Middle East

A perfectly-sized NKJV Bible that's easy to read and lightweight to take with you wherever you go.With a variety of unique and traditional cover designs available, this Bible is beautiful inside and out. Fitting most purses, laptop bags, and glove boxes,...

'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...

Farsi is the official language of Iran, where over 67 million people speak its standard form. This phrase book and dictionary contains all the essential aspects of the language, detailing the alphabet and grammar, as well as listing a number of...

At a time when a lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of the longest-running conflict in the Middle East is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid...

The Ismailis are the second-largest Shi'i community in the world today, settled in over 25 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America. They are the only Muslims to follow a living spiritual guide of their community, the...

The Husayni family of Jerusalem dominated Palestinian history for 250 years, from the Ottoman times through to the end of the British Mandate. At the height of the family's political influence, positions in Jerusalem could only be obtained through its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735786407Author Mary Nell WyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Royal Hill PressPublisher Royal Hill PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Physical, sensory, and mental impairments can influence an individual's status in society as much as the more familiar categories of gender, class, religion, race, and ethnicity. This was especially true of the early modern Arab Ottoman world, where...

This cohesive account of Egypt's millennia-long past offers readers a sure guide through the corridors of Egypt's past, from the mysterious predynastic kingdoms to the nation-state of the twenty-first century. The author addresses central issues such as...

'Fascinating' Guardian, 'Book of the Day''A truly masterly book... A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.' Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for 2022Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542004480Author Neda Toloui-SemnaniFormat HardbackImprint Little APublisher Amazon Publishing

Since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, galvanizing the Arab uprisings that continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that were unimaginable years before. In spite of the early hype...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863669Author Alan HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739393205Author T E LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint DaredevilPublisher DaredevilWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 23mm

It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events--from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Jewish Book Award 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780307741615Author Bruce HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863690Author Alan HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 391Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017'An eye-opening, well-written and very timely book' Yuval Noah Harari'The best sort of book for our disordered days: timely, urgent and illuminating' Pankaj Mishra'It strikes a blow...for common humanity'...

Lasting 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...

The widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and the internalisation of its norms has set in motion a simplistic definitional logic for dealing with social problems that has impoverished discussions of racism and prejudice more...

In May 1978 Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser visited Israel at the time of the 30th Anniversary of Independence. It was three years after they first lived together; neither had set foot in Israel before. Based in Jerusalem, they toured many of the...

A political theorist teases out the century-old ideological transformation at the heart of contemporary discourse in Muslim nations undergoing political change.The Arab Spring precipitated a crisis in political Islam. In Egypt Islamists have been crushed...

Writing about Palestine and the Palestinians continue to be controversial. Until the late 1980s, the question of Palestine was approached through Western social theories that had appeared after World War 2. This endowed European settlers and colonists...

Julie Peteet offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle East. These sacred structures date back to the Bronze and Iron Ages and have evolved through the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine,...

An updated edition of this best-selling introduction to the conflict. With coverage of all the recent events, the new edition of this best-selling book gives a thorough and accessible account of the history behind the Palestine-Israeli conflict, its...

If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions,...

Of immense significance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Holy Land has been attracting visitors since the fifth century BC. Covering all the main sites both in the city of Jerusalem and throughout the Holy Land and including over 150 high...

Ancient, medieval and modern, this book is a critical account of the historical, political and cultural roots of Zionism. Scrutinising the roots of the myths of Zionism and mobilising recent scholarship, John Rose shows how many of these stories, as...

_______________ 'A memoir to inspire' - Aminatta Forna 'I cannot recommend this book highly enough' - Nassim Assefi, author of Aria 'Fascinating insight on a topic much discussed but rarely understood from a human perspective. Recommended...

VOLUME 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...

The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. But what is our connection to the ancient Near East? In this updated edition of What Makes Civilization? archaeologist David Wengrow...

aEUROoeThe conflict is only aEURO~seemingly' beyond solution, because all historical-political problems have solutions, if there is enough courage, honesty, and steadfastness.aEURO In Chosen?, Walter ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914325229Author Vyvyan KinrossFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad PublishingWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

2012 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...

In Queer in Translation, Evren Savci analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP government. Under the AKP's neoliberal...

A captivating WW2 love story from the bestselling author of EAST OF THE SUN, a Richard & Judy selection.1942 and the world is at war. It is a war that has already shattered families and devastated countries. But for some, it will also mean the greatest...

By employing the same basic methodologies used to establish the currently accepted chronology, it has been possible for a group of young archaeologists, including David Rohl, to create a New Chronology which resolves many of the problems permeating...

From the bestselling author of 'Fighter Boys', the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the modern world. On a cold, bright morning in February 1942, fugitive Avraham Stern was cornered in a flat in Tel-Aviv...

There are few more compelling and more tragic issues in the world today than the bitter struggle between Palestinians and Israelis. Their tiny patch of land, desperately crowded and with few resources, has been a focus for so many years of rival claims...

Ur, one of the world's first cities, was highly important politically and economically around 2600 - 2500 BC when the Sumerian rulers of the city were buried in tombs filled with ornate, valuable objects and with evidence of elaborate rituals and human...