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Peace And Its Discontents
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compelled us to question our culture's most privileged myths. Now with this impassioned and incisive book, our foremost Palestinian-American intellectual challenges the official version of the Middle East "peace process." "He challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area."-- Washington Post... more...
The Politics of Dispossession
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 21.00Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only Palestinians but also the Arab and Muslim worlds and... more...
A Death in Jerusalem
Skyhorse Publishing 1996; US$ 3.99An account of the 1948 assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish U.N. mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict, discusses his murder by the Israeli Stern Gang, whose membership included Yitzhak Shamir, and the reasons for the killing. more...
The Yom Kippur War 1973 (2)
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95Osprey's second title in the study of the Yom Kippur War (1973). Israel?s victory in the 1967 ?Six Day War? sowed the seeds of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. At 1400hrs on 6 October 1973 the Egyptian army launched an assault crossing of the Suez Canal. The carefully co-ordinated attack achieved complete tactical surprise. The sand embankments of the Israeli... more...
Historical Dictionary of Yemen
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 125.99The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Yemen has been thoroughly updated and greatly expanded. Through its list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries, greater attention has been given to foreign affairs, economic institutions and policies, social... more...
A History of Saudi Arabia
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 24.00This new edition covers the political, economic and social developments in Saudi Arabia since 9/11 to the present day. more...
The A to Z of the Gulf Arab States
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 33.99The A to Z of the Gulf Arab States comes at a time when the world's attention is riveted on the Middle East. The small states covered in this volume?Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)?possess about 20 percent of the world's total oil reserves. Beyond the strategic and economic importance conferred upon them by their... more...
Days of God
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 26.00A myth-busting insider?s account of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that destroyed US influence in the country and transformed the politics of the Middle East and the world. James Buchan was studying in Iran in the 1970s when the turmoil that culminated in the revolution began. Fluent in Persian, he draws on a wealth of Iranian records, memoirs,... more...
Die Basilika in Byzanz
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 182.00In Byzantium, the central structure is considered archetypical. This study shows that this assumption is only partly true. It presents the basilicas of the 7th to 15th centuries, addressing questions of typology, appointments, function, and the relationship to longitudinal and central constructions. It shows that the Byzantines were more flexible in... more...
The Aleppo Codex
Algonquin Books 2013; US$ 15.95A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Journalist Matti Friedman?s true-life detective story traces how this precious... more...









