Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition
$22.95 Add to cartThis landmark book probes Muslims’ attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit,
- Series: Princeton Classics #11
- Author: Lewis, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0691160872
- Language: English
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A Dreidel in Time: A New Spin on an Old Tale
$8.99 Read moreDevorah and Benjamin are excited to open their Hanukkah present from Bubbe and Zayde, which turns out to be an ugly old dreidel. It’s a big disappointment–until the dreidel transports them out of mod
- Author: Berneger, Marcia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1541552652
- Language: English
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Love’s Ripening: Rumi on the Heart’s Journey
$21.95 Add to cartLove is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207-1273), the greatest of the … [more below]
- Author: Helminski, Kabir Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1590307593
- Language: English
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Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent Into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death
$22.00 Read more“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 is the story of a sm- Author: Frederick, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0307450767
- Language: English
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Love Sugar Magic: A Mixture of Mischief
$7.99 Add to cartAnna Meriano’s unforgettable family of brujas returns for one more serving of amor, az?ar, and magia, in this breakout series that’s been called “charming and delectably sweet.” (Zoraida C?dova, award
- Series: Love Sugar Magic #3
- Author: Meriano, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0062915916
- Language: English
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How Many Donkeys?: An Arabic Counting Tale
$6.99 Read more2010 Best English Language Children’s Book, Sharjah International Book Fair
Jouha gets confused counting his donkeys while leading them to market. Jouha is loading his donkeys with dates to sell at th- Author: MacDonald, Margaret Read
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0807534250
- Language: English
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Lebanon
$28.99 Read moreThis new, thoroughly updated third edition of Bradt’s Lebanon remains the only English-language guide dedicated to the smallest country on the Asian continent. Comprehensively updated throughout to re… [more below]
- Author: Doyle, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 178477698X
- Language: English
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Two Truths and a Lie: Histories and Mysteries
$12.99 Read moreCrazy-but-true stories about history, geography, and human achievement make this acclaimed nonfiction series perfect for fans of curiosities and wonders. A fun way for middle graders to explore ways t
- Author: Paquette, Ammi-Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0062418874
- Language: English
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Dare the Sea: Stories
$24.00 Read moreDebut short-story collection in English from acclaimed fiction writer Ali Hosseini, named a Favorite Short Story Collection of 2023 by the Chicago Review of Books
The stories in Dare the Sea explore- Author: Hosseini, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0810146444
- Language: English
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Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin
$18.99 Read moreAuthor Tracy Newman and illustrator Abigail Halpin’s picture-book biography of violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman will inspire young readers to follow the melody within themselves.
A Schneider Family Book- Author: Newman, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1419741101
- Language: English
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What Will You Be?
$19.99 Read moreFrom Yamile Saied M?ndez, acclaimed author of Where Are You From?, comes a stunning lyrical picture book that tells the story of one girl who is always asked a simple question: What will you be when y
- Author: Méndez, Yamile Saied
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0062839950
- Language: English
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The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Volume 2 – Showdown in the North-West
$29.95 Read more“Helion’s picture-packed volume sports dozens of rare photos. Seventeen color vehicle plates, three aircraft profiles, unit heraldry, and uniform art survey the conflict’s modeling possibilities.” — … [more below]
- Series: Asia@War
- Author: Rikhye, Ravi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1914059344
- Language: English
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The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story
$8.99 Read morePoor Maha Her jealous stepmother makes her do all the housework while her selfish stepsister lazes about.
Since Maha’s father is away fishing most of the time, there is no one to help or comfort her- Author: Hickox, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0823415139
- Language: English
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Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
$35.00 Read moreIn the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by a vast Islamic power, the centuries-old Ottoman Empire…. [more below]
- Author: Rutledge, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0863569501
- Language: English
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
$20.00 Read moreFrom the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.
“- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Pamuk, Orhan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2006
- ISBN10: 1400033888
- Language: English
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The Long Way Back
$19.95 Read moreThe Long Way Back tells the story of four generations of the same family living in an old house in the Bab al-Shaykh area of Baghdad. Through exquisite layering of the overlapping worlds of the charac… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Al-Takarli, Fuad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 07 2007
- ISBN10: 9774160924
- Language: English
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The Theocrat
$18.95 Read moreThe Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history’s most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah (“the ruler by order of God”), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth ce… [more below]
- Series: Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
- Author: Himmich, Bensalem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2009
- ISBN10: 977416251X
- Language: English
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The President’s Gardens
$16.99 Read moreIn this extraordinary novel by heralded Iraqi author Muhsin Al-Ramli, One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner against the backdrop of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
“A profoundly moving investigati… [more below]- Author: Al-Ramli, Muhsin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0857056808
- Language: English
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Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
$31.95 Read more***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***
During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba – which t
- Author: Allan, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0745342914
- Language: English
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Memo and the Unexpected Gift
$17.99 Read moreThere’s something unusual about the kitten Memo finds in his yard.
Memo lives in a small cottage with his grandmother. But his grandma can’t see very well anymore, and she falls asleep all the time. Me
- Author: Şeran, Funda Özlem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1662512929
- Language: English
