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Red Line: The Unravelling of Syria and the Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World by Joby Warrick
RRP: $18.85$13.33From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing true story of the mission to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS - only to lose control of both.'Presents [the story] sharply and compellingly' Washington... -
Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector by Sara Roy
RRP: $42.88$36.64Many in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda. Based on Sara Roy's extensive fieldwork in the Gaza Strip and West... -
Power Couple: Russian-Iranian Alignment in the Middle East by Ghoncheh Tazmini 9780755640454
RRP: $34.29$28.37Cooperation between Iran and Russia has expanded to unprecedented levels. Following the Russian offensive in Ukraine, their partnership has undergone a significant transformation, altering power dynamics and elevating Iran from a junior partner to an... -
Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Michael Axworthy
RRP: $18.85$13.33Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct civilization today despite its status as a major Islamic state with broad regional influence and its deep integration... -
Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework by Cihan Dizdaro?lu 9781474492102
RRP: $145.80$118.84A critical perspective on the vicious cycle of improvement and deterioration in Greek-Turkish relations Provides trends of securitisation and desecuritisation to present the political nature of securitisation by either the military bureaucrats or... -
Yemen in Crisis: The Road to War by Helen Lackner 9781788735537
$32.44The democratic promise of the 2011 Arab Spring has unraveled in Yemen, triggering a disastrous crisis of civil war, famine, militarization, and governmental collapse with serious implications for the future of the region.Fueled by Arab and Western... -
The Nakba Ends in Gaza: Reimagining the Boundaries of Possibility by Jehad Abusalim
RRP: $82.33$55.37Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to understanding Palestinian experience.Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel... -
Dreams And Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright 9780143114895
$24.85Apologies 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... -
A Dangerous Delusion: Why the West is Wrong About Nuclear Iran by Peter Oborne 9781908739896
RRP: $15.42$10.34In 2013 it is possible that Israel, backed by the United States, will launch an attack on Iran. This would be a catastrophic event, risking war, bloodshed and global economic collapse. In this passionate, but rationally argued essay, the authors attempt... -
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert
RRP: $37.74$32.78Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the postcolonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and work, the popular media has... -
Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman by Alice Wilson 9781503635784
RRP: $44.58$37.81The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965-1976, in an attempt to depose Oman's British-backed Sultan and advance social ideals of egalitarianism and gender equality. Dhufar, the southernmost governorate in today's Sultanate, captured global attention... -
International Security Studies: Theory and Practice by Peter Hough 9780367109868
RRP: $61.73$56.07This new and updated edition of International Security Studies provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the subject of security studies, with a strong emphasis on the use of case studies to illustrate theoretical debates.In addition to... -
A Small Key Can Open a Large Door: The Rojava Revolution by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness 9781938660177
RRP: $25.73$16.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938660177Author Strangers in a Tangled WildernessFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Strangers in a Tangled WildernessPublisher Strangers in a Tangled... -
Behind Enemy Lies: War, News and Chaos in the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn
RRP: $18.85$15.33In 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... -
From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE by Christopher M. Davidson 9781787383937
RRP: $60.04$52.57Muhammad bin Salman Al-Saud and Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the respective princely strongmen of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have torn up the old rules. They have spurred game-changing economic master plans, presided over vast anti-corruption crackdowns,... -
Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth by Asaf Elia-Shalev 9780520294318
RRP: $39.45$31.44The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israel's Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan Israeli Jews who challenged their country's political status quo and rebelled... -
Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings by Abdullah Ocalan 9788293064374
RRP: $34.31$27.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064374Author Abdullah OEcalanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Communalism PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflic: Eighth Revised and Updated Edition by Walter Laquer
RRP: $30.86$27.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110057Author Walter LaqueurFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 212mm... -
Matzpen: A History of the Israeli Left by Lutz Fiedler
RRP: $53.17$44.00This book explores the history of the Israeli Socialist Organization Matzpen (compass) that splintered off from the Communist Party of Israel in 1962. After the Six Day War of June 1967, Matzpen shook Israeli society, calling for a withdrawal from... -
The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory by Nur Masalha 9781848139701
RRP: $41.15$35.922012 marks the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba - the most traumatic catastrophe that ever befell Palestinians. This book explores new ways of remembering and commemorating the Nakba. In the context of Palestinian oral history, it explores 'social history... -
Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt by Hazem Kandil
RRP: $36.00$30.34One of the most momentous events in the Arab uprisings that swept across the Middle East in 2011 was the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. As dramatic and sudden as this seemed, it was only one further episode in an ongoing power struggle between... -
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson
RRP: $22.28$14.68When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs' military leader, Prince Faisal,... -
Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics by Ann Elizabeth Mayer
RRP: $75.46$65.94Islam and Human Rights is a probing examination of how the Islamic tradition has been exploited for political ends by regimes and institutions seeking to legitimize policies inimical to human rights. Ann Elizabeth Mayer critically appraises Islamic human... -
Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran by Medea Benjamin
RRP: $22.28$14.80U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance... -
Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History by Laurence Louer 9780691186610
RRP: $42.88$32.90A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had... -
Covid-19 in Palestine: The Settler Colonial Context by Nadia Naser-Najjab 9780755651177
RRP: $37.72$31.05Israel 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. ... -
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS by Azad Cudi
RRP: $10.27$7.74'A book to marvel at, learn from, and return to again and again' John le CarreThe incredible inside story of a Kurdish sniper in the battle against ISIS As Syria imploded in civil war in 2011, Kurdish volunteers in the north rose up to free their... -
The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay by Christopher Clapham
RRP: $34.29$29.91Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contemporary nation-states, despite... -
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron 9780393353242
RRP: $22.28$19.66The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Orthodox Jew Yigal Amir, twenty years ago this November, remains the most consequential event in the country's recent history. Killing a King relates parallel stories over the two years leading up to the... -
Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation by Cate Malek
RRP: $39.43$33.09For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the center of one of the world's most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises. In Palestine Speaks men and women from the West Bank and Gaza describe in their own words how their... -
Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998 by Benny Morris 9780679744757
$30.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for National Jewish Book Awards 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780679744757Author Benny MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City by Philip Mansel
RRP: $25.71$19.67A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city,... -
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson 9781611856392
RRP: $42.88$29.14When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs' military leader, Prince Faisal,... -
The Passion by Patrick Keddie
RRP: $60.04$45.66In 1981 a young semi-professional footballer - known as `Imam Beckenbauer' for his piety and his dominant style of play - has his career cut short after a confrontation with Turkey's military junta. His name was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and three decades... -
Libya's Fragmentation by Wolfram Lacher
RRP: $42.87$37.36Shortlisted for the Conflict Research Society's 2021 Book of the Year Prize Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society 2021 Book Prize After the overthrow of the Qadhafi regime in 2011, Libya witnessed a dramatic breakdown of centralized... -
My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace by Ehud Barak
RRP: $42.88$30.91From the former Prime Minister and most decorated solder in Israel's history, this is essential reading to understand today's Israel-Palestine conflict and the precarious path to a two-state solution.'There is scarcely one of Israel's security or... -
Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, War, and the Failure of International Diplomacy by Alex J. Bellamy
RRP: $51.46$39.83The suffering of Syrian civilians, caught between the government's barrel bombs and chemical weapons and religious fanatics' beheadings and mass killings, shocked the world. Yet despite international law and political commitments proclaiming a... -
Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel by Mahdi Amel
RRP: $42.88$32.26Mahdi Amel (1936-87) was a prominent Arab Marxist thinker and Lebanese Communist Party member. For the first time in English, this collection makes available lengthy excerpts from six major works by Mahdi Amel. These include the two founding texts on... -
Palestine in Turmoil: The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933-1939 (Vol. II) by Monty Noam Penkower 9781618113177
RRP: $133.78$126.47This comprehensive account examines the growing conflict between Arab and Jew in Palestine that first surfaced clearly in the pivotal years 1933-1939, and which proved to be an irreconcilable rift once the leadership of both peoples refused to accept... -
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps: Defining Iran's Military Doctrine by Alma Keshavarz 9781350255654
RRP: $37.72$33.07The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran's IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian...