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Sandy Tolan

Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Based on a 43-minute radio documentary that Tolan produced for "Fresh Air," this volume pursues the story into the homes and histories of the two families at its center through the ...

Tim Mackintosh-smith

Editura: Yale University Press

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years ...

Stephen Kinzer

Editura: Wiley

Brimming with insights into Middle Eastern history and American foreign policy, this book is an eye-opening look at an event whose unintended consequences--Islamic revolution and ...

Kim Ghattas

Editura: Henry Holt & Company

" A] sweeping and authoritative history" ( The New York Times Book Review ), Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and ...

Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah

Editura: Freehand Books

Justin Marozzi

Editura: Pegasus Books

A history of the rich and diverse civilizations over fifteen centuries of Islam seen through its greatest cities. Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a ...

Arthur Koestler

Editura: Last Century Media

UNCENSORED This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. ...

Edward W. Said

Editura: Vintage

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a ...

Joe Sacco

Editura: Fantagraphics Books

Based on years of research and extended visits to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, "Palestine" is the first major comics work of political nonfiction by Sacco. ...

Mike Thomson

Editura: Publicaffairs

The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege. Daraya lies on the ...

Tim Mackintosh-smith

Editura: Yale University Press

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years ...

Thomas Asbridge

Editura: Ecco Press

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge--a renowned historian who writes ...

Ahmad Sam'ani

Editura: State University Of New York Press

The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam'ānī, an ...

Riad Sattouf

Editura: Metropolitan Books

The penultimate installment in the bestselling French graphic memoir series--hailed as "exquisitely illustrated" and "irresistible"--covering the years of Sattouf's adolescence, ...

David Fromkin

Editura: Holt Mcdougal

Published with a new afterword from the author--the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a region of rival ...

Thomas Hegghammer

Editura: Cambridge University Press

Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi ...

Samuel M. Katz

Editura: Hanover Square Press

The inside story of the covert operation that took down the heads of ISIS No Shadows in the Desert r eveals the untold story of the behind-the-scenes fight against ISIS--one ...

Patrick J. Sloyan

Editura: Thomas Dunne Books

On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut. 241 Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack our nation would suffer until 9/11. ...

Noah Feldman

Editura: Princeton University Press

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to ...

Clarissa Ward

Editura: Penguin Press

" On All Fronts takes the reader on a riveting journey of storytelling. . . From Russia to China to Syria, she] navigate s] the most intense of human experiences while finding the ...

Richard W. Bulliet

Editura: Ilex Foundation

The End of Middle East History and Other Conjectures is an unapologetic collection of imaginative essays from thought-provoking Middle East scholar Richard W. Bulliet. Not your ...

Dan Joseph

Editura: Indiana University Press

One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule over millions in Somalia and poses a growing threat to stability in the Horn of ...

Charles Le Gai Eaton

Editura: Book Foundation

This selection of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad was made by the internationally respected British Muslim scholar, Charles le Gai Eaton. The Book of Hadith captures not only ...

Sam Dagher

Editura: Little Brown And Company

In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice about how to respond to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Tlass ...

Ken Follett

Editura: Penguin Books

#1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his ...

Massoud Hayoun

Editura: New Press

The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family's Jewish Arab ...

Sam Dagher

Editura: Back Bay Books

From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a ...

Ariel Sabar

Editura: Algonquin Books

Sabar once looked at his [immigrant] father with shame, scornful of the alien who still bore scars on his back from childhood bloodlettings. This book, he writes, is a chance to ...

Eugene Rogan

Editura: Basic Books

The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times , the Economist , and the Atlantic -- now updated to ...

Robert Spencer

Editura: Bombardier Books

The comprehensive history of the role of war and terror in the spread of Islam. It is taken for granted, even among many Washington policymakers, that Islam is a fundamentally ...

Wendy Pearlman

Editura: Custom House

LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic ...

Juan Cole

Editura: Bold Type Books

In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary. Many observers stereotype Islam and its ...

T. E. Lawrence

Editura: Wilder Publications

When T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom first appeared in 1922 it was immediately recognized as a literary masterpiece. In writing his extraordinary account of the Arab ...

Dana J. H. Pittard

Editura: Post Hill Press

In this vivid first-person narrative, a Special Operations Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and his commanding general give fascinating and detailed accounts of ...

Larry Hedrick

Editura: Griffin

In 1906, a stilted English translation of Xenophon of Athens' story about Cyrus the Great's military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more accessible edition ...

Robert Spencer

Editura: Bombardier Books

The comprehensive history of the role of war and terror in the spread of Islam. It is taken for granted, even among many Washington policymakers, that Islam is a fundamentally ...

Ian S. Lustick

Editura: University Of Pennsylvania Press

Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost , Ian S. Lustick brings fifty ...

Tom Holland

Editura: Anchor Books

A thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire . The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the ...

Christopher Lee Bollyn

Editura: Christopher Bollyn

A historical analysis of the origin of the War on Terror and the strategic plan to Balkanize the Middle East under the pretext of fighting terrorism. Contains fifteen chapters ...

Elias Chacour

Editura: Baker Books

Now updated with commentary on the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as a new Foreword by Lynne Hybels and Gabe Lyons, this book offers hope and insight ...