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After the Nobel Prize 1989-1994 The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz, Volume IV
ISBN: HB: 9781909942134, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, September 2020
700 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Naguib Mahfouz, the Arab world's only Nobel literature laureate, is best known internationally for his short stories and novels, including The Cairo Trilogy. But in Egypt he was equally familiar to newspaper readers for the column he wrote for many y...
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£28,00
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Accursed Tower The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land
ISBN: PB: 9780300254808, Yale University Press, August 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 illus.
The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immedia...
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£9,99
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Arabs A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
ISBN: PB: 9780300251630, Yale University Press, December 2019
656 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 4 maps
This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of...
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Arafat and Abbas Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed
ISBN: HB: 9781787381438, Hurst Publishers, July 2019
256 pp., 26.1x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This landmark volume presents vivid and intimate portraits of Palestinian Presidents Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, revealing the impact these different personalities have had on the struggle for national self-determination....
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Algeria Modern From Opacity to Complexity
ISBN: HB: 9781849045872, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Spared by the Arab revolts, Bouteflika's Algeria continues to intrigue observers. How does its political system function? Who really governs? Who are behind the protests? How strong are the Islamists? Are there alternatives to...
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Al-Shabaab in Somalia The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012
ISBN: PB: 9781849045100, ISBN: HB: 9781849042505, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the "Shabaab", or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ay...
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£22,00
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£45,00
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Army of Afghanistan A Political History of a Fragile Institution
ISBN: HB: 9781849044813, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book is the first full length political history of the Afghan Army, and as such is unparalleled in the range and depth of its analysis of this vitally important institution. Giustozzi locates the Army's development within...
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£50,00
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Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes
ISBN: HB: 9781849045087, Hurst Publishers, December 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid...
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£40,00
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Archaeology of Jerusalem From the Origins to the Ottomans
ISBN: PB: 9780300216622, Yale University Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 colour images, 185 black&white illus.
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 struct...
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Audacious Ascetic What Osama Bin Laden's Sound Archive Reveals About Al-Qaeda
ISBN: PB: 9781849044677, ISBN: HB: 9781849044844, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. "The Audacious Ascetic" is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic c...
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£55,00
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