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Yezidis by Ezster Spat 9780863565939
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The Yezidis, an ancient enigmatic Kurdish mountain people, are considered one of the oldest ethnicities in the Middle East, and often derided as 'devil-worshippers'. Distinct from the majority Sunni... -
The Gulf Cooperation Council States: Hereditary Succession, Oil and Foreign Powers: 2017 by Yousef Khalifa Al-Yousef 9780863561474
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €36.95Since the oil boom of the 1970s, the Gulf Cooperation Council States have attempted to achieve economic stability and realise their development goals. Such efforts have so far been in vain, however,... -
Rafiq Hariri and the Fate of Lebanon by Marwan Iskandar 9780863563706
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95On Valentine's Day 2005 self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade. The Lebanese people... -
Maliheh Afnan: Traces, Faces, Places by Rose Issa 9780863564864
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.90Malileh Afnan's work appears 'as a relic of an older civilization or an archaeological excavation into the collective psyche. The delicacy of Persian miniatures and manuscripts, which she remembers... -
Heart of Beirut: Reclaiming the Bourj by Samir Khalaf 9780863565427
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02The Bourj in central Beirut is one of the world's oldest and most vibrant public squares. Named after the mediaeval lookout tower that once soared above the city's imposing ramparts, the square has... -
An Optimum Base for Pricing Middle Eastern Crude Oil by Abdulaziz M Aldukheil 9780863565434
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €36.59Setting the price of oil, one of the most sought-after and traded commodities in the global market, has been a major issue in the field of economics. In this book, Abdulaziz M. Aldukheil offers his... -
The Art of Rawas: Conversations with Nazik Yared by Mohamed El Rawas 9780863569098
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €31.00Mohammad Rawas stands today at the peak of an outstanding artistic career. Those familiar with his work will welcome this volume as a much-needed permanent source of reference, while those... -
A Revolution in the Sunnah by Ghazi A. Algosaibi 9780863563454
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33These seven short essays provide a brief and cogent overview of selected Hadiths (traditions of the Prophet Muhammad used as sources for religious law) that, argues the author, were not only... -
Dynamics of Arab Foreign Policy-making in the Twenty-first Century: Domestic Constraints and External Challenges by Hassan Hamdan Al-Alkim 9780863564468
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €36.95The Arab world's strategic location and its considerable material and human potential should allow it to play a major role in world affairs. However, plagued by authoritarian regimes, ethnic and... -
Political Journeys: The OpenDemocracy Essays by Fred Halliday 9780863564611
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Fred Halliday always combined the broad sweep of modern history, its currents and ideas with a profound knowledge of modern revolutions, the Middle East and national movements. This collection of... -
The New Post-oil Arab Gulf: Managing People and Wealth by Nabil Sultan 9780863564901
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.94The sharp increase in oil revenues since 2002 has left the Arab Gulf States with billions of petro-dollars. But how will these countries fare in the post-oil era? The rulers of these states are... -
The Art and Life of Chaouki Chamoun by Chaouki Chamoun 9780863567919
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €31.95Chaouki Chamoun is one of the Middle East's most renowned artists. Born in Sariine Tahta, the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon in 1942, he studied architectural drawing at night school, then joined the... -
The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis, 1700-1948 by Ilan Pappe 9780863564536
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The Husayni family of Jerusalem dominated Palestinian history for 250 years, from the Ottoman times through to the end of the British Mandate. At the height of the family's political influence,... -
100 Myths About the Middle East by Fred Halliday 9780863565298
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07In this much-needed and enlightening book Halliday debunks one hundred of the most commonly misconstrued 'facts' concerning the Middle East - in the political, cultural, social and historical spheres... -
Turquoise by Aamer Hussein 9780863563256
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €7.31Direct and startlingly intimate, Hussein's stories are set in troubled times - in Karachi, Lahore and London, where war, partition and military rule form the backdrop for the anticipation and anxiety... -
Journey Through the Wilderness by Moris Farhi 9780863563720
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €9.88Daniel Brac goes to South America to restore a major painting. But he is also on a mission: he must redeem his life-long cowardice and hunt the war criminal who murdered his father. To forge his... -
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Akbar Ahmed - Two Plays: "Noor" and "The Trial of Dara Shikoh" by Akbar S. Ahmed 9780863564352
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81"Noor" is the tale of three brothers attempting to rescue their sister Noor, who has been kidnapped during Ramadan. Each brother represents a different ideological position in the contemporary... -
A Cage without Bars by Ibrahim Yared 9780863565021
RRP: €8.27Booksplease Price: €6.57The small boy was trying to climb over the wall surrounding the labyrinth when he heard the elderly people back home shouting at him to go back to bed. His grip on the wall loosened and he fell,... -
The Birds Journey to Mount Qaf by Hooda Qaddumi 9780863564437
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €15.83Based on the masterful twelfth-century Sufi poem, "The Conference of the Birds", this enchanting poem is accompanied by original illustrations painted on ceramic tiles, typical of the Medieval... -
Lebanon 1860-1960: A Century of Myth and Politics by Claude Kanaan 9780863565397
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.13Insightful and extensively researched, "Lebanon in the 1950s" explores the differing mythologies of the Maronite, Druze and Sunni communities that led to a brief but brutal clash in Lebanon in 1958... -
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The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write by Sabrina Mahfouz 9780863561467 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.76Selected as Emma Watson's Jan/Feb 2019 pick for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf Shortlisted for London's Big Read A Guardian Best Book of the Year Longlisted for The People's Book Prize From... -
Striking From The Margins: State, Religion and Devolution of Authority in the Middle East by Aziz Al-Azmeh
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €25.05Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Arab world has undergone a series of radical transformations. One of the most significant is the resurgence of activist and puritanical forms of religion... -
Self-Criticism After the Defeat by Sadik J. Al-Azm
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The 1967 War - which led to the defeat of Syria, Jordan and Egypt by Israel - felt like an unprecedented and unimaginable disaster for the Arab world at the time. For many, the easiest solution was... -
Arak and Mezze: The Taste of Lebanon by Michael Karam
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.90Arak and Mezze celebrates two of the Levant's cherished traditions: the aniseed-flavoured spirit that inspired the great eaux de vie of Europe, and the appetizers that have become a byword for all... -
Patterns, Costumes and Stencils by Chant Avedissian 9780863566790
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €11.02"Patterns, Costumes and Stencils" is a reflection of the diverse peoples, cultures and traditions that have influenced Chant Avedissian's work, from the colourful textiles of Rajasthan and the glazed... -
Turkish Cookery by Sally Mustoe 9780863560729
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.63This is no ordinary cookbook. Some of the world's great chefs have come together here to share their favourite Turkish recipes. Sample Nigella Lawson's hummus with seared lamb and toasted pinenuts;... -
English-Arabic/Arabic-English Translation: A Practical Guide by Basil Hatim 9780863561559
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €15.28Unlike other available translation manuals, English-Arabic/Arabic-English Translation: A Practical Guide transcends crude dichotomies of 'literal' vs 'free' translation, 'specialized' vs 'general',... -
Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate by Abdel-Bari Atwan 9780863561344
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Based on interviews with Islamic State insiders, Abdel Bari Atwan reveals the origins and modus operandi of the fastest-growing and richest terrorist group in the world. Outlining its leadership... -
Flag on the Mountain: A Political Anthropology of War in Croatia and Bosnia by Ivo Zanic 9780863568152
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €30.05Myths arose in Europe about far-flung exotic lands - particularly Serbia and Montenegro - based on the nineteenth-century heroic epic poetry of the South Slavs. These were lands populated by 'noble... -
My End is My Beginning by Moris Farhi 9780863561306
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28Civilisation is on the brink of collapse. The people are controlled with Big Lies, mass surveillance and brutal suppression. What price would you pay for freedom? Oric and his lover Belkis are part... -
The Quest for Identities: The Development of the Modern Arabic Short Story by Sabry Hafez 9780863563638
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.13This long-awaited sequel to the classic, "The Genesis of Arabic Narrative Discourse (Saqi)", investigates a number of crucial questions related to the genre's development. Why did the Arabic short... -
The Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters by Ibrahim Abu Lughod 9780863564031
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 suddenly exposed the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire to a Europe vastly different from the one known to the Arabs of the Middle Ages. At the start of the... -
I Put a Spell on You: Dancing Women from Salome to Madonna by Wendy Buonaventura 9780863567889
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.55Women with pizzazz. Dances to shock and enchant. With heroines like Josephine Baker and Isadora Duncan, this was never going to be a conventional history. Buonaventura's book is rich with fascinating... -
Understanding the Qur'an Today by Mahmoud Hussein 9780863568497
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €8.81The prevailing belief among Muslims is that, because the Qur'an is the Word of God and God is eternal, it follows that His Word is also eternal. The belief is based on the postulate that the Word of... -
The Shi'is of Saudi Arabia by Fouad N. Ibrahim 9780863569036
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.45The Shi'is of Saudi Arabia offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Shi'i opposition in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, from the Iranian Revolution in 1979 to the ascension of... -
Light Years by Maggie Gee 9780863568688
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33Lottie Lucas is the luckiest person she knows. She has looks, money, three houses and a teenage son she adores ...So why is her husband Harold walking out on her a few days before Christmas? Light... -
Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art by Idries Trevathan 9780863560606
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.94The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue... -
Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an by Asma Barlas 9780863564628
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.94Does Islam call for the oppression of women? The subjugation of women in many Muslim countries is often used as evidence of this, while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify... -
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The Flood by Maggie Gee 9780863565120 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €2.36President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting... -
Two Women in One by Nawal El Saadawi 9780863566912
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Bahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong...