The Arabs
Penguin Books, December 1990. Trade Paperback.
Middle East
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Random House Trade Paperbacks, December 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - We all have dreams--things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.....
Israel: Twenty Graphic Prints by Jewish and Arab Children (text in English, German and Hebrew)
Horst Ermann Verlag, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Twenty B/W prints, 9.75 x 13 inches. With 7-page Preface and Introduction in German and English. With 13-page commentary by various authors in Engliah, Arabic and Hebrew. Housed in white folder. First edition (first printing). Graphic prints are near fine. Text is.....
Contributions to the Prehistory of Saudi Arabia: I
Field Research Projects, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Resurrecting Empire : Western Footprints And Americas Perilous Path In The Middle East
Houghton Mifflin, April 2005. Trade Paperback. Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge.....
The Wind Blows Away Our Words and Other Documents Relating to the Afghan Resistance
Vintage, November 1987. Trade Paperback.
Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic Photographs: Seventy-Seven Views by Francis Frith
Dover Pubns, January 1981. Trade Paperback. Priceless views of Egyptian and biblical antiquities as they looked in the mid-19th century, before war, neglect, and exploitation took their toll. 77 spectacular photographs of the Pyramids, Sphinx, Karnak, Luxor, Thebes, Mt. Horeb, Old Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Damascus, and more. Introduction. Captions.....
Storm from the East: The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West (Modern Library Chronicles)
Modern Library, April 2007. Trade Paperback. America's engagement with the Arab world stretches back far beyond the Iraq wars. According to Milton Viorst, the current conflict is simply the latest round in a 1,400-year struggle between Christianity and Islam, in which the United States became a participant only in the.....
Up the Nile: A Photographic Excursion: Egypt 1839-1898
C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers, January 1979. Hardcover.
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe (P.S.)
Harper Perennial, March 2012. Trade Paperback. The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, that People magazine called "a transporting, enlightening book" tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Afghanistan. Former ABC.....
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
Holt Paperbacks, July 2009. Trade Paperback. Published with a new afterword from the author--the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts--including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis.....
Jerusalem: The Biography
Vintage, September 2012. Trade Paperback. "This is an essential book for those who wish to understand a city that remains a nexus of world affairs." --Booklist (starred) Jerusalem is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from.....
Min mahasin al-din al-Islami
(n.p.), 1979. Trade Paperback. 53 pages. A Saudi cleric on the genius of Islam. Very good. Bound in library cloth.
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Tarih-i Rasid [6 Volumes, Complete]
Matba'a-'i 'Amire, 1865. Hardcover. Rasid's history of the Ottoman Empire, from 1071-1134 AH (1660-1722). This is the second edition (the first was published in the 18th century). Text in Turkish Arabic. Uncommon. A mixed set; ex-library with typical markings. Volumes 1 and 2 are bound together in red cloth; the.....
The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule (Princeton Studies on the Near East)
Princeton University Press, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. 328 pages. 'In order to understand the transition between the revolutionary movement that propelled the Abbasids to power and the imperial government that later took root, Jacob Lassner studies those elements that served to shape the political attitudes and institutions of the emerging.....
Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in Oman
University of Chicago Press, May 1991. Trade Paperback. Through photographs and detailed case histories, Unni Wikan explores the strict segregation of women, the wearing of the burqa mask, the elaborate nuptial rituals, and the graceful quality of Oman's social relations. Wikan does provide insights into the real position of these.....
The Topography of Baghdad in the Early Middle Ages: Text and Studies
Wayne State University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 324 pages. An annotated translation of Khatib al-Baghdadi's History of Baghdad 'followed by a series of studies which attempt to trace the historical pattern of the city's development' -- from the front flap. Published simultaneously in Canada. First edition (first printing). Near.....
Toward a Theory of Historical Narrative: A Case Study in Perso-Islamicate Historiography
Ohio State University Press, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. 214 pages. Analyzes the eleventh-century history text of the Ghaznavid Empire, Tarikh-i Bayhaqu, utilizing speech act theory. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket that is chipped at one corner and toned at the spine and edges.
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Bloomsbury USA, April 2007. Trade Paperback. A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST "Extraordinary ... A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum ... Highly readable and evocative." - The Washington Post The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes.....
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
W. W. Norton, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr has become one of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, admired and welcomed by both media and government for his "concise and coherent" analysis (Wall Street Journal, front-page profile). In this "remarkable work" (Anderson Cooper).....
The Literature of the Turks: A Turkish Chrestomathy, Consisting of Extracts in Turkish from the Best Turkish Authors (Historians, Novelists, Dramatists, &c.) with Interlinear and Free Translations in English, Biographical and Grammatical Notes, and Facsimiles of Ms. Letters and Documents
Bernard Quaritch, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. xix, 275, 4 pages. According to the publisher, this was the first anthology of Turkish writing published in English translation. Intended as a textbook for students of the language, the texts are presented in Turkish (written in Arabic script) and in English translation, with.....
En eski turk savlari
(Alaeddin Kiral Basimevi), 1944. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 118, [2] pages. Various indexes. 291 Turkish proverbs explained. Organized by subject. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Paper tanned. Bookplate on inside front cover.
The Wells of Ibn Sa'ud or Saud
John Murray Publishers Ltd, December 1957. Hardcover.
An Abridged Version of Bizhan and Manizha: A Story Taken from the Shahnama of Firdausi
Iranian Oil Operating Companies, 1965. Hardcover.
It Has Come to Pass
Theodor Herzl Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. The author's observations during a 1956 trip to the new Jewish state of Israel. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Spotting to top edge and a touch of toning to jacket spine and.....