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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... ( read more)
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Persian Girls: a Memoir (06 Edition)
by Nahid Rachlin
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For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept... ( read more)
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Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (06 Edition)
by Carter
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President Carters challenging and provocative assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice for Palestinians--and one of the most important books of the year--is now available in paperback.... ( read more)
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
by Jimmy Carter
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Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine.
President... ( read more)
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From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter
by Thomas L Friedman
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Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting,... ( read more)
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Orientalism
by Edward W Said
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The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.... ( read more)
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Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
by Queen Noor
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A national best-seller on its first publication in 2003, Leap of Faith is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. In it, Queen Noor of Jordan provides a compelling portrait of her late husband King Hussein and... ( read more)
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by Geraldine Brooks
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With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... ( read more)
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Pity the Nation : Abduction of Lebanon (02 Edition)
by Robert Fisk
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With the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Robert Fisk's explosive Pity the Nation recounts Sharon and Arafat's first deadly encounter in Lebanon in the early 1980s... ( read more)
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.
The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau... ( read more)
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Middle East : a Brief History of the Last 2000 Years (95 Edition)
by Bernard Lewis
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In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it... ( read more)
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
by T. E. Lawrence
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The monumental work that assured T.E. Lawrence's place in history as "Lawrence of Arabia." Not only a consummate military history, but also a colorful epic and a lyrical exploration of the mind of a great man who helped shape the Middle East as it exists... ( read more)
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Shah of Shahs
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into... ( read more)
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
by Mark Bowden
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From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America’s first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary... ( read more)
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Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Modern Library)
by Jane F Geniesse
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Freya Stark — traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters — began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her — and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years — in 1927. And with the publication of... ( read more)
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Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies
by Peter W Galbraith
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Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the "smartest and most devastating" critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality now... ( read more)
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The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower
by Robert Baer
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Over the past thirty years, while the United States has turned either a blind or dismissive eye, Iran has emerged as a nation every bit as capable of altering America's destiny as traditional superpowers Russia and China. Indeed, one of this book's... ( read more)
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No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent Into Chaos
by Charles Ferguson
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The first book of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, No End In Sight is a shocking story of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality. Culled from over 200 hours of... ( read more)
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My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
by Ariel Sabar
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"I am the keeper of my family"s stories. I am the guardian of its honor. I am the defender of its traditions. As the first-born son of a Kurdish father, these, they tell me, are my duties. And yet even before my birth I resisted." So begins Ariel Sabar's... ( read more)
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History of the Modern Middle East 3RD Edition
by William Cleveland
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A History of the Modern Middle East provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the Iranian Revolution and the Gulf War.
After introducing... ( read more)
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