Middle East

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933823935Author Reza ZarghameeFormat HardbackPage Count 728Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 1395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620974162Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866905909Author James Herschel HoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint American Federation of Astrologers IncPublisher American Federation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250787651Author Rashid KhalidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

A classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging.In 1977, after serving as a leading activist for the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration from there, Natan Sharansky was arrested...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628200Author Sergio SantanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a...

After the First World War, tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Palestine. They went there not to found a Zionist state but primarily to seek refuge from the violence and persecution of the Russian Civil War and its aftermath. Fleeing to the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118846Author Bruno MugnaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Following World War I, as the victorious Allied powers occupied Ottoman territories, Armenian survivors returned...

Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Yet it lives in another world. Besieged by Syrian government forces since 2011, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by bombs and missiles, and shot at by snipers. Its...

Six hundred years ago, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - an esteemed Islamic scholar and poet - survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, as well as millions of others throughout the medieval world. Holding up an eerie mirror to...

A detailed account of famed travel writer Freya Stark's journey through the Mediterranean. When Roman legions marched into Asia Minor in 200BC, their plan was to secure a buffer zone between the Mediterranean, which they virtually owned, and the area...

Why Is the Middle East Entering a "New Era?" Is It a New Dawn? Is It a Setting Sun? In the third decade of the twenty-first century, the Middle East is entering a new era. A multifaceted and intricate equilibrium will write the next chapter of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780307473288Author Karen Elliott HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random...

New 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...

In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-century, this narrow-gauge 1,320 km track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate...

The political thought of Muslim societies is all too often defined in religious terms, in which the writings of clerics are seen as representative and ideas about governance are treated as an extension of commentary on sacred texts. Disenchanting the...

One Land, Two States is a bold restructuring of an idea that remains at the heart of international diplomacy after generations of conflict. A pioneering effort to preserve the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine, the book imagines new paradigms in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990619420Author Esther AminiFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Greenpoint PressPublisher Greenpoint PressWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Colin Shindler's remarkable history begins in 1948, as waves of immigrants arrived in Israel from war-torn Europe to establish new cities, new institutions, and a new culture founded on the Hebrew language. Optimistic beginnings were soon replaced with...

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these Celebrations, where they...

Mirrored Loss tells the story of Amat al-Latif al Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relationship with her adored...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863515Author James F. PetrasFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118761Author David NicolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063239449Author Gordis DFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he...

In the early Islamic world, Arabic erotic compendia and sex manuals were a popular literary genre. Although primarily written by male authors, the erotic publications from this era often emphasised the sexual needs of women and the importance of female...

In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501198946Author Edward DolnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world's greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a million fragments hidden in Egypt were discovered and distributed around the world, before becoming collectively known as...

What is the relationship between the medieval crusades and the problems of the modern Middle East? Were the crusades the Christian equivalent of Muslim jihad? In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling...

Today the West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century it was imagined differently. The interplay of geography and politics found definition in a broader set of...

The Palestine campaign of 1917 saw Britain's armed forces rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attempts in the spring, at the end of the year they broke through the Ottoman line with an innovative mixture of old and new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743291644Author George JonasFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Mary Montagu was one of the most extraordinary characters in the world. She was a self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical, a feminist but also an entitled aristocrat and a society wit with powerful friends at court. In 1716 she travelled...

Did British, French and Russian gunboats pacify the notoriously corsair-infested waters of the Eastern Mediterranean? This book charts the changing rates and nature of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth century. Using Ottoman, Greek...

Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? "Rule of...

Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume,...

In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland of the Empire. Outmanoeuvred by the Turkish sultan, Alp Arslan, Romanus was forced to...