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The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State by Samer
RRP: $21.87$14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560054Author SamerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Temperature Rising: Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East by Nader Uskowi 9781538121733
RRP: $52.89$46.54Iran is a country at war - in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. The founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, always told audiences that the revolution was not about Iran, but the whole region. To establish an arc of Shia influence across the Middle... -
Reclaiming Israel's History: Roots, Rights, and the Struggle for Peace by David Brog 9781621578109
RRP: $24.50$15.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621578109Author David BrogFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Soldiers of End-Times: Assessing the Military Effectiveness of the Islamic State by Ido Levy 9781538181324
RRP: $38.70$34.42In 2014, the Islamic State shocked the world when it defeated national armies on the battlefield and seized large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. The group's military success can be traced to four key variables: organizational innovation, shaping... -
Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath by Itamar Rabinovich
RRP: $32.25$25.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780691193311Author Itamar RabinovichFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University PressWeight(grams) 140g -
The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East by Marc Lynch 9781610397728
RRP: $19.34$14.38Marc Lynch's last book, The Arab Uprising, described the then ongoing revolutionary change and prospect for the consolidation of democracy in key Arab countries that still seemed possible. But Lynch saw dark signs on the horizon, especially in Syria... -
Crossing the Sea: With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe by Wolfgang Bauer 9781908276827
RRP: $19.35$13.91Award-winning journalist Wolfgang Bauer and photographer Stanislav Krupar were the first undercover reporters to document the journey of Syrian refugees from Egypt to Europe. Posing as English teachers in 2014, they were direct witnesses to the brutality... -
The State of Resistance The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran by Assal H. Rad 9781009193566
RRP: $29.66$25.23The Iranian nation-state has long captivated the attention of our media and politics, and this book goes behind the proverbial veil to uncover its mysteries and explore forgotten aspects of the debate. Using innovative multi-disciplinary methods, it... -
Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump by Khaled Elgindy 9780815731559
RRP: $32.25$28.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815731559Author Khaled ElgindyFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)... -
Understanding New Security Threats Michel Gueldry (Middlebury Institute of International Studies, USA) 9781138104747
RRP: $47.72$41.96This textbook examines non-traditional forms of security and expands the notion of security to include non-state actors and non-human actors. Proposing an expansive view of non-traditional forms of security that go beyond traditionally recognized issues... -
Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine's Toughest Questions by Jamie Stern-Weiner
RRP: $18.05$11.95A half-century into the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Israel's Occupation at Fifty brings together eminent political leaders, scholars, and activists for a wide-ranging, at times contentious, and remarkably fruitful discussion of the region's... -
Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence by Joseph Pugliese
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities-from soil and orchards to animals and water-are actors and agents in their own right... -
The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran by Robert Spencer
RRP: $21.92$17.87"EITHER THE ISLAMIC STATE WILL DIE, OR WE WILL." New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer details the meteoric rise and unheard-of brutality of ISIS ISIS is in the news every day. The Islamic State is spectacularly dangerous, and curiously... -
Fintech in Islamic Finance: Theory and Practice Umar A. Oseni (Executive Director, International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation, Malaysia) 9781138494800
RRP: $49.01$43.58Featuring high-level analysis of Islamic law, this book examines fintech in Islamic finance from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Whilst building on existing approaches, it also discusses the current application of fintech in promoting... -
Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria by Dr Ammar Azzouz 9781350248106
$128.50The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011. So far, the architectural response to the crisis has focused on 'cultural heritage', ancient architecture, and the external displacement of... -
Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation by Mona El-Ghobashy 9781503628151
RRP: $30.95$27.40A multivocal account of why Egypt's defeated revolution remains a watershed in the country's political history. Bread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt's 2011 revolutionary mobilization, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight-party... -
1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think by Raif Badawi 9781771642095
RRP: $7.73$5.48"Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear"-- Salman Rushdie Raif Badawi, a Saudi Arabian blogger, shared his thoughts on politics, religion, and liberalism online. He was sentenced to 1,000 lashes, ten years in prison, and a fine of 1... -
Iraq since the Invasion: People and Politics in a State of Conflict by Keiko Sakai
RRP: $47.72$41.96This book addresses the complex events and unexpected outcomes of military intervention by the United States and its allies in Iraq in 2003. Considering the long-term outcomes of the intervention, this volume examines economic collapse, societal... -
Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies by Christopher Davidson
RRP: $38.70$34.77In command of the world's largest hydrocarbon reserves and occupying a central role in both Middle Eastern and global politics, the six traditional monarchies -- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- that... -
Betrayal Of Palestine: The Story Of George Antonius Susan Boyle 9780813337593
RRP: $70.94$61.56This definitive biography of George Antonius tells the life story of a man who lived during a dramatic period of history, amid challenge that remains unresolved: the Palestine-Zionist conflict. Betrayal of Palestine is an important and innovative work... -
These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons by Ramzy Baroud
RRP: $25.79$19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762099Author Ramzy BaroudFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *... -
The Modern History of Iraq by Phebe Marr
RRP: $58.04$56.63The Modern History of Iraq is a remarkably readable account of contemporary Iraq, placing in historical perspective the crises and upheavals that continue to afflict the country. This text weaves together several important themes, including the search... -
The Muslim Brotherhood: From Opposition to Power by Alison Pargeter 9780863568596
RRP: $14.18$12.85Although the popular uprisings of 2011 were not driven by Islamist forces, it is the Islamist movements, and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular, that have filled the power vacuums that opened up with the collapse of the regimes of the region. How did... -
Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence and Resistance by Banu Bargu 9781474450270
RRP: $33.53$27.17Building on critical and contemporary theory, these essays address the multiple ways in which the Turkish regime controls its citizens through physical destruction, structural violence and exposure. The 12 case studies include counterinsurgency warfare,... -
Let There Be Water by Seth M Siegel
RRP: $28.37$25.44With hardly a day without a water-crisis story somewhere, Let There Be Water offers prescriptions on how countries, cities, and businesses can avoid the worst of it. With sixty percent of the country in a desert and despite a rapidly growing population,... -
Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies by Courtney Freer 9780190861995
RRP: $113.52$94.53While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so-called "rentier states" where taxes are very low and oil wealth... -
The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey by Kaya Genç 9781350436770
RRP: $19.34$15.16Turkey is a land torn between East and West, between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist... -
The Syrian Conflict: The Role of Russia, Iran and the US in a Global Crisis Ghaidaa Hetou (iStrategic LLC, USA) 9781138349148
RRP: $49.01$43.06This book explores the global impact of the Syrian conflict, and the roles of Russia, Iran and the US in its wake. It looks closely at origins of political turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by analysing the growing influence of... -
Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook by Mehrzad Boroujerdi 9780815635741
$123.35The 1979 revolution fundamentally altered Iran's political landscape as a generation of inexperienced clerics who did not hail from the ranks of the upper class-and were not tainted by association with the old regime-came to power. The actions and... -
A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism: Pattern and Change in Indonesia by Etin Anwar
RRP: $51.59$45.23A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism offers a new insight on the changing relationship between Islam and feminism from the colonial era in the 1900s to the early 1990s in Indonesia.The book juxtaposes both colonial and postcolonial sites to show the changes... -
Contested Politics in Tunisia: Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State by Edwige Fortier
RRP: $39.98$28.24Several thousand new civil society organisations were legally established in Tunisia following the 2010-11 uprising that forced the long-serving dictator, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, from office. These organisations had different visions for a new Tunisia,... -
In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine by Gershon Baskin 9780826521811
RRP: $30.90$24.88Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in the States, then later lived on a kibbutz in Israel,... -
Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West by Gilles Kepel 9780231197038
RRP: $28.38$22.39The Middle East is one of the world's most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisings through the rise and fall of the Islamic State, it has presented key international security challenges... -
Yemen: Poverty and Conflict by Helen Lackner
RRP: $47.72$41.96Focusing on the fundamental reasons underlying the lasting crisis of the Yemeni Civil War, this book frames contemporary Yemen and assesses prospects beyond the conflict, identifying the factors which will determine its future internal and international... -
The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey: Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality by Hilal Alkan 9780755642748
$37.86In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted family and gender policies. Women's central role in reproductive and domestic work was swiftly reaffirmed, and abortion and IVF... -
State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein by Lisa Blaydes 9780691180274
RRP: $45.15$35.78A new account of modern Iraqi politics that overturns the conventional wisdom about its sectarian divisionsHow did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century? The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political... -
Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World by Paul Collier 9780190659158
RRP: $28.37$16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190659158Author Fellow Paul CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 18mm -
Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World by Peter Sluglett 9781788319768
RRP: $32.24$28.10Violent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines why they play such a key role and the different ways in which they have developed. Placing them in the context of the... -
Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began by Bruce Riedel
RRP: $25.79$22.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737292Author Bruce RiedelFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)... -
Covid-19 in Palestine: The Settler Colonial Context Nadia Naser-Najjab (University of Exeter, UK) 9780755651177
RRP: $28.37$23.35Israel and Palestine were worlds apart during the pandemic that claimed over five million lives globally. While Palestinians were forced to adopt crude survival measures and endure economic privations, Israel was praised as a vaccination world leader. ...