Shadid and IranVoice, 1980. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Unnumbered, 63 pages. Oblong format, 15 x 10.75 inches. Title page and introductory remarks in English; photo captions and concluding remarks in Arabic. B/W photographs. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in red wappers (paperback). Contents have pulled free of the.....
Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1980. Poster. Poster, 23 x 35 inches, printed in red and black on white. Poster with image of a closed fist filled with crowd of people. Text in Persian and English. Quote from Quran 17:81at top 'Truth has come and falsehoods vanished, verily.....
Schocken, April 1989. Trade Paperback.
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2010. Trade Paperback. From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through education In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 2009. Trade Paperback. From the award-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S In The Bin Ladens, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Coll continues where Ghost Wars left off, shedding new light on one of the most elusive families of the twenty-first century. Rising from a......
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).
Regan Arts. February 2015. Trade Paperback. A revelatory look inside the world's most dangerous terrorist group. With brutal attacks across the world--Paris, Beirut, Egypt, Turkey--the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has proved itself the greatest threat today. They have conquered massive territories in Syria and Iraq in a......
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.....
Anchor, September 2016. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION "A Best Book of 2015"--The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus Reviews In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John.....
Vintage, November 1987. Trade Paperback.
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.....
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.....
C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers, January 1979. Hardcover.
Trade Paperback.
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.....
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.....
Vintage, March 2010. Trade Paperback. On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople's Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire's systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey--a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall.....
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.....
(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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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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.