Middle East

A memoir of life in Iran in the tumultuous years leading up to the 1979 revolution'Offers an intimate window onto the Iranian revolution just when we need to be thinking about it the most' - Marjane Satrapi, writer and film director Recounts the...

Cicero, one of the greatest orators of all time and an important politician at the time of the downfall of the Roman Republic, has left in his writings a first-hand view of the age of Caesar and Pompey. However, readers need to learn how to interpret...

In this landmark study, Shahla Haeri offers the extraordinary biographies of several Muslim women rulers and leaders who reached the apex of political systems of their times. Their stories illuminate the complex and challenging imperatives of dynastic...

Despite the boycott Hamas was subjected to since its victory in the 2006 parliamentary elections, it has become a significant player on the international stage. It boasts a territory identifiable by its borders, internationally recognized cease-fire...

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously declared that we had reached "the end of history," and that liberal democracy would be the reigning ideology from now on. But Fukuyama failed to reckon with the idea of illiberal democracy. What if majorities, working...

This groundbreaking volume, written entirely by women, examines the vastly misunderstood and multilayered world of the veil. Veiling - of women, of men, and of sacred places and objects - has existed in countless cultures and religions from time...

The wave of popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world starting in December 2010 rattled regimes from Morocco to Oman. However, Lebanon's sectarian system proved immune to the domestic and regional pressures unleashed by the Arab Spring. How can...

Herewith an historical journey from the third century to the multiethnic metropolis of the twentieth century, bringing together two diverse histories of the city. Ancient Alexandria was built by the Greek Ptolemies who in thirty years completed the first...

Now newly updated, America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as "the deal": oil for security. Exploding the long-established myth that the Arabian American Oil...

The years 1954-1958 in Syria are popularly known as "The Democratic Years," a brief period of civilian government before the consolidation of authoritarian rule. Kevin W. Martin provides a cultural history of the period and argues that the authoritarian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852448595Author Suha RassamFormat PaperbackImprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 508g

Slave soldiers are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon. Though virtually unknown in the non-Muslim world, they have been a constant and pervasive feature of the Muslim Middle East from the ninth century AD into modern times. Why did Muslim rulers choose to...

Is the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests-or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of...

Building on the two previous editions of his History of the Maghrib, Professor Abun-Nasr has written a completely new history of North Africa within the Islamic period which begins with the Arab conquest and brings the story up to the present day. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585095865Author George G M JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Book TreePublisher Book TreeWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671602161Author Zeev SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

What were the attitudes to diplomacy and kingship in the medieval Islamic world? Anne Broadbridge examines struggles over ideology in the Middle East and Central Asia from 1260 to 1405. She explores two very different ideological worlds: the Islamic...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association The leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery...

The untold story of Israel's diplomatic maneuvering in the wake of the Six Day War, which frustrated a possible peace settlement Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist...

Gamal Abdel Nasser, architect of Egypt's 1952 Revolution, president of the country from 1956 to 1970, hero to millions across the Arab world since the Suez Crisis, was also a family man, a devoted husband and father who kept his private life largely...

The figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early modern Christian Europeans who wrote about the Ottoman Empire. As few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870785627Author Abdelrahman AyyashFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Century Foundation PressPublisher Century Foundation PressWeight(grams)...

Waqfs (pious endowments) long held a crucial place in the political, economic, and social life of the Islamic world. Waqfs were major sources of education, health care, and employment; they shaped the city and contributed to the upkeep of religious...

Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous-this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai was to become something more than an unruly port, a plan was needed. Specifically,...

A critical perspective on the vicious cycle of improvement and deterioration in Greek-Turkish relations Provides trends of securitisation and desecuritisation to present the political nature of securitisation by either the military bureaucrats or...

Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades. ...

Is Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In this now-classic book, Islamic sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways in which progressive Muslims--defenders of democracy,...

As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies-from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers-fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets. The cacophony of everyday life grew louder, and the Egyptian press...

A biography of the "Cinderella" of Egyptian cinema-the veneration and rumors that surrounded an unparalleled career, and the gendered questions that unsettled Egyptian society. Layla Murad (1918-1995) was once the highest-paid star in Egypt, and her...

Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient myth. The book describes the erotically inspiring...

This original and historically rich book examines the influence of gender in shaping the Egyptian nation from the nineteenth century through the revolution of 1919 and into the 1940s. In Egypt as a Woman, Beth Baron divides her narrative into two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535124Author John B JudisFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

In the decade following the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, some 100,000 diasporic Palestinians returned to the West Bank and Gaza. Among them were children and young adults who were born in exile and whose sense of Palestinian identity was shaped not by lived...

When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The United States had waged a long war against Syria from the...

The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971060968Author Rashid ErgenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Pilgrims' ProcessPublisher Pilgrims' ProcessWeight(grams) 188g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832807Author Bernard LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 433Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 590g

The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven centuries. At the height of its power, it stretched over three continents and produced marvels of architecture, literature, science, and warfare. When it fell, its collapse redrew the map of the...

Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The pashas - merchants and travellers from Europe - discovered an Islamic world that was...

In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines theideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the latenineteenth century to the present. Exploring Zionism's origins in Central-EasternEuropean nationalism and...