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The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema Michelle Langford 9780755660216
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £35.99A state-of-the-art overview of new research in Iranian cinema, covering documentary, fiction art house and popular films and filmmakers, from a range of interdisciplinary approaches. -
The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Sociology and the Middle East Fatma Müge Göçek 9780755660162
Booksplease Price: £41.66What we understand by the 'Middle East' has changed over time and across space. While scholars agree that the geographical 'core' of the Middle East is the Arabian Peninsula, the boundaries are less... -
Dark Star by Alan Strachan
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £29.05Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the... -
Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land by Gabriel Polley
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.15Narratives of the modern history of Palestine/Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain's arrival in 1917. However, this work argues that the contest over Palestine has... -
After the Genocide in Rwanda: Testimonies of Violence, Change and Reconciliation by Hannah Grayson
Booksplease Price: £27.58Since the Genocide against the Tutsi, when up to one million Rwandan people were brutally killed, Rwanda has undergone a remarkable period of reconstruction. Driven by a governmental programme of... -
In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece Helen Lovatt 9781848857148
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.89Few classical stories are as romantic as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The stirring tale of an adventurer who was also a disenfranchised king's son and daring sea-captain has resonated through... -
Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy Ece Temelkuran 9780755649730
Booksplease Price: £16.60Starting with the basic question "what is this place?", award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her "beloved country". In challenging the authoritarian AKP government -... -
History of the Arab Invasions: The Conquest of the Lands: A New Translation of al-Baladhuri's Futuh al-Buldan by Ahmad b. Yahya al-Baladhuri
Booksplease Price: £127.01Ahmad bin Yahuya al-Baladhuri's History of the Arab Invasions is perhaps the most important single source for the history of the great Arab conquests of the Middle East in the sixth and early seventh... -
Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education by Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Booksplease Price: £30.98Each year, Israel's young men and women are drafted into compulsory military service and are required to engage directly in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is by its nature intensely... -
A Short History of the American Civil War by Paul Christopher Anderson
Booksplease Price: £18.74The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history, claiming the lives of at least... -
March of the Moderates by Dr. Richard Carr
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £28.75Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold... -
Ataturk on Screen by Dr Enis Dinc
Booksplease Price: £112.13Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was not widely known when he led the national resistance movement in Anatolia in 1919. However, the effort and attention that his government devoted to the creation of his... -
Azerbaijan: A Political History by Suha Bolukbasi
Booksplease Price: £102.51Azerbaijan's Soviet and post-Soviet political history has been tumultuous and varied, particularly with regard to the struggle for independence, democracy and sovereignty. Suha Bolukbasi here... -
Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez
Booksplease Price: £30.23In post-Franco Spain, a re-shaping of notions of the masculine has been under way for some time. The authors of "Live Flesh" demonstrate how contemporary Spanish films, during this modern period,... -
Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (University of Oxford, UK) 9780755600670
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.92The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran... -
Greece, the Decade of War by David Brewer
Booksplease Price: £56.54In this book, acclaimed history David Brewer investigates explores 1940s Greece -- one of the most tumultuous decades in Greece's modern history. Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by... -
The Nazi Holocaust: Its History and Meaning by Ronnie S. Landau
Booksplease Price: £28.57The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic 'explanations' Ronnie Landau has... -
Irregular War: The New Threat from the Margins by Paul Rogers
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.54The world has changed. Rather than a clash of civilisations, the West now faces revolts from the margins, driven by widening economic divisions, rising global elites and dangerous environmental... -
The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin by Stephen F. Cohen
Booksplease Price: £22.66Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's... -
Lewis Carroll: The Man and his Circle by Edward Wakeling
Booksplease Price: £72.32Bestselling author, pioneering photographer, mathematical don and writer of nonsense verse, Lewis Carroll remains a source of continuing fascination. Though many have sought to understand this... -
The Basilicas of Ethiopia: An Architectural History by Mario di Salvo
Booksplease Price: £62.11The basilica is symbolic of the history of Christianity in Ethiopia. Aizan, the first Christian king of the Aksumite empire was responsible for the creation of the large, five-aisled church of M?ry?m... -
The Mirage: Misunderstanding the Middle East by Omer Taspinar
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.67The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding: political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of conflict and unrest in the region. The idea that we... -
The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it by Suraiya Faroqhi
Booksplease Price: £31.31The first paperback edition, in line with latest historiography - "Ottoman Empire" is a major and advanced early modern power, this book is based on a huge study of original sources and personal... -
Germany and Propaganda in World War I: Pacifism, Mobilization and Total War by David Welch
Booksplease Price: £31.31Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, was scathing in his condemnation of German propaganda in World War I, declaring that Germany failed to recognise that the mobilization of public opinion was a... -
Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria by Nikolaos Van Dam
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.54Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as... -
Covid-19 and Risk Society across the MENA Region: Assessing Governance, Democracy and Inequality by Larbi Sadiki
Booksplease Price: £30.98The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - at the interlocking levels of politics, economy, and society - have been different across regions, states, and societies. In the case of the Middle East and... -
Political Manipulation and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Terrorism, Influence and Persuasion by Ben Cole
Booksplease Price: £36.82Concerns about CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear) weapons have featured prominently in both political debates and media reporting about the ongoing threat from al Qaeda since 9/11... -
Whose Peace Are We Building?: Leadership for Peace in Africa Youssef Mahmoud (International Peace Institute, New York) 9780755618880
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.80What is the relationship between leadership and peace? What kind of leadership styles, processes and strategies are required to gain a deeper understanding of local context while at the same time... -
Cyber War and Cyber Peace: Digital Conflict in the Middle East by Eliza Campbell
Booksplease Price: £27.02The Middle East is the region in which the first act of cyber warfare took place. Since then, cyber warfare has escalated and has completely altered the course of the MENA region's geopolitics.With a... -
The Masnavi of Rumi, Book Two: A New English Translation with Explanatory Notes by Jalaloddin Rumi
Booksplease Price: £71.67Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his love... -
Embracing the Darkness: A Cultural History of Witchcraft John Callow (University of Suffolk, UK) 9781845114695
Booksplease Price: £46.61As dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521, Martin Luther - hiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castle - found himself seemingly tormented by demons hurling walnuts at his bedroom window. In a fit of... -
The Spectre of Afghanistan: Security in Central Asia Amin Saikal 9780755637065
Booksplease Price: £27.58Connecting a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country's past and present instability and how this impacts and is conceptualised by its... -
Political Minefields: The Struggle against Automated Killing by Matthew Bolton 9781780761589
Booksplease Price: £85.65Thousands of people around the world are maimed and killed by landmines and unexploded ammunition every year. International law classifies landmines as 'evil in themselves', but minefields are... -
Britain and Arab Unity: A Documentary History from the Treaty of Versailles to the End of World War II by Younan Labib Rizk 9781780766515
Booksplease Price: £34.47British attitudes towards Arab unity have frequently been a source of controversy in the Middle East. From the Treaty of Versailles to the end of World War II, and the withdrawal of Mandates from the... -
The European Union: An Introduction by Mark Corner 9781780766850
Booksplease Price: £28.09The EU is one of the most notoriously complex international organisations. It is the only supranational organisation where nation-states agree to share sovereignty in some areas but not in others. At... -
Chaplin's Music Hall by Barry Anthony 9781780763149
Booksplease Price: £53.54Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music... -
A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets by Igor Golomstock 9781788312950
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £32.42In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted... -
The Labour Church: Religion and Politics in Britain 1890-1914 by Jacqueline Turner 9781784539436
Booksplease Price: £102.21The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914. It was... -
Armenia's Velvet Revolution: Authoritarian Decline and Civil Resistance in a Multipolar World Anna Ohanyan (Stonehill College, USA) 9781788317184
Booksplease Price: £85.65In April 2018, Armenia experienced a remarkable popular uprising leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and his replacement by protest leader Nikol Pashinyan. Evoking... -
Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World by Peter Sluglett 9781788319768
Booksplease Price: £30.23Violent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines why they play such a key role and the different ways in which...