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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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£12,99
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Catch-67 The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
ISBN: PB: 9780300248418, ISBN: HB: 9780300236743, Yale University Press, December 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Since the Six-Day War, Israelis have been entrenched in a national debate over whether to keep the land they conquered or to return some, if not all, of the territories to Palestinians. In a balanced and insightful analysis, Micah Goodman deftly shed...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi
ISBN: PB: 9781849048880, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why has Libya fallen apart since 2011? The world has largely given up trying to understand how the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi has left the country a failed state and a major security headache for Europe. Gaddafi's...
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£17,99
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Iran A Modern History
ISBN: PB: 9780300248937, Yale University Press, October 2019
1008 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 56 colour illus., 163 black&white illus.
This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds...
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£16,99
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Levant Express The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9780300215694, Yale University Press, October 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.
The enormous sense of optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011 soon gave way to widespread suffering and despair. Of the many popular uprisings against autocratic regimes, Tunisia's now stands alone as a beacon of hope for sustainable human righ...
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£20,00
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Love and Poetry in the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781849047098, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! It has become common in the Western media to reduce the Middle East and its cultures to news and images of violence. A region at the centre of the world's civilisations is in danger of becoming culturally tarnished beyond recog...
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£35,00
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Significant Year
ISBN: HB: 9780857425430, Seagull Books, September 2019
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
On the eve of the 2007 general elections in Morocco, writer, academic, and former cabinet minister Abdallah Saaf embarked on several road trips across the country to get a feel for how its citizens had fared since Mohammed VI's accession to the thron...
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£16,99
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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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£30,00
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Tale of Four Worlds The Arab Region After the Uprisings
ISBN: HB: 9781787382084, Hurst Publishers, July 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! First came the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire following World War I; then, in the 1950s and '60s, the Nasser-inspired wave of Arab nationalism and socialism. The Arab world's third great political cataclysm of the past 10...
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£25,00
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Jerusalem City of the Book
ISBN: HB: 9780300222852, Yale University Press, June 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
In this enchanting book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world o...
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