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Our Last Best Chanceby King Abdullah II of Jordan
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99A call for peace by the most dynamic leader of the Arab world. At a time of unprecedented upheaval in the Middle East, King Abdullah II of Jordan is almost unique in enjoying widespread popular support. He is the ultimate modern-day monarch, as comfortable at a business conference as he is at a meeting of the Arab League. In this prescient memoir-cum-manifesto, he makes an urgent plea to push for a solution to the Arab-Israeli crisis. He writes with disarming frankness about his own upbringing and warns of the brewing resentment in the region. A call to arms by the most dynamic young ruler in the Arab world, Our Last Best Chance helps explain the volatile underpinnings of the new Arab awakening. more...
First Inby Gary Schroen
Ballantine Books 2005; US$ 7.99While America held its breath in the days immediately following 9/11, a small but determined group of CIA agents covertly began to change history. This is the riveting first-person account of the treacherous top-secret mission inside Afghanistan to set the stage for the defeat of the Taliban and launch the war on terror. As thrilling as any novel, First In is a uniquely intimate look at a mission that began the U.S. retaliation against terrorism–and reclaimed the country of Afghanistan for its people. From the Hardcover edition. more...
Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Periodby Tarif Khalidi
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 34.00A survey of an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight hundred years. more...
Love and the Lawby Jan Bowen
Allen & Unwin 2000; US$ 25.40The law impacts on every aspect of our lives, our personal lives included. This book seeks to go beyond lovers' quarrels to examine the rights of kids, the legal consequences of separation or divorce, contraception, sexual assault, same-sex relationships and other legal issues. more...
Greek Thought, Arabic Cultureby Dimitri Gutas
Routledge 1998; US$ 44.95Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient Greek culture to the Middle Ages. more...
First Dynasty of Islamby G. R Hawting
Routledge 2000; US$ 41.95The standard work on this complex period in Arab history is available once again with the addition of a new introduction by the author which examines recent significant contributions to scholarship in the field. more...
Arab Worldby Allan M. Findlay
Routledge 1994; US$ 46.95Drawing on case studies from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Morocco and Jordon, this introductory text assesses how agricultural, industrial and urban development has evolved and suggests the essential changes needed for progress in the future. more...
The Interrogatorsby Greg Miller; Chris Mackey
Little, Brown 2004; US$ 11.99An unprecedented look at the front line of the war against terror: the inside story of five American interrogators, thousands of prisoners, and the race for the truth. More than 3,000 prisoners in the war on terrorism have been captured, held, and interrogated in Afghanistan alone. But no one knows what transpired in those interactions between prisoner and interrogator--until now. In The Interrogators, Chris Mackey, the senior interrogator at Bagram Air Base and in Kandahar, where al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners were first detained and questioned, lifts the curtain. Soldiers specially trained in the art of interrogation went face-to-face with the enemy. These mental and psychological battles were as grueling, dramatic, and important as any in... more...
Israeli Palestiniansby Alexander Bligh
Frank Cass 2003; US$ 61.95This edited collection offers a comprehensive analysis of the most significant factors to have contributed to the current relations between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens. more...
Resistance and Control in Pakistanby Akbar S. Ahmed
Routledge 2004; US$ 53.95In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading authorities on Islam explains what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes. more...









