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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307472380Author John GhazvinianFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

The Story of Israel is an illuminating book that explores the nation's history. Seventy years after Israel declared independence on 14 May 1948, the dramatic events before and since this point form an extraordinary period of history. From Theodor Herzl's...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780307456601Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House...

The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe...

During the formative period of Islam, in the first centuries after Muhammad's death, two particular intellectual traditions emerged, Sunnism and Shi'ism. Sunni Muslims endorsed the historical caliphate, while Shi'i Muslims, supporters of 'Ali, cousin of...

Melding the rural and the urban with the local, regional, and global, Levantine cuisine is a melange of ingredients, recipes, and modes of consumption rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean. Making Levantine Cuisine provides much-needed scholarly attention...

In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest...

How does protest advancing diverse claims turn into violent conflict occurring primarily along ethnic lines? This book examines that question in the context of Syria, drawing insight from the evolution of conflict at the local level. Kevin Mazur shows...

A 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...

Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the "greater part of the pleasure of this life," namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the...

How did Syria's revolution lose its way? Drawing on the author's firsthand knowledge of the country's complex religious and ethnic communities, this book illuminates the darker recesses of Syria's history, politics, and society. With the unique...

With an extended new preface by the author. 'One of the most important intellectuals alive' Independent One of Noam Chomsky's most important and renowed works, Fateful Triangle, is a devastating indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211245Author Abraham RabinovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the modern Middle EastIn Making the Arab World, Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, describes how the clash between pan-Arab...

At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and...

One of the earliest surviving biographies of Prophet Muhammad, translated into readable, modern English for the first time The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author,...

What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884564284Author Muata Abhaya AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Cruzian Mystic BooksPublisher Cruzian Mystic BooksWeight(grams)...

The authoritative account of the sectarian division that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world. In 632, soon after the prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999644379Author Mike GuardiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Magnum BooksPublisher Magnum BooksWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

This book explores the conditions of state formation and survival in the Middle East. Based on Historical Sociology, it provides a model for study of the state in the Arab world and a theory to explain its survival. Examining states as a 'process', the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399519625Author Ali Humayun AkhtarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

In contemporary Turkey, discussions on the concept of ethnicity and religiosity continue to maintain their utmost importance in politics and daily social life. In this context, Alevi and Kurdish identities have come to the fore with mass representation...

Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understand the shifting sands of...

A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday Independent. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's...

At the height of the imperial age, European powers ruled over most parts of the Islamic world. The British, French, Russian, and Dutch empires each governed more Muslims than any independent Muslim state. European officials believed Islam to be of great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032662Author Mourid BarghoutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

'Shocking, heartfelt and well-researched' New Statesman'A ground-shaping book that defines the edge of so many vital contemporary debates. Hers is a voice simultaneously behind and beyond the veil' Colum McCann'A fascinating, can't-look-away,...

'Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football' Jonathan Wilson, FourFourTwoThe definitive story of the Middle East's unstoppable rise to football superpower, and the road to the Qatar World CupWhen James Montague...

On 4 August 2020 a massive explosion in the port area obliterated parts of Beirut and damaged many others, bringing fresh international attention to a city already recovering from civil war and weakened by economic instability. This book contributes...

The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS, and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading...

Part of The World in A Life series, this brief text provides insight into the life of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. By the outbreak of World War II, the Republic of Turkey epitomized more than a state bound for better times; it aspired to represent the essence...

At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588141743Author Ardeshir ZahediFormat HardbackPage Count 1392Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 1020g

'Poignant and compelling... will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power' - Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of Sandstorm 'Essential and urgent' - Kim Ghattas, journalist and author of Black...

Legislation Authority addresses issues of law, state violence, and state authority within the Ottoman and Turkish context.About the AuthorRuth Miller is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She received her Ph.D...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884564208Author Muata Abhaya AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Cruzian Mystic BooksPublisher Cruzian Mystic BooksWeight(grams)...

This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This...

An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and 30...