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Montefiore, Simon Sebag Jerusalem: The Biography 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143034. ISBN #0307280500 / 9780307280503. (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 ) *
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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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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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Ajami, Fouad Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967 Cambridge University Press 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151414. ISBN #0521438330 / 9780521438339. (keywords: Arab Predicament Political Thought Practice) (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 ) *
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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, 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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Anderson, Scott Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly And The Making Of The Modern Middle East Doubleday 2013 hardcover. Signed by Author. SIGNED author book-plate present. Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1142767. ISBN #038553292X / 9780385532921. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Anderson, Scott Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Anchor 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Like New. Book #or1150553. ISBN #0307476413 / 9780307476418. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Anderson, Scott Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Anchor 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Like New. Book #or1150553. ISBN #0307476413 / 9780307476418. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor NPR The Seattle Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chicago Tribune A New York Times Notable Book The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T. E. Lawrence, a sideshow of a sideshow. 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. At the center of it all was Lawrence himself. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in Syria; by 1917 he was riding into legend at the head of an Arab army as he fought a rearguard action against his own government and its imperial ambitions. Based on four years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabia definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed.
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Angrist, Michele Penner (Editor) Politics & Society in The Contemporary Middle East 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106646. ISBN #1588267172 / 9781588267177. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Angrist, Michele Penner (Editor) Politics & Society in The Contemporary Middle East 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106646. ISBN #1588267172 / 9781588267177. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This cutting-edge, and at the same time lively and accessible, examination of the domestic politics of the Middle East has been carefully designed to meet the needs of the university classroom. Eight thematic chapters introduce the subject and explore the region-wide dynamics of governments and oppositions, international politics, political economy, civil society, religion and politics, identity politics, and gender and family issues. These themes are then systematically explored with regard to Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and the UAE. The result is an insightful overview and analysis that both provides a wealth of information and encourages comparative, critical thinking by students at all levels.
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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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Asadi, Houshang Letters To My Torturer: Love, Revolution, And Imprisonment in Iran 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1074155. ISBN #1851687505 / 9781851687503. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Asadi, Houshang Letters To My Torturer: Love, Revolution, And Imprisonment in Iran 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1074155. ISBN #1851687505 / 9781851687503. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Prominent Iranian journalist and political activist Houshang Asadi was used to being arrested. This time, however, was different. Little did he know in 1983 that he would spend the next six years being brutally, mindlessly tortured by those he supported. Brother Hamid , Asadi s torturer, stopped at nothing to extract his confessions . Asadi was a spy for Russia, for Britain, for anyone or anything. Hamid became an ambassador; Asadi a fugitive, haunted by nightmares and persisting pain. His feet lashed till lame, he was grilled until he could no longer answer a simple question. In these letters, discover how, through his accidental friendship with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, a fellow cellmate under the regime, Asadi was saved from execution and confronts his torturer one last time. In 1983, Houshang Asadi was imprisoned in Tehran. Under torture, he said he was a spy. Many of his friends also confessed and were executed. He was released after six years. Today he lives in Paris with his wife, Nooshabeh Amiri. They write for the Iranian news website Rooz Online
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Aslan, Reza (editor) Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (Words Without Borders) W. W. Norton & Company 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155827. ISBN #0393065855 / 9780393065855. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Aslan, Reza (editor) Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (Words Without Borders) W. W. Norton & Company 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155827. ISBN #0393065855 / 9780393065855. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A Words Without Borders Anthology Remarkable . . . a triumph . . . connects us at the level of our humanity, no matter where we may be from. Los Angeles Times The countries that stretch along the broad horizons of the Middle East from Morocco to Iran, from Turkey to Pakistan boast different cultures, different languages, and different religions. Yet the literary landscape of this dynamic part of the world has been bound together not by borders and nationalities, but by a common experience of Western imperialism. Keenly aware of the collected scars left by a legacy of colonial rule, the acclaimed writer Reza Aslan, with a team of four regional editors and seventy-seven translators, cogently demonstrates with Tablet and Pen how literature can, in fact, be used to form identity and serve as an extraordinary chronicle of the disrupted histories of the region. Acting with Words Without Borders, which fosters international exchange through translation and publication of the world s finest literature, Aslan has purposefully situated this volume in the twentieth century, beyond the familiar confines of the Ottoman past, believing that the writers who have emerged in the last hundred years have not received their full due. This monumental collection, therefore, of nearly two hundred pieces, including short stories, novels, memoirs, essays and works of drama many of them presented in English for the first time features translated works from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Turkish. Organized chronologically, the volume spans a century of literature from the famed Arab poet Khalil Gibran to the Nobel laureates Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk, from the great Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis to the grand dame of Urdu fiction, Ismat Chughtai connected by the extraordinarily rich tradition of resplendent cultures that have been all too often ignored by the Western canon. By shifting America s perception of the Middle Eastern world away from religion and politics, Tablet and Pen evokes the splendors of a region through the voices of its writers and poets, whose literature tells an urgent and liberating story. With a wealth of contextual information that places the writing within the historical, political, and cultural breadth of the region, Tablet Pen is transcendent, a book to be devoured as a single sustained narrative, from the first page to the last. Creating a vital bridge between two estranged cultures, "this is that rare anthology: cohesive, affecting, and informing" Publishers Weekly .
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Baker, James A. III; Hamilton, Lee H. Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach Vintage Books 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or987387. ISBN #0307386562 / 9780307386564. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Baker, James A. III; Hamilton, Lee H. Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach Vintage Books 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or987387. ISBN #0307386562 / 9780307386564. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On March 15, 2006, members from both parties in Congress supported the creation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to review the situation on the ground and propose strategies for the way forward. For more than eight months, the Study Group met with military officers, regional experts, academics, journalists, and high-level government officials from America and abroad. Participants included George W. Bush and members of his cabinet; Bill Clinton; Jalal Talabani; Nouri Kamal al-Maliki; Generals John Abizaid, George Casey, and Anthony Zinni; Colin Powell; Thomas Friedman; George Packer; and many others. This official edition contains the Group s findings and proposals for improving security, strengthening the new government, rebuilding the economy and infrastructure, and maintaining stability in the region. It is a highly anticipated and essential step forward for Iraq, America, and the worl
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Bard, Mitchell G. Will Israel Survive? Palgrave Macmillan 2007 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or740213. ISBN #1403981981 / 9781403981981. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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Bard, Mitchell G. Will Israel Survive? Palgrave Macmillan 2007 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or740213. ISBN #1403981981 / 9781403981981. (filed under: Middle East ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary While most people view the Palestinian conflict as the greatest threat to Israel's survival, it is in fact only one of the nation's long-term concerns. Aside from terrorists seeking to destroy it, Israel must contend with tensions between religious and secular Jews, the demographic issues posed by a quickly growing Arab population, internal political divisions, and disputes over the water sources that are critical to its survival. In the face of these challenges, the country's future can seem precarious. Bard paints a realistic picture of the road ahead with a hopeful message: Israel will not only survive, but will endure long into the future. di
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Barnes, Dr. Ian Historical Atlas Of Judaism Chartwell 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149230. ISBN #0785824847 / 9780785824848. (filed under: Middle East ) *
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