Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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The Conference of the Birds: The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid Ud-Din Attar
$17.95 Add to cartA RICHLY-ILLUSTRATED MYSTICAL CLASSIC . NEW IN PAPERBACK. The Conference of the Birds is a twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem. The story of the quest for a king undertaken by the birds of the world… [more below]
- Author: Attar, Farid Ud-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1566569354
- Language: English
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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
$17.00 Add to cartA major New York Times bestseller by NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel–this riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen close up “should be r… [more below]
- Author: Engel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1451635125
- Language: English
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Crisis of Zionism
$23.99 Add to cartA deeply important book for anyone who cares about Israel.–President Bill Clinton
A probing, courageous, and timely book… Beinart offers a forceful exposition of American apprehensions about Israe- Author: Beinart, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1250026733
- Language: English
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The Lebanese Cookbook
$54.95 Read moreThe definitive book on Lebanese home cooking, featuring 500 authentic and delicious easy-to-make recipes
On the shores of the eastern Mediterranean and a gateway to the Middle East, Lebanon has long be
- Author: Hage, Salma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0714879096
- Language: English
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The Arabs: A History
$24.99 Read moreThe internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Atlantic — now updated to cover the latest developme… [more below]
- Author: Rogan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 046509421X
- Language: English
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Survey of Israel’s History Hardcover
$27.99 Add to cartClassic survey of Israel’s history, for anyone looking to understand the nation’s ancient past from a biblical perspective.
Since its first publication in 1970, A Survey of Israel’s History has establi
- Author: Wood, Leon J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: September 29 1986
- ISBN10: 031034770X
- Language: English
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The Road to Oxiana
$19.98 Add to cartIn 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan an… [more below]
- Author: Byron, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0195325605
- Language: English
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
$16.99 Add to cart“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”
–Miami Herald
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 006082218X
- Language: English
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The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea
$33.99 Add to cartShadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy’s merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world’s most undemocratic regions.
What happens- Author: Hamid, Shadi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0197579469
- Language: English
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The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master
$20.00 Add to cartAn authentic exploration of the real Rumi
As one of the world’s most loved poets, Rumi’s poems are celebrated for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are stripped of their mysti- Author: O’Dell, Emily Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1250261376
- Language: English
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Aramco Brat: How Arabia, Oil, Gold, and Tragedy Shaped My Life
$29.95 Add to cartFrom a Pittsburgh trailer park to Harvard Business School, a youth’s journey set in the turbulent Middle East spiked with tragedy, wrong turns, unforced errors, luck, espionage, and family love. Wheth
- Author: Howard, Richard P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 9798985227208
- Language: English
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Egyptian Yoga Volume 1: The Philosophy of Enlightenment
$26.65 Add to cart1. EGYPTIAN YOGA: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENLIGHTENMENT An original, fully illustrated work, including hieroglyphs, detailing the meaning of the Egyptian mysteries, tantric yoga, psycho-spiritual and physic… [more below]
- Author: Ashby, Muata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1884564011
- Language: English
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My Name Is Rachel Corrie
$16.95 Add to cart“Extraordinary power… Funny, passionate, bristling with idealism and luminously intelligent.” –TimeOut London
“You feel you have not just had a night at the theatre: you have encountered an extraord- Author: Corrie, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1559362960
- Language: English
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Why Intelligence Fails
$20.95 Add to cartThe U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that h
- Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- Author: Jervis, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0801478065
- Language: English
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Hezbollah: A Short History Updated and Expanded Third Edition
$19.95 Add to cartFeaturing a new prologue and conclusion and two new chapters on recent developments
With Hezbollah’s entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the p- Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics #69
- Author: Norton, Augustus Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180881
- Language: English
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Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire
$19.99 Add to cartIn this authoritative biography, historian John Man brings Saladin and his world to life with vivid detail in “a rollicking good story” (Justin Marozzi).
Saladin remains one of the most iconic figure- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825422
- Language: English
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In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
$24.99 Add to cartIn just over a hundred years–from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750–the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Afri… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Hoyland, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190618574
- Language: English
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Writing the Camp
$14.50 Add to cartPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPRING RECOMMENDATION 2021
Yousif M Qasmiyeh’s Writing The Camp is an exceptional, essential collection drawn from the poet’s experience of the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon. The
- Author: Qasmiyeh, Yousif M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: February 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1913642356
- Language: English
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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy–and how the West crushed it
When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationa
- Author: Thompson, Elizabeth F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148603
- Language: English
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King Tut. the Journey Through the Underworld. 40th Ed.
$35.00 Add to cartBuried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intri
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Vannini, Sandro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 3836584239
- Language: English
