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A History of the Modern Middle East

By: William L. Cleveland

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Westview Press: July 2004

Seller ID: 255689

ISBN: 0813340489

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the Iranian Revolution and the Gulf War. After introducing the reader to the region's history from the origins of Islam in the seventh century, Cleveland focuses on the past two centuries of profound and often dramatic change. While built around a framework of political history, the book also carefully integrates social, cultural, and economic developments into a single, carefully crafted account. The revised and updat...
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS

By: Robert F. Worth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: April 2017

Seller ID: 109750

ISBN: 0374536791

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A New York Times Notable Book of 2016
One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2016, Publishers Weekly
One of the Best Books of 2016, NPR
Winner of the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize
One of 20 Notable Reads from 2016, Mother Jones
Finalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Current Interest
Silver Medal Winner of the 2017 Arthur Ross Book Award

In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen,...
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

By: Stephen Kinzer

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Wiley: August 2004

Seller ID: 269220

ISBN: 0471678783

Condition: Used - VeryGood

An account of the CIA's coup d etat in Iran in 1953. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including some lengthy internal CIA reports) that have been declassified.
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

By: David K. Shipler

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: May 2002

Seller ID: 231314

ISBN: 0142002291

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Jew, according to the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. In this monumental work, revised and more relevant than ever, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, nationalism, and the failure of the peace process.
The best and most comprehensive work there is in the English language on this subject. (Walter Laqueur, The New York Times)
A rich, penetrating, and moving portrayal of Arab-Jewish hostility, told in human t...
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Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us, and Why it Matters

By: James Zogby

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: October 2010

Seller ID: 66459

ISBN: 0230102999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The Arab World is a region that has been vastly misunderstood in the West. "Arab Voices" asks the questions, collects the answers, and shares the results that will help us see Arabs clearly. The book will bring into stark relief the myths, assumptions, and biases that hold us back from understanding this important people. Here, James Zogby debuts a brand new, comprehensive poll, bringing numbers to life so that we can base policy and perception on the real world, rather than on a conjured reality.

Based on a new poll run by Zogby International exclusively for this book, some of the surpri...
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Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767

By: Thorkild Hansen

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York Review of Books: June 2017

Seller ID: 225046

ISBN: 1681370727

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light wear.
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Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East

By: Robin Wright

Price: $13.48

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The: February 2008

Seller ID: 61041

ISBN: 1594201110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Dreams and Shadows is an extraordinary tour de horizon of the new Middle East, with on-the-ground reportage of the ideas and movements driving change across the region--and the obstacles they confront.
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Gaza: Symbol of Resistance

By: N/A

Price: $19.95

Publisher: World View Forum: April 2011

Seller ID: 8662

ISBN: 0895671743

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Giving a voice to those often denied one in the media, this collection of essays and articles covers events in Gaza from the 2005 electoral victory of Hamas, through the siege and Israeli bombing, to the 2010 Israeli commando attack on ships bringing humanitarian aid. The stories told here describe how the Palestinian people of Gaza have withstood siege and war and how their resistance has inspired a worldwide grassroots movement to break the blockade and deliver aid. Contributors include members of the Palestinian community, Israeli soldiers who disagreed with the Gaza war, political activist...
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How Israel Lost: The Four Questions

By: Richard Ben Cramer

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: May 2004

Seller ID: 205942

ISBN: 0743250281

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

The ebbing support for Israel among Western Governments is a major landmark in the history of the last decade and is, without a doubt, an issue that has already influenced many international events. Richard Ben Cramer, who has a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Middle East, now presents readers with HOW ISRAEL LOST, a definitive study of the once-triumphant country that has failed in the eyes of the world. Cramer gets to the core of what is troubling so many Westerners about Israel: the contradiction between its humanistic foundation and its harsh treatment of the Palestinians. Since Isr...
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Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five

By: Miko Peled

Price: $18.98

Publisher: Just World Books: January 2018

Seller ID: 155889

ISBN: 1682570851

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In July 2004, federal agents raided the homes of five Palestinian-American families, arresting the five dads. The first trial of the "Holy Land Foundation Five" ended in a hung jury. The second, marked by highly questionable procedures, resulted in very lengthy sentences--for "supporting terrorism" by donating to charities that the U.S. government itself and other respected international agencies had long worked with. In 2013, human rights activist and author Miko Peled started investigating this case. He discussed the miscarriages of justice with the men's lawyers and heard from the men's fam...
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Israel/Palestine and the Queer International

By: Schulman, Sarah

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: October 2012

Seller ID: 278595

ISBN: 0822353733

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A few pages have minor pencil marks.
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Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

By: Amy Dockser Marcus

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Penguin Books: March 2008

Seller ID: 224609

ISBN: 0143113283

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter examines the true history of the discord between Israel and Palestine with surprising results

Though the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict have traditionally been traced to the British Mandate (1920-1948) that ended with the creation of the Israeli state, a new generation of scholars has taken the investigation further back, to the Ottoman period. The first popular account of this key era, Jerusalem 1913 shows us a cosmopolitan city whose religious tolerance crumbled before the onset of Z ionism and its corresponding nationalism on both s...
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge

By: Edward Kritzler

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Anchor: November 2009

Seller ID: 190691

ISBN: 0767919521

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them took to the seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish fleet while forming alliances with other European powers to ensure the safety of Jews living in hiding. Filled with hi...
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Scott Anderson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Doubleday: August 2013

Seller ID: 226974

ISBN: 038553292X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
New York Times - Christian Science Monitor - NPR - Seattle Times - St. Louis Dispatch

National Book Critics Circle Finalist -- American Library Association Notable Book

A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history - the Arab Revolt and the secret "great game" to control the Middle East

The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, "a sideshow of a sideshow." Amidst the slaughter in European ...
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Makers of Arab history, (Harper torchbooks)

By: Philip Khuri Hitti

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper & Row: January 1971

Seller ID: 239167

ISBN: 0061315486

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War

By: Michael Kelly

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Random House: March 1993

Seller ID: 237934

ISBN: 0679411224

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

By: Ari Shavit

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau: February 2015

Seller ID: 231329

ISBN: 0385521715

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMIST

Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today

Not since Thomas L. Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle E...
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One Palestine, Complete

By: Tom Segev

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Publisher: Picador: October 2001

Seller ID: 238371

ISBN: 0805065873

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

One Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when Britain's promise to both Jews and Arabs that they would inherit the land, set in motion the conflict that haunts the region to this day.

Drawing on untapped archival materials, Tom Segev reconstructs an era (1917 to 1948) of limitless possibilities and tragic missteps. He introduces an array unforgettable characters, tracks the steady advance of Jews and Arabs toward confrontation, and puts forth a radical new argument: that the Brit...
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Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc: March 1998

Seller ID: 245947

ISBN: 1566561310

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Quakers in the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism

By: Nancy Gallagher

Price: $26.95

Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press: October 2007

Seller ID: 198524

ISBN: 977416105X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, DJ intact - light wear to edges.
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Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By: Greg Mortenson

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Viking Adult: November 2009

Seller ID: 171998

ISBN: 0670021156

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through education

In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders. He shares for th...
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The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Free Press: September 1993

Seller ID: 81038

ISBN: 002916785X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A chronicle of American diplomacy in the Middle East reveals the untold story of the expatriate elite who helped shape U.S. policy in the region for over a century.
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The Book of Our Heritage

By: Eliyahu Kitov

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Feldheim Pub: June 1978

Seller ID: 180516

ISBN: 0873061578

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict

By: Ph.D. Mitchell Bard

Price: $6.95

Publisher: ALPHA: September 1999

Seller ID: 227783

ISBN: 0028632613

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Describes the historical background of the region, looks at its wars and terrorist attacks, and recounts the intervention of Western nations.
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The End of Iraq

By: Galbraith, Peter W.

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: June 2007

Seller ID: 269712

ISBN: 0743294246

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The End of Iraq -- definitive, tough-minded, clear-eyed, describes America's failed strategy toward that country.
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The Fall of Baghdad

By: Jon Lee Anderson

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The: September 2004

Seller ID: 101117

ISBN: 1594200343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For every great historical event, seemingly, at least one reporter writes an eyewitness account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds-George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" and the Spanish Civil War; John Hersey's "Hiroshima" and the dropping of the first atomic bomb; Philip Gourevitch's "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories of Rwanda" and the Rwandan genocide. Whatever else is written about the Iraqi people and the fall of Saddam, Jon Lee Anderson's "The Fall of Baghdad" is worthy of mention in this co...
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The Forever War

By: Dexter Filkins

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Knopf: September 2008

Seller ID: 217051

ISBN: 0307266397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures, in stunning vignettes, snapshots, and episodes, the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins's work in Iraq was hailed by David Halberstam as reporting of the highest quality imaginable. Now, through Filkins's eyes, we witness the chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, led to the attacks of 9/11, and culminated in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins's camera moves across a vast and various lan...
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The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World

By: AVI Shlaim

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: December 1999

Seller ID: 157038

ISBN: 0393048160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Clean copy, DJ intact, minor wear.
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A People's War

By: Beverley Milton-Edwards

Price: $23.98

Publisher: Routledge: August 2008

Seller ID: 136351

ISBN: 0415410436

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is one of the most enduring and complex in the modern world. But, why did the conflict break out? Who is demanding what, and why is peace so difficult to achieve?

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict tackles the subject and analyses the conflict from its historical roots in the late nineteenth century to the present attempts at conflict resolution in the twenty-first century.

Framing the debate and analysis around issues such as Zionism, Palestinian nationalism, international peace efforts, the refugees, state-buildin...
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The Kurds and the State: Evolving National Identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)

By: Natali, Denise

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: November 2005

Seller ID: 269975

ISBN: 0815630840

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In tracing the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, Denise Natali shows that, contrary to popular theories, there is nothing natural or fixed about Kurdish identity or the configuration that Kurdish nationalism assumes. Rather, Kurdish nationalism has been shaped by the development of nation-states in the region. Although Kurdish communities have maintained some shared sense of Kurdishness, Kurdayeti (the mobilization of Kurdish identity) is interwoven with a much larger series of identities within the "political space" of each Kurdish group. Different notions of inclusion and exclusion have m...
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The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years

By: Bernard Lewis

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Scribner: April 1996

Seller ID: 140591

ISBN: 0684807122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

As the birthplace of three religions as and many civilizations, the Middle East has for centuries been a center of knowledge and ideas, of techniques and commodities, and, at times, of military and political power. With the histoical -- and still growing -- importance of the Middle East in modern politics, historian Bernard Lewis's cogent and scholarly writing brings a wider understanding of the cultures of the region to a popular audience.

In this immensely readable and broad history, Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empires, the...
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The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber

By: Anne Marie Oliver, Paul F. Steinberg

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: February 2005

Seller ID: 8798

ISBN: 0195116003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Combining in equal measure the critical and the compassionate, the tragic and the absurd, this memoir chronicles two interlocking, often clashing journeys--an exploration of the cult of martyrdom in the underground media of the intifada, on the one hand, and on the other, the struggle for friendship across seemingly impossible divides.
The authors lived for six months with a Palestinian refugee family in the Gaza Strip at the beginning of the intifada, and then for the next six years, collected graffiti, videotapes, audiocassettes, posters, and other street media in over one hundred towns...
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The Wandering Who

By: Gilad Atzmon

Price: $9.98

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing: September 2011

Seller ID: 158656

ISBN: 1846948754

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This is an investigation of Jewish identity politics and contemporary Jewish ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts.
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The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge Middle East Studies)

By: N/A

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: February 2001

Seller ID: 166450

ISBN: 0521794765

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

By all accounts, the 1948 Palestine war was one of the most significant milestones in the modern history of the Middle East and remains one of the most intractable conflicts of modern times. Israelis call the 1948 war "The War of Independence" while Arabs call it al-Nakba or the disaster. The conventional Israeli version portrays 1948 as an unequal struggle between a Jewish David and an Arab Goliath, as a desperate, heroic, and ultimately successful battle for survival against overwhelming odds. In this version all the surrounding Arab states sent their armies into Palestine to strangle the Je...
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Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America

By: Michael Scheuer

Price: $7.98

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press: February 2003

Seller ID: 244873

ISBN: 1574885537

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

All Americans must read this book in order to truly understand the reasons why radical Muslims like Osama bin Laden and his followers have declared war on America and the West. Furthermore, only this book accurately describes the severity of the threat they will continue to pose, with or without bin Laden's leadership, to our national security.

To win the war against terrorism, the author argues that we must first stop dismissing militant Muslims as "extremists" or "religious fanatics." Formulating a successful military strategy requires that we must see the enemy as they perceive t...
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Triumph Without Victory: The History of the Persian Gulf War

By: N/A

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: February 1993

Seller ID: 221747

ISBN: 0812921453

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

By: Bernard Lewis

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2003

Seller ID: 258163

ISBN: 0060516054

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Underlining in ink.
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When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and Israel

By: International Quaker Working Party

Price: $5.95

Publisher: American Friends Service Commi: January 2004

Seller ID: 198506

ISBN: 0910082480

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Windows in the Wall

By: Rebecca Heyl

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Skira: May 2008

Seller ID: 16908

ISBN: 8861302025

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The 100 photographs of this photo diary document Rebecca Heyl's frequent travels between the West Bank and Israel. Her images are acutely human and perceptive, providing a sense of the texture of daily life in these two territories. They also show her respect for her subjects' dignity in the face of often unbearable circumstances. Heyl's thought-provoking introduction and running commentary also help illuminate each image. Windows: Channels for Communications is a joint organization established in 1991. Its members--Jews and Palestinians from both sides of the Green Line--work together to p...
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