Middle East
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Ahab’s House of Horrors: A Historiographic Study of the Military Campaigns of the House of Omri
$22.99 Read moreReconciling biblical and extrabiblical history
The extrabiblical testimony surrounding Israel’s early history is difficult to assess and synthesize. But numerous sources emerging from the ninth century
- Series: Studies in Biblical Archaeology, Geography, and History
- Author: Greenwood, Kyle R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 22 2023
- ISBN10: 168359648X
- Language: English
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
$22.99 Add to cartA masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of t- Author: Bogosian, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0316292109
- Language: English
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An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
$19.95 Add to cartLittle known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a tw
- Author: Aslan, Reza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065923
- Language: English
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Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar
A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islam
- Author: Segal, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: October 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374527970
- Language: English
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
$35.99 Add to cartIstanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.
From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names–Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanb- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0306921995
- Language: English
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The Alexiad
$22.00 Add to cartA revised edition of a medieval masterpiece–the first narrative history written by a woman
Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Komnene, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455272
- Language: English
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Amduat: The Great Awakening
$40.00 Add to cartThe Egyptian Amduat, “Book of the Hidden Chamber”, is a fascinating text from ancient Egypt that describes the journey of the deceased. It tells of a twelve hour long voyage beyond death through a mys
- Author: Kreikamp, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1914153057
- Language: English
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Freud And The Non-European
$19.95 Add to cartBanned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture eventually became Edward Said’s final book. Freud and the Non-European builds on Said’s abiding interest in the psychoanalyst’s work… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1781681457
- Language: English
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The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Gates of Fire and Killing Rommel, the thrilling true story of one of the most unlikely and astonishing military victories in history.
June 5, 1967. Israel is surrounded- Author: Pressfield, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1595231196
- Language: English
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They Must Go
$29.99 Add to cart“Every day,” writes Rabbi Meir Kahane, “the Arabs of Israel move closer to becoming a majority. Are we [Israel] committed to national suicide? Should we allow demography, geography, and democracy to p
- Author: Kahane, Rabbi Meir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1638232563
- Language: English
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Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey. Over the next 25 years, she would t
- Author: Yale, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1912716356
- Language: English
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What Should We Think about Israel?: Separating Fact from Fiction in the Middle East Conflict
$18.99 Read moreThe One Resource with All the Facts
You hear about Israel in the news regularly, but beyond the many opinions and preconceptions, do you really know what to make of the conflicts and controversies in- Author: Price, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 736977791
- Language: English
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Zoroastrianism: The Complete Guide on The Ancient Persian Religion of Mazdayasna and Zoroastrianism.
$19.95 Add to cartZoroastrianism was the prevailing belief system of the Persian Empire for hundreds of years and is still practiced in some parts of the world today. Relatively unknown today, this belief system was fo
- Author: Hakimi, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1778142222
- Language: English
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11 Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exiles
$22.95 Read moreWritten by the refugees themselves, this highly original anthology of Palestinians forced to live outside their homeland brings together stories of what it means to be exiled, reflections on the event
- Author: Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1682193470
- Language: English
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Tutankhamun’s Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King’s Tomb
$37.50 Add to cartIn 1922, after fifteen years of searching, archaeologists finally discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There, buried alongside the king’s mummy, they found more than 5,000 unique objects, from the
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0393531708
- Language: English
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A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return: Expanded Edition
$14.99 Add to cartThis expanded edition of A Game for Swallows features a new, illustrated afterword, as Abirached reflects on the meaning of her memoir’s title, the graffiti that inspired it, and the future of Beirut
- Author: Abirached, Zeina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1728446139
- Language: English
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Slavery in the Arab World
$29.85 Add to cart“…A comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today…”-Arab Book World
- Author: Gordon, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 1998
- ISBN10: 1561310239
- Language: English
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No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
$20.99 Add to cartA riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal’s account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting oper
- Author: Bar-Zohar, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0062379003
- Language: English
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My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past
$19.99 Add to cartIn a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they w… [more below]
- Author: Sabar, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: October 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1565129334
- Language: English
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Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
$28.99 Add to cartTending one’s fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, sterile roads and seam zones
- Author: Makdisi, Saree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338444
- Language: English
