Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco That Pushed America and Its World to the Brink
$30.00 Read moreIn recognition of the 10th anniversary of the attack in Benghazi, a noted Libya expert and eyewitness to the attack provides a startling reconsideration of one of the defining controversies of our era
- Author: Chorin, Ethan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 030682972X
- Language: English
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Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartYour Blue and the Quiet Lament records the textures of grief after a cousin’s murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative o… [more below]
- Series: Walt McDonald First-Book Poetry
- Author: Safi, Lubna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1682831396
- Language: English
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The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against Isis
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS.
The Spymaster of Baghdad tells the dr
- Author: Coker, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0062947419
- Language: English
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Egyptian Mythology: Explore The Mysterious Ancient Civilisation of Egypt, The Myths, Legends, History, Gods, Goddesses & More That Have Fa
$19.99 Add to cartDrama, death, glory and love flowed through the blood of the Egyptians under the watchful eyes of their Gods & Goddesses…
Ancient Egypt was one of the greatest & most powerful civilizations in the w
- Author: Visconti, Sofia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: December 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1913397998
- Language: English
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The Heart of Lebanon
$44.95 Add to cartWhen celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the Lebanese countryside, from the rising mountains to the
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Allen, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0815611293
- Language: English
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The Voice of Sheila Chandra
$17.95 Read moreTitled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only… [more below]
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 194857912X
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years’ War: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Notable Conflicts of the Middle Ages and in European History and the Life of Jo
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Hundred Years’ War, then keep reading…
Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Hundred Years’ War: A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts B
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481333
- Language: English
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Short Stories in Arabic for Intermediate Learners
$14.99 Add to cartAn unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for adult and young adult learners.
“Olly’s top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what … [more below]- Author: Richards, Olly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1529302536
- Language: English
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Y.Z. Kami
$90.00 Add to cartOver the past thirty years, Y.Z. Kami has built a resounding oeuvre that spans both portraiture and abstraction, using direct observation, poetic reference, and repeated geometries to create poignant
- Author: Kami, Y. Z.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 885723939X
- Language: English
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The Struggle for Palestine
$14.00 Add to cartLeading international solidarity activists offer insight into the ongoing struggle for Palestinian freedom and justice. Includes Anthony Arnove, Naseer Aruri, David Barsamian, Paul D’Amato, Phil Gaspe
- Author: Selfa, Lance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1931859000
- Language: English
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Language of War, Language of Peace: Palestine, Israel and the Search for Justice
$15.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli Palestine conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create – legal and cultural – tha
- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1781253765
- Language: English
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Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
$44.00 Add to cartIn this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America’s Special Operations Forces.
A… [more below]- Author: McRaven, William H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1538715538
- Language: English
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The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid
$17.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein provides “a brief, but powerful, meditation on the meaning… [more below]
- Author: Bardenwerper, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 150111784X
- Language: English
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I, Who Did Not Die
$22.00 Add to cartKhorramshahr, Iran, May 1982–It was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century, and Najah, a twenty-nine-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript, was face to face with a th… [more below]
- Author: Haftlang, Zahed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1682451682
- Language: English
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Soul Is Here for It’s Own Joy
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Bly, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 09 1999
- ISBN10: 088001475X
- Language: English
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History of Persia: An Enthralling Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Persian Empire and the Life of Cyrus the Great
$29.99 Add to cartTwo manuscripts in one book:
- The Persians: An Enthralling Guide to the History of Persia and the Persian Empire
- Cyrus the Great: The Enthralling Life of the Father of the Persian Empire
Throughout histo
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651866
- Language: English
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Unexpected Bride in the Promised Land: Journeys in Palestine and Israel
$19.95 Add to cartAfter hitchhiking from Paris to Jerusalem, Jordan in 1967, Iris Keltz had to wait three days for permission to cross a U.N. checkpoint into Jerusalem, Israel. That was enough time for this young Jewis
- Author: Keltz, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0986270695
- Language: English
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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
$17.99 Add to cartFatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as “enchanting” (The New York Times Book Review), “exubera… [more below]
- Author: Mernissi, Fatema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0743412435
- Language: English
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This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
$30.99 Add to cartA profoundly different way of looking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Reporting from Jerusalem for The New York Times and Fox News respectively, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, witnessed a decades-old
- Author: Myre, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0470550902
- Language: English
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The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels
$20.00 Add to cartHailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation’s most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757538
- Language: English
