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The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 174.00Examines the crucial role of the Hashemites in Arab nationalism throughout the 20th century, from the 1916 Arab Revolt through the creation of Arab states after World War I, the attempts at Arab unity, and the establishment of two kingdoms, to the current Palestinian debate. more...
Ethnographic Encounters in Israel
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 24.99Israel is a place of paradoxes, a small country with a diverse population and complicated social terrain. Studying its culture and social life means confronting a multitude of ethical dilemmas and methodological challenges. The first-person accounts by anthropologists engage contradictions of religion, politics, identity, kinship, racialization, and... more...
On the State of Egypt
Canongate Books 2011; US$ 15.82On 25 January 2011, bestselling Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany joined a million protestors in Tahrir Square calling for President Hosni Mubarak?s departure. This was the moment he and other pro-democracy activists had been working towards, but could never be sure would come. Why did Egypt unexpectedly revolt? In a weekly newspaper column Al Aswany... more...
American Evangelicals in Egypt
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 49.95In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization. Protected by British imperial power, and later by mounting American global influence, their enterprise flourished during the next century. American Evangelicals in Egypt follows the ongoing and... more...
The Fertile Crescent, 1800-1914
Oxford University Press 1988; US$ 144.99A comprehensive selection of documents, many published here for the first time, producing a systematic economic history of the Fertile Crescent in this period. more...
Jerusalem 1913
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 15.00A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter examines the true history of the discord between Israel and Palestine with surprising results Though the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict have traditionally been traced to the British Mandate (1920-1948) that ended with the creation of the Israeli state, a new generation of scholars has taken the investigation... more...
In Search of Zarathustra
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.95Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, there lived in Persia a prophet to whom we owe the ideas of a single god, the cosmic struggle between good and evil, and the Apocalypse. His name was Zarathustra, and his teachings eventually held sway from the Indus to the Nile and spread as far as Britain.... more...
Sand Daughter
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 15.00?An epic filled with emotion and rich with atmosphere? ( Historical Novel Society ) from the author of The Other Eden . Khalidah faces an arranged marriage at the behest of her father, a Bedouin Clan chief. But when a mysterious stranger named Sulayman reveals the machinations behind her pending union, she suddenly finds herself a pawn in a... more...
Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 77.00This book challenges the conventional wisdom that territorial conflicts in Jerusalem and Northern Ireland were inevitable. more...
The Israeli Peace Movement
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 75.00This book discusses the predicament of the Israeli peace movement after the 1993 peace process. more...









