Category: Middle East

Th is is not a historical record but a vivid sketch of experiences, challenges, colors, people, sandstorms; the sketch of a country as seen from the eyes of the author over three decades. The author lived for three decades in Libya, The Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya of Muammar Qadhafi. Witnessed the magnanimity of the Bedouin, his ruthlessness as dictator, the eloquence as a preacher, the dog of the Middle East, and according to Ronald Regan, the shrewd salesman of crude oil. The man who thrived on staged coups, and intimidated, persecuted, imprisoned, and executed his opponents, e...
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978

By: Bird, Kai

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Scribner : March 2011

Seller ID: 181642

ISBN-13: 9781416544418

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD'S fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous, charming American Foreign Service officer, moved to Jerusalem with his family. They settled in a small house, where young Kai could hear church bells and the Muslim call to prayer and watch as donkeys and camels competed with cars for space on the narrow streets. Each day on his way to school, Kai was driven ...
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'Peaks of Yemen I Summon': Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe

By: Caton, Steven C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of California Press : December 1990

Seller ID: 166109

ISBN-13: 9780520067660

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this first full-scale ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal poetry, Steven Caton reveals an astonishingly rich folkloric system where poetry is both a creation of art and a political and social act. Almost always spoken or chanted, Yemeni tribal poetry is cast in an idiom considered colloquial and "ungrammatical," yet admired for its wit and spontaneity. In Yemeni society, the poet has power over people. By eloquence the poet can stir or, if his poetic talents are truly outstanding, motivate an audience to do his bidding. Yemeni tribesmen think, in fact, that poetry's transformative effect is...
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Arab Folk Epic and Identity

By: Connelly, Bridget

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Univ of California Pr : December 1986

Seller ID: 166111

ISBN-13: 9780520055360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Fall Of The Ottomans

By: Eugene, Rogan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA : January 2015

Seller ID: 195228

ISBN-13: 9781846144394

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

By: Fisk, Robert

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Vintage : February 2007

Seller ID: 192649

ISBN-13: 9781400075171

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A 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 unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.

Israel on the Road to Peace: Accepting the Unacceptable

By: Flamhaft, Ziva

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Routledge : June 1996

Seller ID: 182956

ISBN-13: 9780813327747

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An in-depth study of the effects of Israel's internal struggles on the Arab-Israeli peace process, this book examines how Israel's leaders and citizens have reacted to the various proposals in the post?Camp David era, including the 1982 Reagan plan, the 1988 Shultz initiative, and the 1989 Mubarak and Baker plans. Ziva Flamhaft also analyzes reactions to the signing of the Declaration of Principles in 1993. Focusing on the domestic political scene, she exposes the efforts of the Israeli political right to undermine the peace process and illuminates the dramatic consequences of that process?the...
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Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation

By: Halevi, Yossi Klein

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Harper : October 2013

Seller ID: 134984

ISBN-13: 9780060545765

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the Everett Family Jewish Book of the Year Award (a National Jewish Book Award) and the RUSA Sophie Brody Medal.In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present.Following the lives of seven young members from the 55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade, the unit responsible for restoring Jewish sovereignty to Jerusalem, Halevi reveals how this band of brothers played pivotal roles in shaping Israel...
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Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East

By: Khalidi, Rashid

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Beacon Press : May 2004

Seller ID: 159855

ISBN-13: 9780807002346

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Desecribes the history of Western involvement in the Middle East and argues that the United States ignores history and is blindly committed to a path that is doomed for failure.
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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

By: Maalouf, Amin

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Schocken : April 1989

Seller ID: 31112

ISBN-13: 9780805208986

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitne
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Saudi Arabia. A new economic survey by First National City Bank.

By: METCALL, JOHN E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: First National City Bank. : January 1974

Seller ID: 129859

ISBN: B00RN5CSIM

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jerusalem: The Biography (Vintage)

By: Montefiore, Simon Sebag

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Vintage : September 2012

Seller ID: 188467

ISBN-13: 9780307280503

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"This is an essential book for those who wish to understand a city that remains a nexus of world affairs." --Booklist (starred)Jerusalem is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the "center of the world" and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every ...
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

By: Olson, Lynne

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Random House : February 2023

Seller ID: 193744

ISBN-13: 9780525509479

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller

By: Patterson, James, Dugard, Martin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : September 2009

Seller ID: 192984

ISBN-13: 9780316034043

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A secret buried for centuries Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after only nine years, King Tut suddenly perished, his name purged from Egyptian history. To this day, his death remains shrouded in controversy.The keys to an unsolved mysteryEnchanted by the ruler's tragic story and hoping to unlock the answers to the 3,000-year-old mystery, Howard Carter made it his life's mission to unc...
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Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

By: Said, Edward

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Verso : September 2001

Seller ID: 12178

ISBN-13: 9781859843406

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence. Beginning with a thorough expos of the fraudulent assertions of Joan Peters concerning the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine prior to 1948, the book then turns to similar instances in Middle East research where the ...
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Cradle and Crucible : History and Faith in the Middle East

By: Schorr, Daniel, Fromkin, David, Hawass, Zahi, Viorst, Milton, Mackey, Sandra

Price: $7.50

Publisher: National Geographic : November 2002

Seller ID: 56288

ISBN-13: 9780792269151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A portrait of the Middle East combines photography, maps, and the writings of noted authors to provide a detailed look at the political, cultural, historical, and religious forces that have shaped the region.
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The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (Shortest History Series)

By: Scott-Baumann, Michael

Price: $16.95

Publisher: The Experiment : February 2023

Seller ID: 191325

ISBN-13: 9781615199501

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

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