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  • Flight 149

    A Hostage Crisis, a Secret Special Forces Unit, and the Origins of the Gulf War

    by Stephen Davis ...
    A gripping, real-life drama that reveals the true story of a plane full of unsuspecting passengers who landed in a war zone and were delivered into the hands of a murderous dictator.On August 1, 1990, Flight 149 was scheduled for its routine London-to-Kuala Lumpur run. But when the plane, carrying 385 passengers and crew, landed at a Kuwait airport to refuel that day, it was surrounded by Iraqi ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • War Journal

    My Five Years in Iraq

    by Richard Engel ...
    In the most dramatic and intimate account of battle reporting since Michael Herr's classic Dispatches, NBC News's award-winning Middle East Bureau Chief, Richard Engel, offers an unvarnished and often emotional account of five years in Iraq.Engel is the longest serving broadcaster in Iraq and the only American television reporter to cover the country continuously before, during, and after the 2003 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • صحف ابراهيم

    جوزيف سميث

    by Wael Baseem ...
    Series Book 1 - صحف ابراهيم وموسي
    ملخص كتاب صحف ابراهيم، عليه السلامالكتاب مآخوذ عن برديه جوزيف سميث والتي عثر عليها في القرن التاسع عشر ونشرت سنه ١٨٣٤ والتي تم كتابتها بخط يد ابراهيم عليه السلام عندما كان في مصر باللغتين الهيراطيقيه والهيروغليفيهالكتاب تم نقده بشده علي اساس ان الترجمه للبرديه تزامنت مع اكتشاف شامبليون لرموز اللغه الهيروغليفيه سنه ١٨٢٢مما يدل علي ان اللغات المصريه كان معروفه قبل ان يصل شامبليون لفك طلاسم اللغه ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

    A Primer

    If you have ever wondered “Why is there so much violence in the Middle East?”, “Who are the Palestinians?”, “What are the occupied territories?” or “What does Israel want?”, then this is the book for you. With straightforward language, Phyllis Bennis, longtime analyst of the region, answers basic questions about Israel and Israelis, Palestine and Palestinians, the US and the Middle East, Zionism ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Parting the Desert

    The Creation of the Suez Canal

    Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Sacred Violence

    The European Crusades to the Middle East, 1095-1396

    In Sacred Violence, renowned medieval historian Jill N. Claster examines warfare between Christians and Muslims for control of the embattled city of Jerusalem. Beyond the battlefield, however, Claster explains the relationship of Jews, Christians, and Muslims to the Holy City and how that relationship still resonates today. The book encompasses the history of the kingdom founded by the Crusaders ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Making Levantine Cuisine

    Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean

    Melding the rural and the urban with the local, regional, and global, Levantine cuisine is a mélange of ingredients, recipes, and modes of consumption rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean. Making Levantine Cuisine provides much-needed scholarly attention to the region’s culinary cultures while teasing apart the tangled histories and knotted migrations of food. Akin to the region itself, the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A World of Trouble

    The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror

    by Patrick Tyler ...
    A spellbinding narrative account of America in the Middle East that "reads almost like a thriller" (The Economist)The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war. But it was not always so—and as Patrick Tyler shows in A World of Trouble, a thrilling chronicle of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Social History of Agriculture

    From the Origins to the Current Crisis

    This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Millerargue that people, rather than markets, have been the primary agents of agricultural change. Exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time and analyzing their activities ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • In Search of Israel

    The History of an Idea

    A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a long history of suffering, Israel was conceived to be unique, a model society and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Palestine

    A Socialist Introduction

    This essay collection presents a compelling and insightful analysis of the Palestinian freedom movement from a socialist perspective.In Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, contributors examine a number of key aspects in the Palestinian struggle for liberation. These essays contextualize the situation in today’s polarized world and offer a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Come, Tell Me How You Live

    An Archaeological Memoir

    Over the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of other unforgettable characters. She also gave us Come, Tell Me How You Live, a charming, fascinating, and wonderfully witty nonfiction account of her days on an archaeological dig in Syria with her ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • New Philistine

    Simplifying and Solving the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

    This book explores the long running history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and recommends a newly developed solution towards solving the problem and restoring peace in the region allowing for the peace and prosperity of both people through a well thought out and brilliant new century two state solution greatly rivaling the first dying one doomed to further exacerbate the Palestinian condition ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Idols of ISIS

    From Assyria to the Internet

    In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq’s Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political importance of museums, and the efficacy of videos in furthering an ideological agenda through the internet.Beginning with the Islamic State’s claim that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery?

    The God of the Old Testament commanded and endorsed many practices that we find morally reprehensible today. High on the list was the institution of slavery, which features prominently in several sections of the Hebrew Bible. Fathers could sell their daughters into slavery, masters could beat their slaves, creditors could carry off children for failure to repay a debt, and foreigners could be kept ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Skateboards Will Be Free

    A Memoir of a Political Childhood

    BONUS: This edition contains a When Skateboards Will Be Free discussion guide.“The revolution is not only inevitable, it is imminent. It is not only imminent, it is quite imminent. And when the time comes, my father will lead it.”With a profound gift for capturing the absurd in life, and a deadpan wisdom that comes from surviving a surreal childhood in the Socialist Workers Party, Saïd ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • If a Place Can Make You Cry

    Dispatches from an Anxious State

    by Daniel Gordis ...
    A firsthand, personal view of a family on the front lines of war in Israel“An outstanding work . . . powerfully and movingly written.”—Jerusalem PostWINNER OF THE “BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE” AWARDIn the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, but a few months into their stay, Daniel and his wife decided to remain in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Land of Hope and Fear

    Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An urgent, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, and the external threats to their country, at a critical juncture in its history. • Through moving narratives and on-the-ground reporting, a veteran New York Times correspondent who has spent decades working in Israel reveals what holds the country together.“A wondrous tale told ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dark Forces

    The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi

    The New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Warriors investigates the tragedy of Benghazi to answer the questions: what really happened—and why?We know the Obama administration’s story, of a demonstration caused by an Internet movie that went out of control. But what actually did happen in Benghazi on the night of September 11, 2012?Dark Forces is the story of clandestine arms deliveries by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Black Gold to Frozen Gas

    How Qatar Became an Energy Superpower

    Series series Center on Global Energy Policy Series
    Today, Qatar is among the world’s wealthiest countries. Its rich hydrocarbon resources have transformed this small Gulf state into an energy powerhouse, funded its outsized global ambitions, and allowed it to forge an identity separate from those of its large and powerful neighbors.Drawing on Michael D. Tusiani’s firsthand accounts and deep personal experience in the energy sector and Anne-Marie ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Aleppo Codex

    In Pursuit of One of the World's Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books

    **“A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended.”—Paulo Coelho, author of The AlchemistWinner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature**A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Sixth Crisis

    Iran, Israel, America, and the Rumors of War

    There have been five central crises in America's post World War II encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth. Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapons capability, and the prospect of Israel launching air strikes to stop it, are ingredients for a conflict that could ruin any residual hopes for fostering peace in the region. The Sixth Crisis explores the fraught ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Jerusalem

    From the Origins to the Ottomans

    In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is structured chronologically, exploring the city’s material culture, including fortifications and water systems as well as key sacred, civic, and domestic ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, which supported the Jews in what became a proxy war ... Read more

    $41.99 USD