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Something Strange, Like Hunger: Short Stories by Malika Moustadraf
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Malika Moustadraf is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her uncompromising depiction of life on the margins. Something Strange, Like Hunger presents Moustadraf's... -
Political Islam: Context versus Ideology by Khaled Hroub
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of the contemporary debates within political Islam, providing an in-depth analysis of the specific movements, countries and regions in the Arab world and... -
Selected Writings by Mai Ghoussoub
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Mai Ghoussoub A A A A - artist, writer and co-founder of Saqi A A A A- commented widely on culture, aesthetics and the Middle East, and published many books in English, Arabic and French. Gathered... -
Hizbullah: The Story from within by Naim Qassem
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Hizbullah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem provides an unparalleled insider's view of the workings of this Shi'ite resistance group turned political party. Formed in 1982 in response to Israel's... -
The Origins of the Druze People and Religion by Philip K. Hitti
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54The Druze, who can be traced back to eleventh-century Levant, have long intrigued scholars of the Middle East. Their obscure origins and blending of beliefs from Ismaili Shi'ism, animism, Greek... -
I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman by Joumana Haddad 9780863564277
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54In this provocative book Joumana Haddad uses the format of the political pamphlet to describe the liberating impact of literature on her life. She tells of reading the Marquis de Sade at twelve, of... -
Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry by Adonis 9780863565243
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.14Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are amongst the leading poets in the Arab world today. Victims of a Map presents some of their finest work in translation, alongside the original Arabic,... -
The Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown by Afif Safieh 9780863564222
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38Afif Safieh served as Palestinian General Delegate in London, Washington and Moscow from 1990 to 2008. During this time, he met and interacted with the leading figures of our times: from Yasser... -
Higher Education in the Gulf States: Shaping Economies, Politics and Cultures by Christopher Davidson 9780863566974
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Nowhere in the world is university education expanding as rapidly as in the six-member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council. In two generations the region has gone from having the Middle East's... -
After Bin Laden by Abdel-Bari Atwan 9780863564192
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Osama bin Laden is dead but al-Qa'ida remains the CIA's 'number one threat'. With branches in strategic hotspots from Yemen and Somalia to North Africa and an increasing influence among 'home grown... -
Tehran Blues: Youth Culture in Iran by Kaveh Basmenji 9780863565823
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45More than two decades after their parents rose up against the excesses of the Shah, increasing numbers of young Iranians are risking jail for things their counterparts in the West take for granted:... -
Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed by Ayse Onal 9780863566172
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Ayse Onal has done an immense service by revealing what it is like to live in an honour-based society and the terrible cost, not just to the women who are beaten and eventually killed, but to the... -
Central Asia: Political and Economic Challenges in the Post-Soviet Era by Alexei Vassiliev 9780863569135
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $51.98Based on first-hand research conducted by the Moscow Centre for Civilizational and Regional Studies, this work documents the findings of one of the first authoritative studies on the newly... -
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawiqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 by 9780863561665
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.35Revered 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... -
Harun Al-Rashid: and the World of the Thousand and One Nights by Andre Clot 9780863565502
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Harun al-Rashid, the legendary caliph portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights, was the son of a Yemenite slave who cleared Harun's path to power, very probably by poisoning her eldest son. Harun... -
The Devil You Don't Know: Going Back to Iraq by Zuhair Al-Jezairy 9780863566493
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84In 1979, journalist Zuhair al-Jezairy fled Iraq and certain death after openly criticising Saddam's regime. Twenty-five years later he is back, and cautiously celebrating the toppling of the hated... -
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan 9781908906298
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic figures by examining Jesus within the context of the times in which he lived:... -
Syria: A Recent History by John McHugo 9780863561603
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Syria's descent into chaos since 2011 has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, while more than nine million people have fled their homes. In this timely account, John McHugo charts the history of... -
Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women by Niaz Zaman 9780863565670
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54This vibrant and thought-provoking anthology of translated short stories is representative of the variety of issues that women from Bangladesh tackle in their writings. It includes stories about the... -
Images from the Endgame: Persia Through a Russian Lens 1901-1914 by John Tchalenko 9780863567353
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $32.03On 11 August 1913, the Tsar's consul in Persia, and officer in the Lithuanian Regiment, Alexander Iyas, photographed Mamed Amin-agha, head of the Kurdish Piran tribe, in front of a wall of... -
Dubrovnik: A History by Robin Harris 9780863569593
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $37.59Since emerging as a settlement in the seventh century, Dubrovnik held a significant position beyond what could have been expected of this tiny city-state. Its merchants, trading throughout the huge... -
Enemy on the Euphrates: The Battle for Iraq, 1914-1921 by Ian Rutledge 9780863561702
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and... -
Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and an-Nahda Since the Arab Spring by Alison Pargeter 9780863561443
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38The Arab Spring heralded a profound shift in the Middle East, bringing to power Islamist movements which had previously been operating in the shadows. The Muslim Brotherhood stormed to victory in... -
Genghis Khan by Michel Hoang 9780863562884
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $27.66In the space of a mere 20 years Gengis Khan rallied all the tribes of Mongolia and put Mongol society under a codified set of laws, much admired by Western travellers. At the head of his superbly... -
Lebanon Adrift: From Battleground to Playground by Samir Khalaf 9780863564345
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.02Lebanon today is at a fateful crossroads in its eventful socio-cultural and political history. Imperiled by unsettling transformations, from postwar reconstruction and rehabilitation to the forces of... -
Kahlil Gibran: A Biography by Alexandre Najjar 9780863566684
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'If there is a man who can read "The Prophet" without a singing in the heart as of music born within, that man is indeed dead to life and truth' - "The Chicago Post". Author of the international... -
Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature by Roger Allen 9780863560750
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $26.33In segregated, conservative societies with a repressive attitude to women, writing on the theme of love and sexuality are of particular interest. Among the plethora of studies on modern Arabic... -
Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World by Denys Johnson-Davies 9780863563874
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $19.40Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, Denys Johnson-Davies brings together a colourful mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. From a diverse area of... -
A Country of Words: A Palestinian Journey from the Refugee Camp to the Front Page by Abdel-Bari Atwan 9780863566219
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.98In this riveting and revealing autobiography, newspaper editor Abdel Bari Atwan recounts with humour and honesty his many extraordinary encounters, including tea with Margaret Thatcher, his weekend... -
Contemporary Iranian Art Hamid Keshmirshekan 9780863569791
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.96Complex, innovative and thought-provoking, Iranian art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries offers fresh insight into a culture and society that have been much misunderstood in the West and... -
Lebanese Cuisine: Past and Present Karim Haidar 9780863563775
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.96Passionate and renowned chefs Andree Malouf and Karim Haidar continue the Lebanese tradition of exquisite culinary invention in this collection of soups, salads, meats and deserts. Over a hundred... -
I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See: Photographs from the Refugee Crisis: 2017 by 9780863561795
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.59A Scotsman Best Photography Book of 2017 Texts by Filippo Grandi, UN High Comissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, and Robert Del Naja, Massive Attack In October 2015, Giles Duley was commissioned by the... -
Arab Youth: Social Mobilization in Times of Risk by Samir Khalaf 9780863564574
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $28.33In 2011, thousands of Arab youth took to the streets to demand their freedom. Although it is too early to speculate on the ultimate outcome of the revolutionary uprisings, one auspicious feature... -
Stories and Scenes from Mount Lebanon by Mahmoud Khalil Saab 9780863565700
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13At the outbreak of civil war in 1975, Mahmoud Khalil Saab realised that Lebanon would be changed forever. A man with a deep love for his country, he immediately set about recording eye-witness... -
Legacy of Empire: Britain's Support of Zionism and The Creation of Israel by Gardner Thompson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45It 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: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.98Arabic 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54In 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Suleiman 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Across 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Since 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...