Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations
$29.95 Add to cartWith characteristic rigor and readability, Avi Shlaim reflects on a range of key issues, transformations and personalities in the Israel-Palestine conflict. From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the 20… [more below]
- Author: Shlaim, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 08 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676560
- Language: English
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Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba
$39.95 Add to cartA unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a testament to the vibrancy of Palestinian society prior to occupation.
This book tells the story, in- Author: Aranguren, Teresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1642599808
- Language: English
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What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom
$28.00 Read moreThe first major book on the new Iranian revolution
‘A document of real optimism.’ Guardian On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next w- Author: Azizi, Arash
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 086154711X
- Language: English
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The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
$31.18 Add to cartYehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel’s most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have sele… [more below]
- Series: Literature of the Middle East
- Author: Amichai, Yehuda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 15 2013
- ISBN10: 520275837
- Language: English
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The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700
$44.99 Add to cartThe geographic heart and soul of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, the Holy Land has immense significance for the millions of visitors it has attracted since as early as the fifth century BC. Now in a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Archaeological Guides
- Author: Murphy-O’Connor, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0199236666
- Language: English
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What Have You Left Behind?
$17.95 Read moreIn 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilians in the Yemeni Civil War, which has killed over 350,000 people according to the UN. Inspired by the wo
- Author: Al-Maqtari, Bushra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1804270016
- Language: English
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Sacred Nile
$50.00 Add to cartSacred Nile is the story of our collective spiritual imagination and practice. Chester Higgins celebrates the agency of people of African descent and their influence on the foundation of Western relig… [more below]
- Author: Higgins, Chester
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0578851180
- Language: English
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Hogs in the Sand: A Gulf War A-10 Pilot’s Combat Journal
$31.95 Add to cart“I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index finger, I can rip the turret off a thirty-ton battle tank and throw it 200 feet across the desert, whil… [more below]
- Author: Wyndham, Buck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1646631609
- Language: English
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Head of the Mossad: In Pursuit of a Safe and Secure Israel
$29.00 Add to cartShabtai Shavit, director of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996, is one of the most influential leaders to shape the recent history of the State of Israel. In this exciting and engaging book, Shavit combines
- Author: Shavit, Shabtai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0268108331
- Language: English
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
$18.99 Add to cartOver the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of… [more below]
- Author: Mallowan, Agatha Christie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0062093703
- Language: English
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O
$20.00 Read moreNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
“O is so full of music and passion for life . . . Zeina Hashem Beck’s poems unfold the abundance of our world.” –Ilya Kaminsky, au… [more below]- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hashem Beck, Zeina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0143136895
- Language: English
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Water & Salt
$17.95 Add to cartLena Khalaf Tuffaha’s debut, Water & Salt, sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage. These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices of… [more below]
- Author: Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1597090298
- Language: English
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Deluge
$17.00 Add to cart“To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge… Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma.” –Nao… [more below]
- Author: Chatti, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595891
- Language: English
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The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective
$49.58 Add to cartThe wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United… [more below]
- Author: Strachan, Hew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: December 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1107654238
- Language: English
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Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza
$19.95 Add to cartIn the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pi
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1939293715
- Language: English
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The Middle East for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartDemystifies the area’s culture, politics, and religions
Explore Middle Eastern history from ancient to modern times
Looking to better understand the Middle East? This plain-English guide explains th… [more below]
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Davis, Craig S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0764554832
- Language: English
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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
$20.00 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use significant archeological discoveries to provide historical information about biblical Israel and its… [more below]
- Author: Finkelstein, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0684869136
- Language: English
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The Ancient Celts
$36.99 Add to cartFierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. F… [more below]
- Author: Cunliffe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0198752938
- Language: English
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Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History
$52.00 Read moreA bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their uses
Art history is often viewed through cultural or natio- Author: Cooke, Edward S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0691184739
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$35.00 Read moreThis major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541673808
- Language: English
