Middle East
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
$26.99 Add to cartAn immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran’s glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah’s widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1250304857
- Language: English
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On Wings of Eagles
$18.00 Add to cart#1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his countrymen. . . .
W- Author: Follett, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0451213092
- Language: English
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We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
$18.99 Add to cartA riveting first-hand account of the fierce battle for Fallujah during the Iraq War and the Marines who fought there–a story of brotherhood and sacrifice in a platoon of heroes
Five months after bein… [more below]- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0306815737
- Language: English
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The Book of Revolutions: The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah
$29.95 Add to cart2023 Top Five Reference Book from the Academy of Parish Clergy
The Torah is truly the Book of Revolutions, born from a military coup (the Northern Israelite revolution), the aftermath of an assassina- Author: Feld, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0827615221
- Language: English
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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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Israel’s Secret Wars: A History of Israel’s Intelligence Services
$22.00 Add to cartOne of the events most crucial to the war in the Persian Gulf occurred nearly ten years before it began, when Israel destroyed Iraq’s most advanced weapon, the nuclear reactor at Al-Tuweitha, acting o
- Author: Black, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 634
- Publish Date: March 21 1994
- ISBN10: 0802132863
- Language: English
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The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700
$42.99 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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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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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 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
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and Two
$24.00 Add to cartThe life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’–the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego o- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #1
- Author: Al-Shidy?q, A?mad F?ris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1479800724
- Language: English
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
$32.00 Add to cartA sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation
- Author: Fisk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: February 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400075173
- Language: English
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Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
$25.95 Add to cartIn this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to… [more below]
- Author: Schulman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0822353733
- Language: English
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Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
$31.99 Add to cartWith the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Robert Fisk’s explosive Pity the Nation recounts Sharon and Arafat’s … [more below]
- Series: Nation Books
- Author: Fisk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 24 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254424
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
$27.95 Add to cartGershon Baskin’s memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in … [more below]
- Author: Baskin, Gershon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0826521819
- Language: English
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
$29.95 Read moreA captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possible
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism–gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herr- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0691143692
- Language: English
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Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
$12.99 Read moreIn development as a television series from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios!
This hilarious, poignant and true story of one teen’s experience growing up in Americ- Author: Saedi, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1524717827
- Language: English
