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Encounters with the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture that Help You Understand the Region (Travelers' Tales Guides)

By: N/A

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Travelers' Tales/Solas House: December 2007

Seller ID: 278502

ISBN: 1932361480

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Encounters with the Middle East collects 30 rich, engaging travel stories that capture uplifting scenes from everyday life and deliver sensitive, bittersweet renderings of people and landscapes often shaken by conflict. This book, with black and white photographs throughout, features original takes on commonplace "things to do" for the traveler in the Middle East -- from marveling at the brilliance of the bazaars to drifting down the Nile in a felucca. It also provides intimate portrayals of people and traditions too often absent from books on the region.
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Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response

By: Aaron J. Klein

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: January 2007

Seller ID: 302020

ISBN: 0812974638

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

"This is a thriller, a page-turner, a probing look into the inner workings of the assassination squads that Israel mobilized after the Munich massacre."
-David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Arab and Jew

"Gratitude is due to Mr. Klein for his painstaking . . . book, the best one could possibly hope for."
-Walter Lacquer, The Wall Street Journal

Award-winning journalist Aaron J. Klein tells, for the first time, the complete story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and the Israeli counterterrorism operation it spawned. With unprecedented access to Moss...
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The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire

By: Amira K. Bennison

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Yale University Press: August 2010

Seller ID: 316163

ISBN: 0300167989

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In this accessibly written history, Amira K. Bennison contradicts the common assumption that Islam somehow interrupted the smooth flow of Western civilization from its Graeco-Roman origins to its more recent European and American manifestations. Instead, she places Islamic civilization in the longer trajectory of Mediterranean civilizations and sees the 'Abbasid Empire (750-1258 CE) as the inheritor and interpreter of Graeco-Roman traditions.

At its zenith the 'Abbasid caliphate stretched over the entire Middle East and part of North Africa, and influenced Islamic regimes as far west...
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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

By: Ari Shavit

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau: May 2013

Seller ID: 307083

ISBN: 0385521707

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMIST

Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today

Not since Thomas L. Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle E...
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Sinan

By: Arthur Stratton

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Scribner: January 1971

Seller ID: 338517

ISBN: 068412582x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Norton Paperback)

By: Avi Shlaim

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: January 2001

Seller ID: 55564

ISBN: 0393321126

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As it celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, the State of Israel could count many important successes, but its conflict with the Palestinians and the Arab world at large casts a long shadow over its history. What was promulgated as an "iron-wall" strategy dealing with the Arabs from a position of unassailable strength was meant to yield to a further stage where Israel would be strong enough to negotiate a satisfactory peace with its neighbors. The goal remains elusive. In this penetrating study, Avi Shlaim examines how variations of the iron-wall philosophy have guided Israel s leaders; he finds...
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The Holy Land in Color

By: Awwad, Sami

Price: $5.95

Publisher: N/A: January 1000

Seller ID: 389595

ISBN: B001VGYZRG

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Arabia, The Gulf & The West

By: B. J. Kelly

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Basic Books: April 1991

Seller ID: 329688

ISBN: 0465004164

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Palestinians: The Making of a People

By: Baruch Kimmerling, Joel S. Migdal

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press: July 1998

Seller ID: 308591

ISBN: 0674652231

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the 100-year struggle for Palestine, history itself has been a battlefield, as Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs seek to challenge each other's claim to national identity. Whatever the outcome of the current phase in regional affairs, no real progress toward peace can occur before agreement is reached about the events that have shaped the present and will remain dominant influences over the future. Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal have moved in this direction with this account of the origins and history of the Palestinian people.
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Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis

By: Bat Ye'Or, Bat Yeor

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: January 2005

Seller ID: 244242

ISBN: 083864077X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This provocative and disturbing book is about the transformation of Europe into Eurabia, a cultural and political appendage of the Arab/Muslim world. Eurabia is fundamentally anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-American, and antisemitic, while striving for Israel's disappearance and the vilification and isolation of America. The institution responsible for this transformation, and that continues to propagate its ideological message, is the Euro-Arab Dialogue, developed by European and Arab politicians and intellectuals over the past thirty years. With all the drama of a master writer, Bat Ye'or...
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

By: Bernard Lewis

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2003

Seller ID: 220127

ISBN: 0060516054

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in the marketplace.

In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sen...
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

By: Bernard Lewis

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2003

Seller ID: 237633

ISBN: 0060516054

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sen...
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

By: Bernard Lewis

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2003

Seller ID: 300478

ISBN: 0060516054

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sen...
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Travels in Arabia Deserta, Vol. 1

By: Charles Montagu Doughty

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Dover Pubns: January 1980

Seller ID: 306275

ISBN: 0486238253

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

O Jerusalem

By: Collins and lapierre

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Pocket: May 1977

Seller ID: 319236

ISBN: 0671785893

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

People of Nowhere: The Palestinian Vision of Home

By: Danny Rubinstein

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: January 1993

Seller ID: 359263

ISBN: 0812921496

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Arab and Jew

By: David K. Shipler

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Crown: August 1986

Seller ID: 89139

ISBN: 081291273X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

By: David K. Shipler

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: May 2002

Seller ID: 111261

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, revised and more relevant than ever, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, nationalism, and the failure of the peace process.
The best and most comprehensive work there is in the English language on this subject. (Walter Laqueur, The New York Times)
A rich, penetrating, and moving portrayal of Arab-Jewish hostility, told in human t...
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