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Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant Michael Vatikiotis 9781474613217
RRP: £9.99£7.00In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine in search of opportunity. In the process, he reveals a... -
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World by John Baines 9781800500266
£35.62Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern... -
My Life with the Taliban by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef
RRP: £16.99£15.31Abdul Zaeef describes growing up in poverty in rural Kandahar province, which he fled for Pakistan after the Russian invasion of 1979. Zaeef joined the jihad in 1983, was seriously wounded in several encounters and met many leading figures of the... -
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident by Geert Mak
RRP: £10.99£7.99Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and... -
Gaza: Stay Human by Vittorio Arrigoni 9781847740199
RRP: £6.99£5.05Had the pacifist International Solidarity Movement not been in Gaza at the time, the world would have been deprived of a detailed account from the inside, having instead to rely on the generalised accounts of news agencies reporting from outside the... -
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon' by Eugenia Russell 9781473877207
RRP: £25.00£18.30At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Ioannina and the... -
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East Bernard Lewis 9780753818718
RRP: £12.99£8.83A collection of the most important essays on past and current history by the Western world's foremost Islamic scholarBernard Lewis has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books WHAT WENT WRONG? and THE... -
NKJV, Value Thinline Bible, Leathersoft, Blue, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780718074463
RRP: £17.99£13.55A 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,... -
Dust: Egypt's Forgotten Architecture by Xenia Nikolskaya
RRP: £39.99£32.77A stunning photographic compilation of Egypt's abandoned palaces and grand buildingsBetween 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces and lavish buildings. These... -
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill 9781620975923
RRP: £18.99£12.93A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on U.S. policy in the region In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political... -
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley
RRP: £28.00£20.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401301910Author Roger CrowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 165mm *... -
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin 9780691197098
RRP: £15.99£13.11The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world-a genius who ranks as one of the world's... -
Wings of Iraq Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force 1931-1970 by Tom Cooper 9781913118747
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118747Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fire and Fury: Israel and Hamas in the Modern Middle East by Princewill Lagang 9788612440902
RRP: £8.99£6.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788612440902Author Princewill LagangFormat PaperbackPage Count 18Imprint Non-Fiction History, War, Israel, Hamas, GazaPublisher Non-Fiction History, War,... -
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume I: From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad by Karen Radner
RRP: £122.50£111.56This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a... -
Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man Anthony Sattin 9781848549111
RRP: £10.99£7.61T. E. Lawrence was one of the most charismatic characters of the First World War; a young archaeologist who fought with the Arabs and wrote an epic and very personal account of their revolt against the Turks in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Yet this was not... -
The Making of Modern Israel: 1948-1967 Leslie Stein (Macquairie University) 9780745644677
RRP: £24.99£16.78On May 14, 1948 the State of Israel was declared, announced by David Ben-Gurion at a small gathering that assembled in the main hall of the Tel Aviv Art Museum. Within a time frame of only nineteen years, culminating in the Six-Day War, Israel fought... -
Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East: The 1948 Arab War against Israel and the Aftershocks of World War II Matthias Kuntzel (German political scientist and historian) 9781032437767
RRP: £25.99£22.98Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle Eastdemonstrates the impact on the Arab world of Nazi ideology and propaganda in the 1930s and beyond.In 1937, with the brochure "Islam and Judaism," a new form of Jew-hatred came into the world: Islamic... -
The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine by Hagar Kotef
RRP: £22.99£20.32Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers... -
Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £17.99£15.79A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and... -
NKJV, Value Thinline Bible, Large Print, Leathersoft, Purple, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
£19.97A balance of being both easy-to-read and easy-to-carry, this Bible is an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go. This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable... -
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi
RRP: £25.00£19.59How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in... -
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert
RRP: £22.00£19.82Sayyid 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... -
Three Byzantine Military Treatises by George T. Dennis
RRP: £16.95£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023395Author George T. DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
Friendly Fire: how Israel became its own worst enemy by Ami Ayalon
RRP: £18.99£13.03A powerful personal testimony and an urgent call for Israel to change direction, from an unexpected source: the former director of the internal security service, Shin Bet. Raised on a kibbutz by parents who had fled the Holocaust, Ami Ayalon's life... -
The End of Empire: Cyprus: A Soldier's Story Martin Bell 9781473848184
RRP: £25.00£17.90Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered the letters he had written home during the... -
The Forty Two Precepts of Maat, the Philosophy of Righteous Action and the Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Texts by Muata Ashby
RRP: £18.50£12.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884564482Author Muata AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Sema InstitutePublisher Sema InstituteWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 210mm *... -
Islamic Imperialism: A History by Efraim Karsh
RRP: £14.99£13.03A fundamental challenge to the way we understand the history of the Middle East and the role of Islam in the region From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East... -
Philosophy before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia by Marc van de Mieroop
RRP: £25.00£19.90There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what... -
New Media Discourses, Culture and Politics after the Arab Spring: Case Studies from Egypt and Beyond by Eid Mohamed 9780755640546
£29.35This book investigates the interplay between media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ quest for more stable and democratic governance models in the aftermath of the “Arab Spring” uprisings. It focuses on online mediated public debates,... -
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,... -
Effendina: The Story of the young King Farouk of Egypt, 1920-1943 by Melekper Toussoun
RRP: £29.50£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914325113Author Melekper ToussounFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad PublishingWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East by David Hirst 9781560254836
£21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560254836Author David HirstFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth Press -
Yasmeena's Choice: A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival by Jean Sasson 9781939481146
RRP: £11.99£10.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939481146Author Jean SassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint LDAPublisher LDAWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm -
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany 9780199858682
RRP: £39.49£24.20Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day. Allowing them... -
The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy by Henry Corbin 9781556432699
RRP: £16.99£12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556432699Author Henry CorbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Dialogues in Arab Politics: Negotiations in Regional Order by Michael N. Barnett 9780231109192
RRP: £32.00£29.13For decades, Arab states and societies have been involved in an ongoing conflict over the goals and norms of Arabism. In this comprehensive study, Michael Barnett explores the relationships between Arab identity, the meaning of Arabism, and desired... -
A History of Modern Lebanon Fawwaz Traboulsi 9780745332741
RRP: £29.99£19.70This is the first history of Lebanon from the Ottoman Empire to the modern period. Based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating account of one of the world's most fabled countries. Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in... -
The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso 9780141998459
RRP: £10.99£7.99An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. He... -
When the Tempest Gathers: From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War by Andrew Milburn 9781526750556
RRP: £25.00£17.90These are the intense combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu,...