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A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East by Heather J. Sharkey
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27Across centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the... -
An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948 by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi 9780231214759
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and... -
A Short History of the Gaza Strip by Anne Irfan 9781398552906
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05The Gaza Strip is one of the most widely-reported on regions in the world-yet misinformation about its history and its people abound. In this vital book, historian Anne Irfan explains Gaza's... -
The Autumn of Dictatorship: Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak by Samer Soliman
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The Egyptian protests in early 2011 took many by surprise. In the days immediately following, commentators wondered openly over the changing situation across the Middle East. But protest is nothing... -
An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948 by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi 9780231214742
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £113.55In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and... -
The Shaykh of Shaykhs: Mithqal al-Fayiz and Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan by Yoav Alon
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Shaykh Mithqal al-Fayiz's life spanned a period of dramatic transformation in the Middle East. Born in the 1880s during a time of rapid modernization across the Ottoman Empire, Mithqal led his tribe... -
A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East by Heather J. Sharkey 9780521769372
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93Across centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the... -
A Short History of the Gaza Strip by Anne Irfan 9781324105954
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.94Since October 2023, Israel has carried out one of the most brutal military onslaughts in modern history on the Gaza Strip, in response to the Hamas-led attacks of October 7. But Gaza had long been in... -
A Short History of the Gaza Strip Anne Irfan 9781398536197
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63The world's eyes are on the Gaza Strip. After more than a year of Israeli military bombardment, it is the scene of unimaginable destruction. It is also one of the most politically significant... -
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East by James Barr 9781847394576
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'The very grubby coalface of foreign policy ... I found the entire book most horribly addictive' Independent 'One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the... -
Britain's Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan: Government and Diplomacy by Sir Henry Dobbs at the Apex of Empire Ann Wilks 9780755651283
Booksplease Price: £30.54The newly discovered papers and colourfully-written letters of Anglo-Irish Sir Henry Dobbs, which form the backbone of this book, reveal his importance in the development of the modern Middle East. ... -
The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East by Guy Laron
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East... -
Understanding Political Islam by Francois Burgat
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Understanding Political Islam retraces the human and intellectual development that led Francois Burgat to a very firm conviction: that the roots of the tensions that afflict the Western world's... -
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile Mohammad Tarbush 9781914979200
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family are forced to evacuate their village together with its entire population, after the Zionist victory that led to the... -
Yemen in Crisis: The Road to War by Helen Lackner 9781788735537
Booksplease Price: £21.23The democratic promise of the 2011 Arab Spring has unraveled in Yemen, triggering a disastrous crisis of civil war, famine, militarization, and governmental collapse with serious implications for the... -
The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Provence 9780521747516
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.69The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a... -
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen 9781509890934
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been... -
Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion: Britain, Jordan and the End of Empire in the Middle East by Graham Jevon 9781107177833
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99During the 1950s, John Glubb and the Arab Legion became the 'cornerstone' of Britain's imperial presence in the Middle East. Based on unprecedented access to the unofficial archive of the Arab... -
Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion: Britain, Jordan and the End of Empire in the Middle East by Graham Jevon 9781316629239
Booksplease Price: £32.12During the 1950s, John Glubb and the Arab Legion became the 'cornerstone' of Britain's imperial presence in the Middle East. Based on unprecedented access to the unofficial archive of the Arab... -
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia by Sam Dalrymple 9781324123781
Booksplease Price: £24.72As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the "Indian Empire"... -
The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Provence 9780521761178
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £92.64The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a... -
The Life and Memoirs of Fakhri al-Barudi: The Renaissance Man of Syria, 1887–1966 Sami Moubayed 9781649034762
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £39.71Syria's tumultuous twentieth century through the life of a central figure in Syrian politicsBorn into an aristocratic Damascene family in about 1887, Fakhri al-Barudi was a household name in Syria,... -
Shattered Lands: The Five Partitions of India: 1937-71 by Sam Dalrymple 9780008466824
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ** 'A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Remarkable ... The prose is vivid, the... -
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October... -
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim 9780861548101
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. 'Remarkable.' Max Hastings, THE SUNDAY TIMES Today the once... -
The First World War in the Middle East by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen 9781787380295
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus... -
Lebanon: A History, 600 - 2011 by William Harris
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £27.76In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'Essential to a proper understanding of the war and of our world of today' Michael Morpurgo1.5 million Indians fought with the British in the First World War - from Flanders to the African bush and... -
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawiqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 by 9780863561665
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45Revered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman... -
Political Islam in Tunisia: The History of Ennahda by Anne Wolf
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.34Political Islam in Tunisia uncovers the secret history of Tunisia's main Islamist movement, Ennahda, from its origins in the 1960s to the present. Banned until the popular uprisings of 2010-11 and... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack 9781408707692
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £10.68A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian... -
Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War by Shay Hazkani
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those... -
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and... -
Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War by Shay Hazkani 9781503614659
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those... -
Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781399628570
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Thoroughly updated and revised for 2024, JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY is the history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City and the Holy Land, from King David to the wars and chaos of today... -
Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993 by Yezid Sayigh 9780198292654
Booksplease Price: £115.04This masterly new work spans an entire epoch in the history of the contemporary Palestinian national movement, from the establishment of Israel in mandate Palestine in 1948, to the PLO-Israel accord... -
A History of the Modern Middle East by William L. Cleveland 9780813349800
Booksplease Price: £59.84A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of... -
From the First World War to the Arab Spring: What's Really Going On in the Middle East? by M. E. McMillan 9781137522047
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £96.71Offering a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the complex web of wars and proxy wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions that are ripping the Middle East apart, this book puts these events in... -
Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile by Diana Allan 9780804774918
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their... -
A History of the Modern Middle East William L. Cleveland 9780367516468
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of...