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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... -
Palestine in Black and White by Mohammad Sabaaneh 9780863569401
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02Palestine in Black and White is an intimate and powerful portrayal of life under occupation from one of the most talented cartoonists working today. Mohammad Sabaaneh has gained worldwide renown for... -
A to Z of Arabic-English-Arabic Translation by Ronak Husni 9780863568855
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.45The A to Z highlights common pitfalls faced by translators working on both Arabic-English and English-Arabic texts. Each translation problem is carefully contextualized and illustrated with examples... -
Sexuality in the Arab World by Samir Khalaf 9780863569487
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.13Arab cultural discourse has been slow to respond to changing sexual behaviour in the Arab world. The contributors to this collection pick up the slack, ranging across such disciplines as literature,... -
Legacy of Empire: Britain's Support of Zionism and The Creation of Israel by Gardner Thompson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02It is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire's historic responsibility for Palestine remain little known. Confusion persists too... -
Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives by Angelika Neuwirth
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.55Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives introduces the work of twenty-nine pivotal authors from the Arab world writing in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew. Organised around the central themes of... -
Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism by Gilbert Achcar
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism. A... -
Suleiman the Magnificent by Andre Clot 9780863564987
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Suleiman the Magnificent, most glorious of the Ottoman sultans, kept Europe atremble for nearly half a century. In a few years he led his army as far as the gates of Vienna, made himself master of... -
The Battle for British Islam: Reclaiming Muslim Identity from Extremism: 2016 by Sara Khan 9780863561597
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Across Britain, Muslims are caught up in a battle over the very nature of their faith. And extremists appear to be gaining the upper hand. Sara Khan has spent the past decade campaigning for... -
Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising by Gilbert Achcar 9780863561832
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Since the first wave of uprisings in 2011, the euphoria of the "Arab Spring" has given way to the gloom of backlash and a descent into mayhem and war. The revolution has been overwhelmed by clashes... -
Two Hours That Shook the World: September 11, 2001 - Causes and Consequences by Fred Halliday 9780863563829
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €11.00Examines the causes of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and also provides a reasoned approach as to what the future may hold. As the dust settled around the devastation of the World Trade Centre and... -
The Construction of Belief: Reflections on the Thought of Mohammed Arkoun by Abdou Filali-Ansary 9780863564246
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €31.63Mohammed Arkoun was one of the most prominent and influential Arab intellectuals of his day. During a career spanning more than thirty years, he was revered as an outstanding research scholar, a bold... -
The Meaning of Mecca: The Politics of Pilgrimage in Early Islam by M. E. McMillan 9780863564376
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.94The hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam, is a religious duty to be performed once in a lifetime by all Muslims who are able. The Prophet Muhammad set out the rituals of hajj when he led what became known... -
Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East by Mai Ghoussoub 9780863560422
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male prespective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which men are acting, reacting and adapting to the... -
Nabil Anani: Palestine, Land and People by Nabil Anani 9780863561481
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.30Nabil Anani is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. A painter, ceramicist and sculptor, he has built an impressive catalogue of outstanding, innovative and unique art over the... -
Shumaisi by Turki Al-Hamad 9780863569111
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has left home for the Saudi-Arabian capital Riyadh, where he's enrolled at university to study politics and economics... -
The Belt: A Novel by Ahmed Abodehman 9780863563072
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33Ahmed grows up in a small Saudi village steeped in traditional tribal culture, local legends, family ties, history, and tribal songs. As he becomes a man, the cataclysmic changes of modernity spring... -
The Roots of Radical Islam by Gilles Kepel 9780863565090
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81The suicide attacks of 11 September 2001 originated deep within Islamist circles. One of the prime suspects behind the attack, the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, was heavily influenced by Egypt's... -
The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami by Alberto Elena 9780863565946
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Abbas Kiarostami's films - Close-Up, Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Taste of Cherry (winner of the 1997 Palme d'Or at Cannes), and Ten - have taken their place alongside the... -
Stones of Bobello by Edwar Al-Kharrat 9780863565168
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07Set in the small town called Tarrana in the Nile Delta in the 1930s, Stones of Bobello revolves around nine episodes in the life of a sensitive young Christian boy - a montage of philosophical,... -
Wild Europe: The Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travellers by Bozidar Jezernik 9780863565748
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Combining witty comment with meticulous research abounding in historical and cultural detail, Jezernik reveals how from the mid 16th to the late 20th century "The Balkans" have been perceived by west... -
Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael Cormack
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.071920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed - a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all... -
The Shia Worlds and Iran by Sabrina Mervin
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.20From Africa to Asia, there are areas that are home to minority and in some cases majority groups of Twelver Shia. Geography and history place Iran at the centre of these Shia worlds, but to what... -
Simple Arabic: A Comprehensive Course by Yousif Haddad
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €11.00Simple Arabic aims to make learning Arabic as easy and simple as possible. Assuming no previous knowledge of the language, it is suitable for beginners but also for those who already have a grounding... -
The Janissaries by Godfrey Goodwin
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them... -
The Calligrapher's Garden by Hassan Massoudy
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €8.81Hassan Massoudy's elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons of the garden. From the icy palettes of winter and the fading hues of autumn to delicate spring growth and the dazzling sunshine and...