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Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Struggle For Palestinian Civil Rights by Omar Barghouti
RRP: £19.99£13.33From 'Operation Cast Lead' to the recent assault on the Gaza flotilla, both the severity and the notoriety of Israel's many human rights abuses have begun to seep into the public consciousness and convince a growing international audience of the... -
Gaza: A History Jean-Pierre Filiu 9781911723592
RRP: £14.99£13.84Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed, yet enduringly neglected. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai deserts and the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza was contested by everyone from the Pharaohs, Persians, Greeks and Romans... -
A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels Among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq Gavin Maxwell 9780907871934
RRP: £12.99£8.83The Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq were one of the most isolated communities in the world. Few outsiders, let alone Europeans, had been permitted to travel through their homeland, a mass of tiny islands lost in a wilderness of reeds and swamps in southern... -
An Unreasonable Man by Leslie Turnberg 9781805140634
RRP: £14.99£10.95Pinchas Rutenberg was the man who electrified Palestine in more ways than one. A Russian revolutionary and an assassin who plotted the murder of Lenin and Trotsky, he escaped the Bolsheviks, finishing up at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. There he... -
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia by Jean Bottero
RRP: £24.00£23.03One of the world's foremost experts on Assyriology, Jean Bottero has studied the religion of ancient Mesopotamia for more than fifty years. Building on these many years of research, Bottero here presents the definitive account of one of the world's... -
The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions Arash Azizi 9780861541171
RRP: £10.99£7.21'An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.' Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave When the US assassinated Qassem Soleimani, he was one of the most powerful men in Iran. Known as 'the shadow commander', he enacted the wishes of the... -
KJV, The King James Study Bible, Genuine Leather, Black, Full-Color Edition: Holy Bible, King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780718079895
RRP: £120.00£80.47The full text of the classic King James Version with robust study notes, vibrant full-color images, and dozens of study resources to help you grow deeper in your faith. Published in large easy-to-read print type. Standing apart from all other KJV study... -
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron 9780393353242
RRP: £12.99£11.46The 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... -
The Arab of the Future: Volume 1: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 - A Graphic Memoir by Riad Sattouf
RRP: £19.99£13.55VOLUME 1 IN THE UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CHILDHOODThe Arab of the Future tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of three dictators - Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father.A GUARDIAN BOOK... -
A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life Her Majesty Queen Noor 9780753817568
RRP: £12.99£8.83The dramatic and inspiring story of one woman's incredible journey into the heart of a man and his nation.Born into a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Halaby was a strongly independent young woman. After studying architecture at Princeton, her... -
Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean by Amanda Phillips
RRP: £55.00£43.91Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in all of world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire in particular, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons, and woolens generated an immense amount of revenue and touched every level of... -
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
RRP: £27.00£22.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560685Author Gayle Tzemach LemmonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm)... -
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s battle for its inner soul by Isabel Kershner 9781915590220
RRP: £25.00£16.13One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books for 2023 A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people at a critical juncture in their country's history. Despite Israel's determined... -
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 Benny Morris 9780674916456
£32.90A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities.Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities,... -
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
RRP: £9.99£6.84In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant... -
A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 9781844081400
RRP: £10.99£7.61A fascinating, personal and insightful account of the Iraq war from the bestselling author of THE BOOKSELLER OF KABULIn January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its... -
Can We Talk about Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch
RRP: £25.00£17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573879Author Daniel SokatchFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 596g -
Alexandria: A History and Guide by E.M. Forster
RRP: £14.99£11.75With a novelist's pen, Forster brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and... -
Freud and the Non-European by Edward W. Said
£16.80Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in... -
The Great Seljuk Empire by A. C. S. Peacock
RRP: £29.99£24.95The first textbook introduction to the history of the Great Seljuk Islamic Empire to be published in English. The Great Seljuk Empire was the Turkish state which dominated the Middle East and Central Asia in the 11th and 12th centuries. This book surveys... -
The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture by Karen Radner
£41.89The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia... -
The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century by Hugh Kennedy 9780367366896
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600 to 1050 AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed. Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, Hugh Kennedy goes on to explore the... -
Love In A Torn Land Jean Sasson 9780553818147
RRP: £8.99£6.65Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq.One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds... -
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £16.99£12.47________________ 'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman 'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you' -... -
Shi'i Islam: An Introduction by Najam Haider 9781107625785
RRP: £22.99£19.56During the formative period of Islam, in the first centuries after Muhammad's death, two particular intellectual traditions emerged, Sunnism and Shi'ism. Sunni Muslims endorsed the historical caliphate, while Shi'i Muslims, supporters of 'Ali, cousin of... -
Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression by Kevin Mazur
RRP: £30.99£26.77How does protest advancing diverse claims turn into violent conflict occurring primarily along ethnic lines? This book examines that question in the context of Syria, drawing insight from the evolution of conflict at the local level. Kevin Mazur shows... -
Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook by Charles Perry 9781479800810
RRP: £12.99£11.70Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the "greater part of the pleasure of this life," namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the... -
A History of Algeria by James McDougall
RRP: £25.99£22.29Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing on substantial new scholarship... -
Chronicles of the First Crusade by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £12.99£9.34'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!'The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of Western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the... -
Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Nile Green
RRP: £10.49£7.66This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing... -
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine Diana Allan 9780745342917
RRP: £22.99£15.40***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to 'disaster' or 'catastrophe' - lays... -
Striking Back by Aaron J Klein 9780812974638
RRP: £16.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974638Author Aaron J KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 302g -
Hamas: From Resistance to Government by Paola Caridi 9781609803827
RRP: £15.99£11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609803827Author Paola CaridiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 585g -
The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner 9781592642786
RRP: £22.99£21.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Biography/Autobiography) 2010 and National Jewish Book Award (History) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781592642786Author Yehuda... -
Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium to Her Journals by Elizabeth Peters 9780060538118
RRP: £29.95£21.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Agatha Awards (Nonfiction) 2003. Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Critical/Biographical) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780060538118Author Elizabeth... -
The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad by Mamar Ibn Rashid 9781479816828
RRP: £12.99£11.77One of the earliest surviving biographies of Prophet Muhammad, translated into readable, modern English for the first time The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author,... -
Rules of Engagement Tim Collins 9780755313754
RRP: £10.99£7.61From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier and thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for... -
The Cretan War (1645-1671): The Venetian-Ottoman Struggle in the Mediterranean by Bruno Mugnai 9781911628040
RRP: £29.95£21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628040Author Bruno MugnaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw 9780198793281
RRP: £10.99£7.99Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre. Pygmalion (1912) was a world-wide smash hit from the time of its premiere in Vienna 1913 and it has remained... -
My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Crisis by Diana Darke 9781908323996
RRP: £14.99£10.96How did Syria's revolution lose its way? Drawing on the author's firsthand knowledge of the country's complex religious and ethnic communities, this book illuminates the darker recesses of Syria's history, politics, and society. With the unique...