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A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine by Lori Allen
RRP: £23.99£21.16This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations. More than twenty commissions have been convened over... -
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni 9781586483784
£18.09As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to... -
The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don't Want to Know about Each Other by Raja Khouri 9781623717193
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717193Author Raja KhouriFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America by Peter Dale Scott 9780520258716
RRP: £23.00£18.50This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have... -
Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq by Melvyn P. Leffler 9780197610770
RRP: £23.49£19.98A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003--an outcome that was in no way predetermined. America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era... -
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat Ella Shohat 9780745399492
RRP: £24.99£16.78*Winner of the MEMO Palestine Book Awards 2017* Spanning several decades, Ella Shohat's work has introduced conceptual frameworks that fundamentally challenged conventional understandings of Palestine, Zionism and the Middle East, focusing on the... -
The Nile: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £19.00£12.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168908Author Toby WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Baghdad at the Centre of a World, 8th-13th Century: An Introductory Textbook by Emily Selove 9781944296155
RRP: £25.74£20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944296155Author Emily SeloveFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Theran PressPublisher Theran PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
Muhammad's Heirs: The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622-950 by Jonathan E. Brockopp
RRP: £30.99£21.89Muslim scholars are a vital part of Islam, and are sometimes considered 'heirs to the prophets', continuing Muhammad's work of establishing Islam in the centuries after his death. But this was not always the case: indeed, Muslims survived the turmoil of... -
Granta 159 by Sigrid Rausing 9781909889477 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889477Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 325gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Seale
RRP: £31.00£24.43'This is a book in the finest tradition of investigative scholarship. The research is awesome...Seale's great strength is his ability to explain the confusing kaleidoscopic nature of Middle Eastern diplomacy. He understands the game being played and also... -
KJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Brown, Red Letter, Thumb Indexed, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780785239246
RRP: £40.00£32.14This beautiful Bible edition honors the legacy of the King James Version Bible in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type,... -
State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt Dr. Maha A. Ghalwash 9781649032775
RRP: £59.99£48.63An alternative reading of the relationship between the state and smallholder peasants in mid-nineteenth-century EgyptThis book examines the rural history of Egypt during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a period that is often glossed over, or... -
False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria by Professor Nigel Ashton 9781786493286
RRP: £12.99£8.80'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... -
Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955: Volume 1: Military Flying Services in Arab Countries, 1909-1918 by Dr. David C. Nicolle 9781912866434
RRP: £19.95£12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866434Author Dr. David C. NicolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Horrors of Slavery: and Other Writings by Robert Wedderburn by Iain McCalman 9781558760516
RRP: £20.95£19.68Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. The Horrors of Slavery is a vivid record of the history, ideas, and rhetoric of a leader in the... -
The Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown by Afif Safieh 9780863564222
RRP: £16.99£16.62Afif Safieh served as Palestinian General Delegate in London, Washington and Moscow from 1990 to 2008. During this time, he met and interacted with the leading figures of our times: from Yasser Arafat to Tony Blair; to Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush,... -
Egypt Robert Springborg 9781509520497
RRP: £15.99£14.62Egypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary record of national endurance, the pressures to which Egypt currently is subjected and which are bound to intensify are already straining the... -
Pride and Power: A Modern History of Iraq by Johan Franzén
RRP: £75.00£66.91The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty. Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown... -
The Middle East and South Asia 2022-2023 by Ilan Pappe 9781538165805
RRP: £19.99£17.61The World Today Series: The Middle East and South Asia. More than a quarter of the world's population live in the Middle East and South Asia, yet our knowledge and understanding of the region is often limited to news updates about the latest conflicts... -
Lawrence of Arabia's Secret Dispatches during the Arab Revolt, 1915-1919 by Fabrizio Bagatti
RRP: £25.00£17.90T. E. Lawrence's dispatches during the Arab Revolt have been published before, but only in an edited and incomplete form, as they were printed for a strictly limited wartime readership in the Arab Bulletin. Now, in this scholarly edition, they are... -
The Berbers of Morocco: A History of Resistance by Michael Peyron 9780755639359
£30.33From the Rif War to the rebellion of 1958, the Berbers (Imazighen) have played a central role in the history of Moroccan resistance to colonialism in the twentieth century. This book provides an in-depth overview of Berber resistance to the French... -
Shell-shocked: On the Ground Under Israel's Gaza Assault by Omer Mohammed 9781608465132
RRP: £16.99£11.85For 51 days during the summer of 2014, the Israel military reduced much of Gaza to rubble. More than 2000 Palestinians lost their lives during the assault. Mohammad Omer, the only Palestinian journalist reporting in English about the assault, details the... -
The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akcam
RRP: £25.00£20.30Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of... -
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt by Omnia S. El Shakry 9780691174792
RRP: £35.00£27.95The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic... -
Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World by Stephen Blake
RRP: £27.99£22.97This textbook surveys the major advances in the heavenly sciences from Isfahan, Maragha and Samarqand. It looks at the development of astronomy and astrology in the Islamic world from the 9th to the 17th century, and their influence on the... -
The Modern Middle East: A History by James L Gelvin
RRP: £51.99£51.80Extensively revised and updated in this fifth edition, The Modern Middle East explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years... -
Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Jeremy R Hammond 9780996105811
RRP: £16.99£15.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996105811Author Jeremy R HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint Worldview PublicationsPublisher Worldview PublicationsWeight(grams) 780g -
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£9.64Apologies 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 *... -
Not the Enemy: Israel's Jews from Arab Lands by Rachel Shabi 9780300167696
RRP: £22.00£21.22Mention Israel and internal conflict, and most people immediately think of the seemingly insoluble Palestinian problem. However, as Rachel Shabi explains in this acclaimed book, there is another crucial division within Israeli society: between Ashkenazi... -
Bethlehem: Biography of a Town by Nicholas Blincoe 9781472128669
RRP: £6.99£4.88The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli... -
Lost City of the Exodus: The Archaeological Evidence Behind the Journey out of Egypt by Ahmed Osman 9781591431893
RRP: £16.99£11.25When the first archaeologists visited Egypt in the late 1800s, they arrived in the eastern Nile Delta to verify the events described in the biblical Book of Exodus. Several locations believed to be the city of the Exodus were found but all were later... -
A History of Modern Palestine by Ilan Pappe 9781108401449
RRP: £24.99£20.81Tracing the history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century, through the British Mandate, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which have dominated this troubled region, Ilan Pappe's... -
The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains Hannah-Lena Hagemann 9781474450898
RRP: £25.99£21.40Analyses the narrative function of Kh?rijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography The first book-length literary study of Kh?rijism Sheds new light on the creation of historical memory in early Islamic historiography Emphasises the... -
A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century by Donald M. Lewis
RRP: £31.99£24.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846979Author Donald M. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *... -
Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 by Janet Afary
RRP: £95.00£77.89In 1906, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the tales of the Middle Eastern trickster Nasreddin to construct a progressive anti-colonial discourse with a strong emphasis on social, political and religious reform. Using folklore, visual... -
Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia by Thomas T. Allsen 9780521602709
RRP: £39.99£33.26In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The... -
Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era by Julia Phillips Cohen 9780190610708
RRP: £32.49£23.44The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government... -
The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem by Nur Masalha 9780745321202
RRP: £29.99£19.70The 1948 war ended in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. Israeli settlers moved in to occupy their land and the Palestinian refugees found themselves expelled. Today there are nearly four million Palestinian refugees... -
KJV, The King James Study Bible, Bonded Leather, Brown, Red Letter, Full-Color Edition: Holy Bible, King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780718079758
RRP: £80.00£67.13The 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...