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Live At Budokan

Steve Coll

The Achilles Trap

The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations dur…

Political Islam at the Crossroads

An comparative analysis of Islamist groups' ideological positioning toward nation-state, secularism, and democracy across different countries in the MENA region.

Hans-Lukas Kieser

When Democracy Died

"In an innovative, comprehensive account of the Lausanne Conference, Hans-Lukas Kieser recounts how the Conference concluded more than ten years of war and genocide in the late Ottoman Empire and explores…

Gaar Adams

Guest Privileges

An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction'An eye-opening tour de force' ALEX ESPINOZA'Exh…

Sabrina Ghayour,

Persiana

A special edition of the award-winning cookbook from the beloved Sabrina Ghayour. Persiana features over 100 flavorful and mouthwatering recipes that highlight the best of Persian culture. A celebration …

On Barak

Heat, a History

"This elegant and witty book brings the galactic scale of 'warming' down to the intimate level of heat, sweat, and bodies, thus inviting the reader to ask why we tend to prefer abstractions to embodied ex…

Incendies (2009) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

A mother's dying wish creates a painful puzzle her children are forced to solve. At the reading of their mother's will, twins Jeanne and Simon are given instructions to locate the father they believed was…

Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar

Target Tehran

With a new Afterword for the paperback edition, Jerusalem Post reporters Bob and Evyatar draw on confidential sources in Mossad, Israel's equivalent to our CIA, to tell the remarkable story of how Israel …

Barnaby Rogerson

The House Divided

An incisive look at the past, present, and future of the religious divide that lies at the heart of the Middle East. At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400…

Noa Schonmann

Israel's Phantom Pact

For Israel, a small state surrounded by what it perceives as hostile neighbours, foreign policy has been stamped as the key to its survival. By embarking on what is now called Israel's 'Periphery Pact' in…

Charles H Dyer, Stanley Ellisen

Who Owns the Land?

Who Owns the Land? That's the question being asked in homes and on college campuses all over the world. There are accusations. Anger. And pain. Are the Israelis occupiers and oppressors? What is the histo…

Fawaz A. Gerges

The Great Betrayal

How the Middle East can achieve political change and social progress The Middle East is in upheaval: a widening chasm between state and society, the failure of governing elites to address citizens’ genui…

Adam Mestyan

Modern Arab Kingship

How the "recycling" of the Ottoman Empire's uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle EastIn this groundbreaking book, Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab political …

Open Government and Freedom of Information

The book examines the state of Open Government in Asia. Drawing on thirteen country case studies and one regional study, it analyses the application of Freedom of Information methods and assesses their im…

Yossef Rapoport

Becoming Arab

"How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities, and formed village clans. During the later Middle Ages, peasants in Egypt and Greater Syria came to view themselves as members …

Billie Jeanne Brownlee, Maziyar Ghiabi

States Without People

States Without People argues that the major consequence of the failed revolts and civil wars in the Middle East has been the emergence of a culture of the right.

Agatha Christie

Come, Tell Me How You Live

Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. I…

David Fromkin

A Peace to End All Peace

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, and the violent challenge…