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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

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

This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953--a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. 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 now been declassified. Stephen Kinzer's compelling narrative is at once a vital piece of history, a cautionary tale, and a real-life espionage thriller.
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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, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism. Focusing on the diverse cultures that exist side by side in Israel and Israeli-controlled territories, Shipler examines the process of indoctrination that begins in schools; he discusses the far-ranging effects of socioeconomic differences, historical conflicts between Islam and Juda...
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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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Arabs and Israel For Beginners

By: Ron David

Price: $14.95

Publisher: For Beginners: August 2007

Seller ID: 235472

ISBN: 1934389161

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is in the headlines daily, but do most Americans really understand what it is about? "Arabs & Israel For Beginners "provides an intelligent, in-depth, yet humorous and accessible Palestinian perspective on the struggle between the two nations. With dramatic events happening almost every day in this region, and the US government increasingly becoming involved, the American public deserves to hear both sides. "Arabs & Israel For Beginners" covers the Middle East from ancient times to the present, tells the truth in plain English. If you want to know the tru...
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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

A magnificent reckoning with the extraordinary changes engulfing the Middle East, by one of our greatest reporters on the region Robin Wright first landed in the Middle East on October 6, 1973, the day the fourth Middle East war erupted. She has covered every country and most major crises in the region since then, through to the rise of Al-Qaeda and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. For all the drama of the past, however, the region's most decisive traumas are unfolding today as the Middle East struggles to deal with trends that have already reshaped the rest of the world. And for all the darkness, t...
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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

Once in a great while, a book comes along that not only discusses a topic of interest, it changes the boundaries of that discussion forever. This is such a book. In "How Israel Lost" Richard Ben Cramer analyzes the four questions that have bedeviled Israel and Palestine for almost forty years: I. Why Do We Care About Israel?II. Why Don't the Palestinians Have a State?III. What Is a Jewish State?IV. Why Is There No Peace?With personal observation and sharp and challenging argument, Cramer insists that Israel is losing her soul by maintaining her occupation of the lands conquered ...
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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

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 sides-a confl...
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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 high-sea adv...
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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

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 trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theater. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. Curt Prufer wa...
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Letters to a Young Muslim

By: Omar Saif Ghobash

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Picador: January 2018

Seller ID: 152464

ISBN: 1250119855

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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

One Palestine, Complete

By: Tom Segev

Price: $8.98

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 British, far f...
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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 the first ti...
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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

The Assassins

By: Bernard Lewis

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Basic Books: November 2002

Seller ID: 259822

ISBN: 0465004989

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Assassins is a comprehensive, readable, and authoritative account of history's first terrorists. An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make systematic use of murder as a political weapon. Established in Iran and Syria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, they aimed to overthrow the existing Sunni order in Islam and replace it with their own. They terrorized their foes with a series of dramatic murders of Islamic leaders, as well as of some of the Crusaders, who brought their name and fame back to Europe.Professor Lewis traces the history ...
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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

You're no idiot, of course. You know that the Middle East is always in the news. But the situation there is so complex and tangled up you just can't keep track of it all. Was King Hussein related to Saddam Hussein? Why all the fighting over the West Bank? And what's oil, water, and sand got to do with it all? Don't let your brain get parched yet The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict sorts through the political and military quagmire of the Middle East in language anyone can understand. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:
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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 the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning "New York Times" correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as "reporting of the highest quality imaginable," we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins's narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of am...
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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-building, democracy and religiou...
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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

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

By: Sandy Tolan

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA: April 2007

Seller ID: 51574

ISBN: 1596913436

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine o...
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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, th...
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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

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 themselves highly...
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