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Abbasi, David Persia 7000 Years Of Civilizations paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102406. ISBN #2915272182 / 9782915272185. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Abdo, Geneive; Lyons, Jonathan Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran Holt Paperbacks 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or783009. ISBN #0805075143 / 9780805075144. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Abdo, Geneive; Lyons, Jonathan Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran Holt Paperbacks 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or783009. ISBN #0805075143 / 9780805075144. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Riveting . . . a side of Iran that is often misrepresented by the world s media an insightful, captivating book. San Francisco Chronicle Taking the reader inside Iran s key institutions, Geneive Abdo and Jonathan Lyons argue that the 1979 Iranian revolution, long viewed in the West as the pursuit of an imagined medieval Utopia, was in fact a political movement designed to modernize Islam. Twenty years later, a power struggle between conservative and reform elements provoked a clash that has destabilized the country and limited Iran s ability to integrate with the world community. Answering Only to God challenges the prevailing Western belief that the Islamic world is an undifferentiated mass of disaffected and dangerous fanatics or that a Western-style democracy will soon transform this ancient land of Shi ite and Sufi tradition. Instead, the authors explore the controversial view that beyond their quarrel with the West, stemming from decades of exploitive foreign policies, the real struggle in Iran is between reformers and conservative mu
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Abu-Amr, Ziad Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad Indiana University Press 1994 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or931421. ISBN #0253301211 / 9780253301215. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Abu-Amr, Ziad Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad Indiana University Press 1994 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or931421. ISBN #0253301211 / 9780253301215. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary As the Palestinian Liberation Organization engages in negotiations with Israel toward an interim period of limited Palestinian self-rule, this timely book provides an insider's view of how the growing hold of Islamic fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza challenges the peace process. Working from interviews with leaders of the movement and from primary documents, Ziad Abu-Amr traces the origin and evolution of the fundamentalist organizations Muslim Brotherhood Hamas and Islamic Jihad; and analyzes their ideologies, their political programs, their sources of support, and their impact on Palestinian society. With a solid grasp of the dynamics of these movements, Abu-Amr charts the struggle between the fundamentalists and the PLO to define the identity of Palestinian society, its direction, and its leadership.
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Abuelaish, Izzeldin I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey On The Road To Peace And Human Dignity 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022226. ISBN #0802779174 / 9780802779175. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Abuelaish, Izzeldin I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey On The Road To Peace And Human Dignity 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022226. ISBN #0802779174 / 9780802779175. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians" New York Times , Abuelaish has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life - as a physician who treats patients on both sides of the line, as a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women as the way forward in the Middle East. And, most recently, as the father whose daughters were killed by Israeli soldiers on January 16, 2009, during Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip. His response to this tragedy made news and won him humanitarian awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, Abuelaish called for the people in the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters will be "the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis."
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Ahmad, Kazi S. Geography Of Pakistan hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063376. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ahmed, Qanta A. In The Land Of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in The Saudi Kingdom Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or849875. ISBN #1402210876 / 9781402210877. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ahmed, Qanta A. In The Land Of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in The Saudi Kingdom Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or992450. ISBN #1402210876 / 9781402210877. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ahmed, Qanta A. In The Land Of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in The Saudi Kingdom Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or992450. ISBN #1402210876 / 9781402210877. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr. Ahmed also finds tenderness at the tattered edges of extremism, and a life-changing pilgrimage back to her Muslim faith." - Gail Sheehy The decisions that change your life are often the most impulsive ones. Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong. What she discovers is vastly different. The Kingdom is a world apart, a land of unparralled contrast. She finds rejection and scorn in the places she believed would most embrace her, but also humor, honesty, loyalty and love. And for Qanta, more than anything, it is a land of opportunity. A place where she discovers what it takes for one woman to recreate herself in the land of invisible women.
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Ahmedi, Farah; Ansary, Tamim Story Of My Life: An Afghan Girl On The Other Side Of The Sky Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or838362. ISBN #1416906703 / 9781416906704. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ahour, Parivash All Children Of The World Smile in The Same Language: Iran; The Cradle Of Civilization Authorhouse 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or841757. ISBN #1414000731 / 9781414000732. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ahour, Parivash All Children Of The World Smile in The Same Language: Iran; The Cradle Of Civilization Authorhouse 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or841757. ISBN #1414000731 / 9781414000732. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary All Children of the World Smile in the Same Language is a photo book with a touch of geography and history of Iran. It suits the family reading hours, school history geography projects, and is targeted to the understanding of the Iranian ethnic groups, living throughout the world. Enticed by looking at the picture of Solomon s Site that her uncle sent from Iran, Elika, an Iranian-American girl, sees Solomon s Magic Carpet on the sky. She jumps onto it and heads for that legendary land. There, she sees the sky scrapers, the snow-covered mountains, the deserts, and the old houses. On her way back home, the sight of two smiling brothers makes Elika remember that All Children of the World Smile in the Same Langu
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Al-Amir, Daisy The Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman's Tales Of Alienation (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series) Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or808558. ISBN #0292790678 / 9780292790674. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Al-Amir, Daisy The Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman's Tales Of Alienation (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series) Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or808558. ISBN #0292790678 / 9780292790674. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Daisy Al-Amir is one of the more visible figures in women's fiction in the Arab world today. This collection of stories, originally published in Lebanon as Ala La'ihat al-Intizar, is the most recent of her five publications. Her stories intimately reflect women's experiences in the chaotic worlds of the Lebanese civil war and the rise of Saadam Hussain as Iraq's leader. Set in Iraq, Cyprus, and Lebanon, the stories shed light on an unusual Middle East refugee experience--that of a cultural refugee, a divorced woman who is educated, affluent, and alone. Al-Amir is also a poet and novelist, whose sensual prose grows out of a long tradition of Iraqi poetry. But one also finds existential themes in her works, as Al-Amir tries to balance what seems fated and what seems arbitrary in the turbulent world she inhabits. She deals with time and space in a minimalist, surreal style, while studying the disappointments of life through the subjective lens of memory. Honestly facing the absence of family and the instability of place, Al-Amir gives lifelike qualities to the inanimate objects of her rapidly changing world. In addition to the stories, two examples of the author's experimental poems are included. In her introduction, Mona Mikhail places these stories and poems in the context of contemporary Islamic literature and gender studies.
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Al-Radi, Nuha Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle Of War And Exile 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097456. ISBN #1400075254 / 9781400075256. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Al-Radi, Nuha Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle Of War And Exile 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097456. ISBN #1400075254 / 9781400075256. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this often moving, sometimes wry account of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, Iraqi-born, British-educated artist Nuha al-Radi shows us the effects of war on ordinary people. She recounts the day-to-day realities of living in a city under siege, where food has to be consumed or thrown out because there is no way to preserve it, where eventually people cannot sleep until the nightly bombing commences, where packs of stray dogs roam the streets and provide her own dog Salvi with a harem and rats invade homes. Through it all, al-Radi works at her art and gathers with neighbors and family for meals and other occasions, happy and sad. In the wake of the war, al-Radi lives in semi-exile, shuttling between Beirut and Amman, travelling to New York, London, Mexico and Yemen. As she suffers the indignities of being an Iraqi in exile, al-Radi immerses us in a way of life constricted by the stress and effects of war and embargoes, giving texture to a reality we have only been able to imagine before now. But what emanates most vibrantly from these diaries is the spirit of endurance and the celebration of the smallest of life s joys.
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Ali, Nujood; Minoui, Delphine I Am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or964153. ISBN #0307589676 / 9780307589675. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ali, Nujood; Minoui, Delphine I Am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or964153. ISBN #0307589676 / 9780307589675. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary I m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no. Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. There she suffered daily from physical and emotional abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the rough hands of her spouse. Flouting his oath to wait to have sexual relations with Nujood until she was no longer a child, he took her virginity on their wedding night. She was only ten years old. Unable to endure the pain and distress any longer, Nujood fled not for home, but to the courthouse of the capital, paying for a taxi ride with a few precious coins of bread money. When a renowned Yemeni lawyer heard about the young victim, she took on Nujood s case and fought the archaic system in a country where almost half the girls are married while still under the legal age. Since their unprecedented victory in April 2008, Nujood s courageous defiance of both Yemeni customs and her own family has attracted a storm of international attention. Her story even incited change in Yemen and other Middle Eastern countries, where underage marriage laws are being increasingly enforced and other child brides have been granted divorces. Recently honored alongside Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice as one of Glamour magazine s women of the year, Nujood now tells her full story for the first time. As she guides us from the magical, fragrant streets of the Old City of Sana a to the cement-block slums and rural villages of this ancient land, her unflinching look at an injustice suffered by all too many girls around the world is at once shocking, inspiring, and utter
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Ali, Nujood; Minoui, Delphine I Am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced Broadway Paperbacks 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or842122. ISBN #0307589676 / 9780307589675. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ali, Nujood; Minoui, Delphine I Am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced Broadway Paperbacks 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or842122. ISBN #0307589676 / 9780307589675. (filed under: Middle East ) *
stock image, actual book may vary I m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no. Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. There she suffered daily from physical and emotional abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the rough hands of her spouse. Flouting his oath to wait to have sexual relations with Nujood until she was no longer a child, he took her virginity on their wedding night. She was only ten years old. Unable to endure the pain and distress any longer, Nujood fled not for home, but to the courthouse of the capital, paying for a taxi ride with a few precious coins of bread money. When a renowned Yemeni lawyer heard about the young victim, she took on Nujood s case and fought the archaic system in a country where almost half the girls are married while still under the legal age. Since their unprecedented victory in April 2008, Nujood s courageous defiance of both Yemeni customs and her own family has attracted a storm of international attention. Her story even incited change in Yemen and other Middle Eastern countries, where underage marriage laws are being increasingly enforced and other child brides have been granted divorces. Recently honored alongside Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice as one of Glamour magazine s women of the year, Nujood now tells her full story for the first time. As she guides us from the magical, fragrant streets of the Old City of Sana a to the cement-block slums and rural villages of this ancient land, her unflinching look at an injustice suffered by all too many girls around the world is at once shocking, inspiring, and utter
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Ali, Nujood; Minoui, Delphine I Am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1079017. ISBN #0307589676 / 9780307589675. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ali, Nujood; Minoui, Delphine I Am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1079017. ISBN #0307589676 / 9780307589675. (filed under: Middle East ) *
stock image, actual book may vary I m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no. Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. There she suffered daily from physical and emotional abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the rough hands of her spouse. Flouting his oath to wait to have sexual relations with Nujood until she was no longer a child, he took her virginity on their wedding night. She was only ten years old. Unable to endure the pain and distress any longer, Nujood fled not for home, but to the courthouse of the capital, paying for a taxi ride with a few precious coins of bread money. When a renowned Yemeni lawyer heard about the young victim, she took on Nujood s case and fought the archaic system in a country where almost half the girls are married while still under the legal age. Since their unprecedented victory in April 2008, Nujood s courageous defiance of both Yemeni customs and her own family has attracted a storm of international attention. Her story even incited change in Yemen and other Middle Eastern countries, where underage marriage laws are being increasingly enforced and other child brides have been granted divorces. Recently honored alongside Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice as one of Glamour magazine s women of the year, Nujood now tells her full story for the first time. As she guides us from the magical, fragrant streets of the Old City of Sana a to the cement-block slums and rural villages of this ancient land, her unflinching look at an injustice suffered by all too many girls around the world is at once shocking, inspiring, and utter
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Ali, Tariq Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation Of Iraq Verso 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Price clipped. Book #or797583. ISBN #1859845835 / 9781859845837. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ali, Tariq Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation Of Iraq Verso 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Price clipped. Book #or797583. ISBN #1859845835 / 9781859845837. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The bestselling history of the resistance in Iraq that vitalized the antiwar movement. The assault and capture of Iraq and the resistance it has provoked will shape the politics of the twenty-first century. In this passionate and provocative book, Tariq Ali provides a history of Iraqi resistance against empires old and new, and argues against the view that sees imperialist occupation as the only viable solution to bring about regime-change in corrupt and dictatorial states. Like the author s previous work, The Clash of Fundamentalisms , this book presents a magnificent cultural history. Detailing the longstanding imperial ambitions of key figures in the Bush administration and how war profiteers close to Bush are cashing in, Bush in Babylon is unique in moving beyond the corporate looting by the US military government to offer the reader an expert and in-depth analysis of the extent of resistance to the US occupation in Iraq. On 15 February 2003, eight million people marched on the streets of five continents against a war that had not yet begun. A historically unprecedented number of people rejected official justifications for war that the secular Ba'ath Party of Iraq was connected to al-Qaeda or that weapons of mass destruction existed in the region, outside of Israel. More people than ever are convinced that the greatest threat to peace comes from the center of the American empire and its satrapies, with Blair and Sharon as lieutenants to the Commander-in-Chief. Examining how countries from Japan to France eventually rushed to support US aims, as well as the futile UN resistance, Tariq Ali proposes a re-founding of Mark Twain's mammoth American Anti-Imperialist League which included William James, W.E.B. DuBois, William Dean Howells, and John Dewey to carry forward the antiwar movement. Meanwhile, as Iraqis show unexpected hostility and independence, rather than gratitude, for liberation, Ali is unique is uncovering the depth of the resistance now occurring inside
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Ali, Tariq The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power Scribner 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or939972. ISBN #1416561013 / 9781416561019. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ali, Tariq The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power Scribner 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or939972. ISBN #1416561013 / 9781416561019. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over one thousand miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military dictatorship for thirty-three of its fiftyyear existence. Yet it is the linchpin in the United States' war on terror, receiving over 10 billion of American aid since 2001 and purchasing more than 5 billion of U.S. weaponry in 2006 alone. These days, relations between the two countries are never less than tense. Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf reported that U.S. deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage threatened to "bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age" if it did not commit fully to the alliance in the wake of 9 11. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said he would have no hesitation in bombing Al Qaeda inside the country, "with or without" approval of the Pakistani government. Recent surveys show that more than 70 percent of Pakistanis fear the United States as a military threat to their country. The Bush administration spent much of 2007 promoting a "dream ticket" of Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto to run Pakistan together. That strategy, with Bhutto assassinated and the general's party winning less than 15 percent of the contested seats in the 2008 election, is now in tatters. With increasingly bold attacks by Taliban supporters in the border regions threatening to split the Pakistan army, with the only political alternatives -- Nawaz Sharif and Benazir's widower Asif Ali Zardari -- being as corrupt as the regime they seek to replace, and with a newly radicalized movement of lawyers testing its strength as championsof the rule of law, the chances of sustained stability in Pakistan look slim. The scion of a famous Punjabi political family, with extraordinary contacts inside the country and internationally, Tariq Ali has long been acknowledged as a leading commentator on Pakistan. In these pages he combines deep understanding of the country's history with extensive firsthand research and unsparing political judgment to weigh the prospects of those contending for power today. The labyrinthine path between a secure world and global conflagration runs right through Pakistan. No one is better placed to trace its contours.
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Allen, Peter The Yom Kippur War hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1005637. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Anderson, Scott Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart Anchor 2017 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1093991. ISBN #0525434437 / 9780525434436. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Anderson, Scott Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart Anchor 2017 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1093991. ISBN #0525434437 / 9780525434436. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia , a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as New York Times bestselling author Scott Anderson shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before. In this gripping account, Anderson examines the myriad complex causes of the region s profound unraveling, tracing the ideological conflicts of the present to their origins in the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 and beyond. From this investigation emerges a rare view into a land in upheaval through the eyes of six individuals the matriarch of a dissident Egyptian family; a Libyan Air Force cadet with divided loyalties; a Kurdish physician from a prominent warrior clan; a Syrian university student caught in civil war; an Iraqi activist for women s rights; and an Iraqi day laborer-turned-ISIS fighter. A probing and insightful work of reportage, Fractured Lands offers a penetrating portrait of the contemporary Arab world and brings the stunning realities of an unprecedented geopolitical tragedy into crystalline focus.
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Ansary, Tamim West Of Kabul, East Of New York: An Afghan American Story 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063569. ISBN #0374287570 / 9780374287573. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Ansary, Tamim West Of Kabul, East Of New York: An Afghan American Story 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063569. ISBN #0374287570 / 9780374287573. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an Afghan American. The message spread, and in a few days it had reached, and affected, millions of people-Afghans and Americans, soldiers and pacifists, conservative Christians and talk-show hosts; for the message, written in twenty minutes, was one Ansary had been writing all his life. West of Kabul, East of New York is an urgent communiqu by an American with "an Afghan soul still inside me," who has lived in the very different worlds of Islam and the secular West. The son of an Afghan man and the first American woman to live as an Afghan, Ansary grew up in the intimate world of Afghan family life, one never seen by outsiders. No sooner had he emigrated to San Francisco than he was drawn into the community of Afghan expatriates sustained by the dream of returning to their country -and then drawn back to the Islamic world himself to discover the nascent phenomenon of militant religious fundamentalism. Tamim Ansary has emerged as one of the most eloquent voices on the conflict between Islam and the West. His book is a deeply personal account of the struggle to reconcile two great civilizations and to find some point in the imagination where they might meet.
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