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Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System by Jaber Baker 9780755650200
RRP: £25.00£18.49An estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out. Syrians can be arrested for liking a post on Facebook or for the political activities of a distant relative. They are imprisoned without trial, and... -
In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water by James Fergusson
RRP: £18.99£15.65A 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... -
Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War by Micah Goodman
RRP: £12.99£11.46A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author"A must for anyone who wants to understand the tectonic forces underlying Israeli politics."-Rabbi Robert Orkand, Reform... -
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World by Shadi Hamid
RRP: £12.99£11.61Hamid argues for a new understanding of how Islam and Islamism shape politics by examining different models of reckoning with the problem of religion and state, including the terrifying - and alarmingly successful - example of ISIS. With unprecedented... -
Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East by Philip H. Gordon
RRP: £23.99£15.77Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments in the Middle East on an average of around once per decade. It has done so in places as diverse as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan (twice), Egypt, Libya, and Syria - to count only... -
Guest House for Young Widows: among the women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni 9781912854608
RRP: £16.99£15.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR. An intimate, deeply reported account of the women who made a shocking decision: to leave their comfortable lives... -
The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon by Mr. Bassel F. Salloukh
RRP: £27.99£21.57The wave of popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world starting in December 2010 rattled regimes from Morocco to Oman. However, Lebanon's sectarian system proved immune to the domestic and regional pressures unleashed by the Arab Spring. How can... -
Targeting Israeli Apartheid: A Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Handbook by Tom Anderson 9781907738043
RRP: £10.00£9.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907738043Author Tom AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Corporate WatchPublisher Corporate WatchDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 22mm -
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright
RRP: £10.99£7.40Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming... -
Captain Shakespear: Desert exploration, Arabian intrigue and the rise of Ibn Sa'ud by Alan Dillon 9781911487333
RRP: £25.00£20.70Two years before T E Lawrence received orders to travel to the Hejaz to liaise with the leader of the Arab Revolt, other British officers had already roamed the Arabian Peninsula's unforgiving Nejdi desert, to rally tribal support for the British war... -
Father of Lions: How One Man Defied Isis and Saved Mosul Zoo by Louise Callaghan 9781789540772
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Callaghan's portrayal of a city under siege is many-layered and brilliantly told' Sunday Times Iraq, 2014 As ISIS laid terrible siege to Mosul, a zoo on the eastern edge of the Tigris was kept open against all odds. Under the stern hand of the... -
The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History by Bashir Bashir
RRP: £35.00£27.21In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed... -
Qatar and the Arab Spring by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
RRP: £37.50£32.77Qatar and the Arab Spring offers a frank examination of Qatar's startling rise to regional and international prominence, describing how its distinctive policy stance toward the Arab Spring emerged. In only a decade, Qatari policy-makers - led by the... -
The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic by Jonathan Marshall
RRP: £34.00£30.17Long before Mexico, Colombia, and Afghanistan became notorious for their contributions to the global drug traffic, Lebanon was a special target of U.S. drug agents for harboring the world's greatest single transit port in the international traffic in... -
What Is Russia Up To in the Middle East? by Dmitri V. Trenin 9781509522316
RRP: £14.99£11.22The eyes of the world are on the Middle East. Today, more than ever, this deeply-troubled region is the focus of power games between major global players vying for international influence. Absent from this scene for the past quarter century, Russia is... -
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Gripping ... revelatory ... unrivalled' Tom Holland, New Statesman'From Mosul to Melbourne, from Cairo to Tokyo, from London to Oslo, from Connecticut to California: Graeme Wood's quest to understand the Islamic State is a round-the-world journey to the... -
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor 9780446541466
£26.76START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up... -
Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria by Sam Dagher
RRP: £14.99£9.80In 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 pushed for conciliation but Assad decided to crush the uprising -an act which... -
The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf by Abdullah Hamidaddin
RRP: £22.99£18.88The Huthi rebels in Yemen are a resistance movement going back decades. Their coup against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2015 - and the subsequent Yemeni civil war and the intervention of the Arab coalition in support of Hadi - has brought... -
The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East: Iran, Palestine and Beyond by Rasmus C. Elling 9780861547289
RRP: £30.00£20.95In the latter half of the twentieth century, a revolutionary idea promised to upend the global order. Anti-imperialist militancy, bolstered by international solidarity, would lead to not only the national liberation of oppressed peoples but universal... -
The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told US About Iraq by Lakshmi Chaudhry 9781583226445
RRP: £6.99£5.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226445Author Lakshmi ChaudhryFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 206g -
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis 9781608465644
RRP: £12.99£9.87In these essays, interviews and speeches, Angela Y. Davis illuminates connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and... -
Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo by Seth Anziska 9780691202457
RRP: £18.99£14.79A groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessThe 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle... -
9-11: 10th Anniversary Edition by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £8.99£6.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609803438Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 161g -
Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads by David Rundell 9781838605933
RRP: £35.00£29.32'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced history of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.' General David Petraeus, former Commander U.S. Central... -
The British Mandate in Palestine: A Centenary Volume, 1920-2020 by Michael J Cohen
RRP: £39.99£35.06The British Mandate over Palestine began just 100 years ago, in July 1920, when Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner to Palestine, took his seat at Government House, Jerusalem. The chapters here analyse a wide cross-section of the... -
Plowshares into Swords: From Zionism to Israel by Arno Mayer
RRP: £19.95£16.87In this authoritative text, Arno J. Mayer traces the thinkers, leaders and shifting geopolitical contexts that shaped the founding and onward development of the Israeli state. He recovers for posterity internal critics such as the philosopher Martin... -
Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp
RRP: £19.99£13.35A new kind of society is being built in Syria, but it's not one you would expect. Surrounded by deadly bands of ISIS and hostile Turkish forces, the people living in Syria's Rojava cantons are carving out one of the most radically progressive societies... -
Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary
RRP: £14.99£9.80The history of modern Afghanistan is an epic drama, a thriller, a tragedy, a surreal farce. Every forty years or so, over the last two centuries, some great global power has attempted to take control of Afghanistan, only to slink away wounded and... -
Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring by Bassem Youssef
£13.45"Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn't take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem." --Jon Stewart "The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World"-the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt's history-chronicles his... -
King Faisal And The Modernisation Of Saudi Arabia by Willard A. Beling
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book derives from papers presented at a conference convened in Santa Barbara in 1978, focusing on King Faisal and his era. It describes how Saudi Arabia became an important actor in international politics, the end of bedouin-style Arabia, social... -
Broadcasting Change: Arabic Media as a Catalyst for Liberalism by Joseph Braude 9781538101285
RRP: £41.00£6.38Amid civil war, failing states, and terrorism, Arab liberals are growing in numbers and influence. Advocating a culture of equity, tolerance, good governance, and the rule of law, they work through some of the region's largest media outlets to spread... -
Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Teach Yourself by Stewart Ross
RRP: £12.99£8.60Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is the essential guide to one of the world's most distressing confrontations. Putting the present situation into its broader context and examining all perspectives, it unravels the origins and development of... -
Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran by Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar
RRP: £25.00£19.18Since the 1979 revolution, scholars and policy makers alike have tended to see Iranian political actors as religiously driven-dedicated to overturning the international order in line with a theologically prescribed outlook. This provocative book argues... -
The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice by Dilar Dirik
RRP: £18.99£12.75'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha Walia The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle,... -
Father of Lions: How One Man Defied Isis and Saved Mosul Zoo by Louise Callaghan
RRP: £20.00£17.62'Callaghan's portrayal of a city under siege is many-layered and brilliantly told' Sunday Times Iraq, 2014 As ISIS laid terrible siege to Mosul, a zoo on the eastern edge of the Tigris was kept open against all odds. Under the stern hand of the... -
Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist Europe: Reviewing the Transition by Timothy Edmunds 9781138376694
RRP: £32.99£29.16Fifteen years after the fall of communism, we are able to appraise the results of the multi-faceted postcommunist transition in Central and Eastern Europe with authority. This volume specifically addresses the fascinating area of Civil-Military relations... -
Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation by Nick Riemer
RRP: £30.00£27.49The academic boycott of Israel, a branch of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is one of the richest - and most divisive - topics in the politics of knowledge today. In Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine,... -
Let There be Water: Israel'S Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel
£14.74With 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,... -
Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR by Bruce Riedel
RRP: £19.99£18.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737155Author Bruce RiedelFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...