Revolution began in 1979, millions of Iranians have fled to Turkey seeking refuge from religious and pol
- Author: Nurdel, Mansur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 08 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987808603
- Language: English
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This Arab Life: A Generation’s Journey into Silence
$22.65 Add to cartThis Arab Life is an intimate and honest exploration of a rising Arab generation’s descent into silence. Personal and panoramic, granular and sweeping, the book offers a raw account of the unremitting
- Author: Ghandour, Amal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1954805268
- Language: English
