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Lawrence of Arabia: An in-depth glance at the life of a 20th Century legend by Ranulph Fiennes 9780241450611
RRP: £25.00£18.02The authoritative and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes.Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in... -
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell
RRP: £9.99£7.11The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject of a new film starring Nicole Kidman.In the last century, few people lived more astounding - or influential - lives than... -
Harold Wilson: The Winner by Nick Thomas-Symonds 9781474611961
RRP: £14.99£9.80Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten,... -
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition by Eugene Rogan
RRP: £18.99£13.61THE THIRD EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, REVISED AND UPDATED'A rich, galloping narrative that spans the Arab world...outstanding, gripping and exuberant...full of flamboyant character sketches, witty asides and magisterial scholarship, that... -
Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia by Rosie Bsheer 9781503612570
RRP: £25.99£22.44The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of... -
The Prophet of Mercy: How Muhammad Rose Above Enmity Insult by Mohammad Elshinawy
RRP: £9.99£6.75To delegitimize the Messenger is to call into question the entire message. During his time, the Makkans called hima poet, a magician, and a madman, among other names. Today, he is insulted with other labels. The question of whether or... -
Sisters Of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The hunt for early Bible manuscripts was among the most romantic of all the 19th century's grand quests...At the heart of this lively, inspiring double biography is the story of how a pair of spirited Presbyterian women made their own extraordinary... -
The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa by Jonathan B. Losos
RRP: £22.00£14.98The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. 'Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Age of Cats is a readable and... -
My Great Arab Melancholy by Lamia Ziadé 9780745348155
RRP: £24.99£16.38My Great Arab Melancholy is a beautiful, tragic and award-winning book from Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziade. Blending the author's years of research, personal memoir and more than 300 illustrations, this compelling history of the modern Arab... -
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine by Yaroslav Trofimov
RRP: £10.99£7.7720 November 1979: as morning prayers began, hundreds of hardline Islamist gunmen, armed with rifles smuggled in coffins, stormed the Grand Mosque in Mecca. With thousands of terrified worshippers trapped inside, the result was a bloody siege that lasted... -
Inside the Kingdom by Robert Lacey
RRP: £11.99£8.43Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology,... -
Desert Queen by Janet Wallach
RRP: £12.99£8.60The life of Gertrude Bell is now the subject of the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco and Damian LewisTurning away from privileged Victorian Britain, Gertrude Bell explored, mapped and excavated the world of... -
Harold Wilson: The Biography by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds
RRP: £25.00£14.66Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten,... -
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda by Omar Nasiri 9780465023899
£14.90Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services-including France's DGSE (Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure), and Britain's MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in... -
Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest City by Jim Krane
RRP: £10.99£7.32Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai's population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls, or sailing in wooden dhows to trade with Iran and India. Dubai... -
From Black Gold to Frozen Gas: How Qatar Became an Energy Superpower by Michael D. Tusiani 9780231210867
RRP: £28.00£21.36Today, Qatar is among the world's wealthiest countries. Its rich hydrocarbon resources have transformed this small Gulf state into an energy powerhouse, funded its outsized global ambitions, and allowed it to forge an identity separate from those of its... -
The Evolution of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates by Athol Yates 9781912866007
RRP: £35.00£28.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866007Author Athol YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story by Gabriele Vom Bruck
RRP: £35.00£30.65Mirrored 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... -
Philosophy in the Islamic World: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3 by Peter Adamson 9780198818618
RRP: £11.99£9.04The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subject, by... -
Catastrophes, Crashes and Crimes in the UAE: Newspaper Articles from the 1970s by Dr Athol Yates 9781909339903
RRP: £9.95£9.34Like any country, the United Arab Emirates have had their share of criminals, accidents, natural disasters and downright weird incidents. Most of these events merit a few pages in the newspapers before disappearing from history. This book brings the... -
The Arab Conquests by Justin Marozzi
RRP: £18.99£13.61The story of the seventh- and eighth-century Muslim conquests, when armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to build the Islamic Empire. 'This book delivers drama through sublime writing, but mainly through marvellous images..... -
The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States Volume 3: The Aden Protectorate 1839-1967 by Cliff Lord
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377228Author Cliff LordFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra al-Maqtari
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilians in the Yemeni Civil War, which has killed over 350,000 people according to the UN. Inspired by the work of Svetlana Alexievich, she spent two years... -
Oman: Politics and Society in the Qaboos State by Marc Valeri
RRP: £22.00£19.11Based on years of firsthand research, Marc Valeri treats the political career of Sultan Qaboos as a case study of the social and political mechanisms that perpetuate authoritarianism in post-colonial states. He examines the way in which Sultan Qaboos... -
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman by Amal Sachedina 9781501760020
RRP: £27.99£23.66Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a... -
Armies of the Muslim Conquest by David Nicolle
RRP: £12.99£11.01The dramatic eruption of the Arab peoples from Arabia after their adoption of the Muslim faith in the 7th century remains one of the most extraordinary events in world history. By the end of that century they ruled a state that stretched from the... -
Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement by Cole M. Bunzel
RRP: £35.00£27.21An essential history of Wahhabism from its founding to the Islamic StateIn the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever changed the political landscape of the Arabian Peninsula and... -
Confessions of a British Spy by Hempher
RRP: £17.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910220153Author HempherFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Omnia Veritas LtdPublisher Omnia Veritas Ltd -
Qatar: Small State, Big Politics by Mehran Kamrava
RRP: £39.00£33.49The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a... -
Arabia Felix: The Annotated Account of the First Crossing of the Rub Al Khali Desert by a non-Arab. by Bertram Thomas 9781838075637
RRP: £13.99£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838075637Author Ibn Al HamraFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Arabesque TravelPublisher Arabesque TravelWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin
RRP: £12.99£9.54"The Arabian Nights" has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriential literature, have a clear idea of when the... -
Love In A Torn Land by Jean Sasson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq.One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds... -
Islam: An Illustrated Journey by Farhad Daftary 9781898592358
RRP: £35.00£31.22Beginning in the world of late antiquity and the pre-Islamic period, the book takes the reader through Islam's formative era and early development in the Arabian Peninsula, the rise and decline of major Muslim dynasties and finally into its place in the... -
Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy by Martin Indyk
RRP: £30.00£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101947548Author Martin IndykFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Knopf Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £25.00£20.92A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920 "An epic account of the British Empire's activities in Africa and the Middle East. . . . An important, indeed tremendous,... -
Captain Shakespear: Desert exploration, Arabian intrigue and the rise of Ibn Sa'ud by Alan Dillon 9781911487333
RRP: £25.00£20.70Two years before T E Lawrence received orders to travel to the Hejaz to liaise with the leader of the Arab Revolt, other British officers had already roamed the Arabian Peninsula's unforgiving Nejdi desert, to rally tribal support for the British war... -
Qatar and the Arab Spring by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
RRP: £37.50£32.77Qatar and the Arab Spring offers a frank examination of Qatar's startling rise to regional and international prominence, describing how its distinctive policy stance toward the Arab Spring emerged. In only a decade, Qatari policy-makers - led by the... -
Oman, Culture and Diplomacy by Jeremy Jones
RRP: £28.99£26.39From colonial narratives and Cold War calculations to Iranian-US relations and the Middle East peace process, Oman has played an essential role in global diplomacy and international relations. For Oman, the idea of diplomacy refers not only to the... -
DOHA and QATAR Travel Guide by Tony Walsh
RRP: £19.99£16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999813581Author Ibn Al HamraFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Arabesque TravelPublisher Arabesque TravelWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916-18 by Robert Johnson
RRP: £25.00£18.02WINNER OF THE BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'A riveting account of T. E. Lawrence's battles on and off the battlefield... Using scrupulous research and succinct prose, Johnson provides a gold mine of stratagems... a must-read for military leaders...