Middle East
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The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
$17.99 Read more*ALA Notable Children’s book 2006 *
Celebrated author-illustrator Jeanette Winter weaves a hopeful tale of one woman’s courageous book rescue. In the Spring of 2003, Alia Muhammad Baker was the city- Author: Winter, Jeanette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0152054456
- Language: English
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Arts and Culture in the Early Islamic World
$11.95 Read moreThe contributions to arts and culture by early Islamic empires is considerable. This book explores their great works of literature, as well as such artistic works as Arabesque art, calligraphy, mosque… [more below]
- Series: Life in the Early Islamic World
- Author: Flatt, Lizann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0778721744
- Language: English
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KJV Holy Bible: Compact with 43,000 Cross References, Black Leathersoft, Red Letter, Comfort Print: King James Version
$39.99 Add to cartThe KJV Compact Reference Bible offers the literary beauty of the King James Version in a hand-sized volume that features Thomas Nelson’s KJV Comfort Print, an exclusive font that was designed to be t
- Author: Thomas Nelson
- Binding:
- Page Count: 1504
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1400333458
- Language: English
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Escape from Aleppo
$18.99 Read more“Filled with kindness and hope, but also with the harsh realities of the horrors of war, this heartbreaking book is a necessary reminder of what many people live through every day.” —Booklist (starre… [more below]
- Author: Senzai, N. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1481472178
- Language: English
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
$16.95 Read moreExtracts from two of Bell’s most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters
A woman far ahead of her time,
- Author: Bell, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1843915472
- Language: English
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The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224-651
$35.00 Read moreA comprehensive military history of one of the most important empires of Late Antiquity
The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224-651 is the first comprehensive study in Engl
- Author: Decker, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1594163693
- Language: English
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Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
$19.95 Read more“Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Stud
- Author: Dennett, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021475
- Language: English
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The Three Lucys
$12.95 Read moreAfter a young Lebanese boy loses one of his beloved cats when his village comes under attack, he must learn to cope with loss and hope for a peaceful future.
Luli likes to sit in the shade of an olive
- Author: Charara, Hayan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 164379602X
- Language: English
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Nubia: Lost Civilizations
$29.00 Read moreDrawing on the latest archaeological and textual discoveries, a revealing look at the rich and dynamic civilization of Nubia.
Nubia, the often-overlooked southern neighbor of Egypt, has been home to- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Schellinger, Sarah M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146593
- Language: English
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Muhammad
$24.99 Read moreMuhammad
Born in Mecca in the year 570, Muhammad grew into a sensitive and thoughtful man who believed deeply in the worship of one true god.
is
the messenger of Islam.
In his fortieth year, Muhamma- Author: Demi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0689852649
- Language: English
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In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale
$20.00 Read moreOnce upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small vil… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679727833
- Language: English
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The Role of Religion in the Early Islamic World
$11.95 Read moreThis informative book describes how the Muslim religion started, including the life of the Prophet Muhammad; the Hegira and Kaaba; caliphs; the split of the Sunni and Shi’a and the beliefs of both; Su… [more below]
- Series: Life in the Early Islamic World
- Author: Whiting, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0778721760
- Language: English
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Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
$18.95 Add to cart
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more tha
Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award- Author: Khalidi, Rashid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0807033243
- Language: English
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A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel
$24.00 Read moreThe definitive general history of the Zionist movement, by one of the most distinguished historians of our time.
Walter Laqueur traces Zionism from its beginnings–with the emancipation of European Je- Author: Laqueur, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 20 2003
- ISBN10: 0805211497
- Language: English
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The Persians: Lost Civilizations
$29.00 Read moreNow in paperback, this is a history of an incomparable culture whose influence can still be seen, millennia later, in modern-day Iran and the wider Middle East.
During the first and second millennia- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Parker, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146895
- Language: English
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Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
$35.00 Read moreA perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger’s diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in thei… [more below]
- Author: Indyk, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1101947543
- Language: English
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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
$24.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A hugely ambitious, “delightfully readable, genuinely informative” portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and A… [more below]
- Author: Ghazvinian, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0307472388
- Language: English
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Ancient Egyptians: Hide and Seek History: With More Than 80 Flaps!
$19.99 Read moreWith more than 80 lift-the-flaps readers can discover incredible stories, supersititions, and astonishing aspects of ancient Egypt.
With more than 80 lift-the-flaps and with flaps under flaps, readers- Author: Marx, Jonny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1944530312
- Language: English
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The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After
$19.00 Read moreSoon after the Oslo accords were signed in September 1993 by Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization, Edward Said predicted that they could not lead to real peace. In these essays, most writte
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375725741
- Language: English
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Science, Medicine, and Math in the Early Islamic World
$11.95 Read moreThe scientific contributions of the early Islamic empires to science, medicine, and mathematics is considerable. This revealing book explores: their public hospitals, libraries, and universities; thei… [more below]
- Series: Life in the Early Islamic World
- Author: Romanek, Trudee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0778721779
- Language: English
