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American Diplomacy Toward Lebanon: Lessons in Foreign Policy and the Middle East by David Hale 9780755652228
$28.39Lebanon's significance to the Middle East and the global arena is greater than its small size suggests - bordering Israel and Syria, it holds a geo-strategic role as the playing field for their competition as well as for their allies, America and Iran... -
Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East by Yonah Jeremy Bob 9781668014561
RRP: $24.50$15.83The remarkable story of how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar-and diplomacy-to thwart Iran's development of nuclear weapons and, in the process, reshaped the Middle East.Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare,... -
Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993 by Yezid Sayigh 9780198292654
$130.52This masterly new work spans an entire epoch in the history of the contemporary Palestinian national movement, from the establishment of Israel in mandate Palestine in 1948, to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993. Contrary to the conventional view that... -
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart by Scott Anderson 9781509852963
RRP: $10.31$7.66In 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... -
Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East by John Chalcraft 9780521189422
RRP: $34.82$29.93The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the importance of contentious politics in the Middle East and North Africa. John Chalcraft's ground-breaking... -
New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar Jean-Loup Samaan 9780755650712
RRP: $32.24$28.10In the last decade, rulers in Gulf regimes have aspired to greater strategic autonomy and distance from the West. Coined the "Gulf moment" by local commentators, this regional trend reflects a redistribution of power in the Arab world. This is the first... -
The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope by Munther Isaac 9780830831999
RRP: $21.92$14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830831999Author Munther IsaacFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
Oil Leaders: An Insider's Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy by Ibrahim AlMuhanna
RRP: $38.70$30.56Oil is an unusual commodity in that individual decisions can have an outsized effect on the market. OPEC+'s choice to increase production, for instance, might send prices falling, affecting both oil producers and consumers worldwide. What do the leading... -
Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime by Joseph Sassoon 9780521149150
RRP: $37.40$28.24The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence... -
Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Civilization: the Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings: Volume 1 by Abdullah Ocalan 9788293064428
RRP: $19.34$19.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064428Author Abdullah OcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Compass PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays by Alan Johnson 9781032344713
RRP: $49.01$43.58Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary Left antisemitism.The rise of a new and largely left-wing form of antisemitism in the era of the Jewish state and the distinction between it and... -
Syria: A Modern History David W. Lesch 9781509527526
RRP: $21.92$14.89Today Syria is a country known for all the wrong reasons: civil war, vicious sectarianism, and major humanitarian crisis. But how did this once rich, multi-cultural society end up as the site of one of the twenty-first century's most devastating and... -
Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazali and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm by Shoaib Ahmed Malik
RRP: $50.30$44.14This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This... -
Iran: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Ansari
RRP: $11.60$8.32Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and... -
Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War by Yaakov Katz
RRP: $36.11$27.72The shadow war between Israel and Iran has been raging for more than three decades, ever since the Iranian revolution of 1979 ushered in a fundamentalist regime whose sworn enemies have consistently included, first and foremost, Israel and the United... -
In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water by James Fergusson
RRP: $24.50$20.19A writer's travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River-exploring the long conflict over water supply Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has diverted the River Jordan via pipes and canals to... -
Deception: Pakistan, The United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy by Adrian Levy 9781843545354
RRP: $38.70$29.09Deception reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West, while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. It also reveals the much larger deception: how every American... -
An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America by William Youmans 9780190655723
RRP: $36.75$35.49In 2006, the Al Jazeera Media Network sought to penetrate the United States media sphere, the world's most influential national market for English language news. These unyielding ambitions surprised those who knew the network as the Arab media service... -
Oman: Politics and Society in the Qaboos State by Marc Valeri
RRP: $28.38$25.18Based on years of firsthand research, Marc Valeri treats the political career of Sultan Qaboos as a case study of the social and political mechanisms that perpetuate authoritarianism in post-colonial states. He examines the way in which Sultan Qaboos... -
The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring by Paul Danahar
RRP: $21.92$15.84The Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. A movement for democratic change has dissolved into chaos and bloodshed. States are collapsing. Out of a wave of sectarian fervour unleashed by these changes has emerged the merciless cruelty of Islamic... -
Dreams And Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright 9780143114895
$18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Times Notable Book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114895Author Robin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Israel's National Security, the Arab Position, and Its Complicated Relations with the United States by Ehud Eilam 9781666907506
RRP: $104.49$91.67During the Syrian civil war in late 2013, Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, which almost brought the United States into the war. However, this was prevented by an agreement that disarmed Assad from most of his chemical weapons. This showed the... -
Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine by Lara Sheehi 9781032078694
RRP: $50.30$44.14Heavily influenced by Frantz Fanon and critically engaging the theories of decoloniality and liberatory psychoanalysis, Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi platform the lives, perspectives, and insights of psychoanalytically inflected Palestinian... -
The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East by Janine di Giovanni 9781526625854
RRP: $14.18$10.02**Longlisted Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** 'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with passion and literary grace' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Janine di Giovanni is a humane and persistent witness' HISHAM MATAR 'Profoundly moving' MARK... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun
RRP: $29.67$22.39"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call... -
On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine by Judith Butler 9781608467617
RRP: $21.92$15.05When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be addressed is how the deployment of false... -
Responses to 7 October: Law and Society by Rosa Freedman 9781032805535
RRP: $24.50$21.76Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East by Abdel Monem Said Aly
RRP: $56.75$50.17Lasting over 120 years, the Arab-Israeli conflict involves divergent narratives about history, national identities, land ownership, injustices and victimhood. Domestic forces and actors as well as international and regional dynamics have ensured the... -
Pakistan on the Brink: The future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West by Ahmed Rashid
RRP: $20.63$14.98Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent Into Chaos and Taliban, charts the latest developments in the dangerous trajectory of one of the world's most strategically important, and volatile, countries - and the effects on its neighbours and us all'An expert's... -
The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity Puk Damsgard 9781786490568
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Number One International BestsellerThe dramatic story of freelance photographer Daniel Rye, who was held hostage for 13 months by ISIS, as told by an award-winning writer.In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held... -
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare by Narges Bajoghli 9781503637801
RRP: $24.50$21.57Sanctions have enormous consequences. Especially when imposed by a country with the economic influence of the United States, sanctions induce clear shockwaves in both the economy and political culture of the targeted state, and in the everyday lives of... -
The Way of the Knife: The Cia, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti 9780143125013
RRP: $28.37$18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125013Author Mark MazzettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Different Perspectives on the Syrian Reality: Research in the Diverse Fields of Syrian Culture by Alina Oueishek
RRP: $28.38$23.71This unique collection from Syria presents research papers focusing on topics in cultural research that are relevant to the current Syrian situation, especially with regard to the fundamental changes in the relationship of Syrians to the society they... -
Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk Lara Marlowe 9781801102520
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Irish Times bestseller 'A gripping tale of savagery and courage' Noam Chomsky 'Fascinating and captivating' Irish Times 'A beautiful book... Full of pain and longing but also joy, adventure, and excitement' Janine di Giovanni 'A superb... -
War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of Isis, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran by Patrick Cockburn
RRP: $24.50$17.27In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East.Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and... -
Iraq against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order by Samuel Helfont
RRP: $33.53$28.37The move away from post-Cold War unipolarity and the rise of revisionist states like Russia and China pose a rapidly escalating and confounding threat for the liberal international order. In Iraq against the World, Samuel Helfont offers a new narrative... -
Behind the Kingdom's Veil: Inside the New Saudi Arabia Under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman by Susanne Koelbl
RRP: $32.19$21.53A First-Hand Look at Saudi Arabian Life as Few Outsiders Have Seen It"It's like watching a movie - just better," Dr. Elisabeth Kendall, Oxford University, Arabic and Islamic Studies.2020 Finalist Sarton Women's Literary Award for Nonfiction#1 Bestseller... -
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness by Kenneth M. Pollack
RRP: $39.33$28.74Since World War II, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight--they have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments. Over time, soldiers,... -
The Mint: Lawrence After Arabia by T E Lawrence
RRP: $16.76$12.63Lawrence's own account of his experience after the Arab Revolt - when he joined the RAF under a new name. In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though... -
Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World? Tom Doyle 9780849947209
RRP: $18.05$12.58What would you do if Jesus appeared to you in a dream and told you to follow Him? What if these visions continued for over thirty days? And what if you were Muslim?Pastor Tom Doyle has spent eleven years as a full-time missionary in the Middle East and...