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An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville by Reza Aslan
RRP: £23.99£20.51Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel... -
The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East by Abraham Rabinovich 9780805211245
RRP: £18.99£14.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211245Author Abraham RabinovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)... -
Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee 9781782692997
RRP: £8.99£5.82Pip never wants to be at home nowadays. There's no laughter anymore and her mum isn't happy. She spends most of her time alone, daydreaming and digging for treasure by the dirty creek. But one night, Pip finds something incredible - a dragon. Tiny,... -
The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible by Matti Friedman
RRP: £10.99£8.29"A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended." -Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was... -
Sayeret Matkal: The Greatest Operations of Israel's Elite Commandos by Avner Shur
RRP: £20.00£16.34Sayeret Matkal depicts the greatest operations of Israel's elite commando force from the perspective of the people who were there-the soldiers and their commanders, many of whom became Israel's top leaders and politicians: people such as Benjamin... -
21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach 9780874868395
RRP: £18.99£12.93Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants... -
Saladin by John Man 9780306825422
RRP: £17.99£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825422Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Salman Abu Sitta 9789774168338
RRP: £24.99£20.29Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss... -
Six-Day War 1967 by Shlomo Aloni 9781472835277
RRP: £16.99£12.28On one day in June, the balance of air power in the Middle East was turned upside down by perhaps the most ruthlessly effective air superiority campaign in history - Operation Moked, or Focus. In 1967, the Israeli Air Force was outnumbered... -
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial by Somdeep Sen
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation... -
Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Nile Green
RRP: £10.49£7.44This 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... -
Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR by Bruce Riedel
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies 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)... -
Bombers at Suez: The RAF Bombing Campaign During the Suez War, 1956 by John Dillon 9781914377167
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377167Author John DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Peacock Angel: The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis by Peter Lamborn Wilson
RRP: £17.99£11.67An examination of the beliefs and history of the secretive Yezidi sect* Explains how the Yezidis worship Melek Ta'us, the Peacock Angel, an enigmatic figure often identified as "the devil" or Satan, yet who has been redeemed by God to rule a world of... -
The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature by Remke Kruk 9781848859272
£26.43Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast... -
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies 9780500283714
RRP: £14.95£10.18New in paperback, this is a fully illustrated volume on the discovery, meaning and significance of all the Dead Sea Scrolls by acknowledged experts in the field. Offering intriguing historical and religious insights into the period of authorship, from... -
Lens on Syria: A Photographic Tour of Its Ancient and Modern Culture by Daniel Demeter 9781682570074
RRP: £26.95£22.34Thousands of remarkable monuments and relics fill the land of Syria from the coast of the Mediterranean to its desert borders, dating back to the dawn of human history. The sites include: Bronze Age ruins, Roman temples and necropolises, churches and... -
Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector by Sara Roy
RRP: £28.00£21.80Many 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... -
The Passionate Spies: How Gertrude Bell, St. John Philby and Lawrence of Arabia Led the Arab Revolt. And How Saudi Arabia Was Founded by John Harte
RRP: £16.99£11.67This is the true story of how three British Secret Service agents from the Arab Bureau in Cairo helped General Allenby defeat Germany's ally, the Turks, and end World War One. Lawrence of Arabia reignited a failing Arab Revolt by training and leading a... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land by Robert G. Hoyland
£37.23The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the origins of the... -
Palestine Papers 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict by Doreen Ingrams 9781906011383
RRP: £13.99£9.20This book brings the forgotten pages of history back to passionate life. Doreen Ingrams has sieved through secret cabinet documents, Foreign and War office memorandum and their cryptic annotations to observe the creation of a Zionist homeland out of the... -
Let There be Water: Israel'S Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel
£14.26With 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,... -
The Young Turks in Opposition by M. Sukru Hanioglu 9780195091151
RRP: £88.00£73.68This is the first in-depth study of the secret society called CUP (Committee of Union and Progress), based on their own papers. It pays special attention to the Young Turks as an intellectual movement which continues to influence the thinking of Turkish... -
Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir by Zena el Khalil
RRP: £8.99£6.20This is the story of Zena, a young woman who has fallen under the spell of a city that threatens to engulf her in war, grief and love affairs. In the streets armed militias carve out their territories, while ragged construction workers rebuild the... -
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
RRP: £29.00£22.94In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does... -
A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem by Yair Wallach
RRP: £21.99£19.19In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman modernization and British colonial rule transformed the city; new texts became a key means to... -
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Benny Morris 9780674916456
£32.66A 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,... -
Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations by Avi Shlaim 9781844676569
RRP: £25.99£21.12With characteristic rigor and readability, Avi Shlaim reflects on a range of key issues, transformations and personalities in the Israel-Palestine conflict. From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the 2008 invasion of Gaza, Israel and Palestine places... -
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid 9781786075154
RRP: £10.99£7.77New York Times Notable Books of 2018 Financial Times Book of the Year Award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid presents reportage of unprecedented scope in this engaging, character-driven investigation that exposes the secret dealings that armed and... -
A Short History of the Mughal Empire by Michael Fisher
RRP: £14.99£14.34The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of... -
Power Couple: Russian-Iranian Alignment in the Middle East by Ghoncheh Tazmini 9780755640454
RRP: £19.99£16.54Cooperation 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... -
Rethinking Chinese Politics by Joseph Fewsmith 9781108926607
RRP: £30.99£19.99Understanding Chinese politics has become more important than ever. Some argue that China's political system is 'institutionalized' or that 'win all/lose all' struggles are a thing of the past, but, Joseph Fewsmith argues, as in all Leninist systems,... -
Innovation and Empire in Turkey: Sultan Selim III and the Modernisation of the Ottoman Navy by Tuncay Zorlu
£37.67Ottoman naval technology underwent a transformation under the rule of Sultan Selim III. New types of sailing warships such as two- and three-decked galleons, frigates and corvettes began to dominate the Ottoman fleet, rendering the galley-type oared... -
Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue by Konrad Hirschler 9781474426398
RRP: £32.99£27.62This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus and edits its catalogue.About the AuthorKonrad Hirschler is Professor of History of... -
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers by Jack Tannous 9780691203157
RRP: £28.00£22.20A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and... -
Being Arab by Samir Kassir
£11.41Before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir was one of Lebanon's foremost public intellectuals. In Being Arab, a thought-provoking assessment of Arab identity, he calls on the people of the Middle East to reject both Western double standards and... -
These Bodies of Water: Notes on the British Empire, the Middle East and Where We Meet by Sabrina Mahfouz
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Sabrina Mahfouz is a tidal wave of truth swallowing the banks of empire with a torrent of information which will not be damned' Lemn Sissay'A bold, brave look at the ways imperialism affects us all, from the universally political to the insightfully... -
Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation by William R Polk 9780060764692
RRP: £14.99£9.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060764692Author William R PolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 207mm *... -
An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
RRP: £12.99£10.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148858Author Levison WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures by James B. Pritchard
RRP: £50.00£43.54James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peoples and cultures of this important region. Now these two enduring works have been combined and integrated...