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  • Democracy's Ancient Ancestorsby Daniel E. Fleming

    Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 87.00

    Examines the politics of the ancient Near East through archives of over 3000 letters found in the royal palace of Mari. These letters, encompassing major kingdoms, smaller states and tribal towns, similar to pre-democratic Greece, justify recognizing a continuity between the classical Aegean world and the older Near East. more...

  • A Journey to Palmyraby Eleonora Cussini

    BRILL 2005; US$ 179.00

    A Journey to Palmyra originates from the desire to remember Delbert R. Hillers, who greatly contributed with his work to Palmyrene studies. However, it is not meant just as a memorial volume, but as a research tool. It contains thirteen papers by scholars in the field of Palmyrene studies and Semitics focusing on different aspects of Palmyrene history, social history, art, archaeology and philology, with publication of newly discovered inscriptions. more...

  • Damascusby Ross Burns

    Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 39.95

    Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs and original plans, traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex place through its physical development and provides, for the first time in English, a compelling and unique exploration of a more...

  • The Bread of Angelsby Stephanie Saldana

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 11.99

    When Stephanie Saldaña arrives in Damascus, she’s twenty-seven years old, brokenhearted, and running from a haunted family history that she has crossed the world to escape. But in an ancient Christian monastery carved into the desert cliffs, she will be forced to confront the life she left behind. Soon she will meet a series of improbable teachers: a female sheikh, an elderly neighbor, a wounded refugee, and Frédéric, a young French novice monk who becomes her best friend. What follows is one woman’s tender story of falling in love: with God, with her own life, and with a man she knows she can never have. Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, The Bread of Angels celebrates the surprising places where we can find... more...

  • Empress Zenobiaby Pat Southern

    Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 29.95

    The ancient sources for the life and times of Zenobia are sparse. The surviving literary works that do exist are biased towards the Roman point of view, as are the sources for two other famous women who challenged Rome, Cleopatra and Boudica. Zenobia was acknowledged in her lifetime as beautiful and clever, gathering writers and poets, artists and philosophers around her at the Palmyrene court. It was said that Zenobia claimed descent from Cleopatra, which cannot be true but is indicative of how she saw herself and how she intended to be seen by others at home and abroad. This lively narrative explores the legendary queen and charts the progression of her unequivocal declaration, not only of independence of Rome, but of supremacy. Initially... more...

  • Forging Urban Solidaritiesby C. Wilkins

    BRILL 2010; US$ 186.00

    As with most empires of the Early Modern period (1500-1800), the Ottomans mobilized human and material resources for warmaking on a scale that was vast and unprecedented. The present volume examines the direct and indirect effects of warmaking on Aleppo, an important Ottoman administrative center and Levantine trading city, as the empire engaged in multiple conflicts, including wars with Venice (1644-69), Poland (1672-76) and the Hapsburg Empire (1663-64, 1683-99). Focusing on urban institutions such as residential quarters, military garrisons, and guilds, and using intensively the records of local law courts, the study explores how the routinization of direct imperial taxes and the assimilation of soldiers to civilian life challenged and reshaped... more...

  • Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190–1350by Michael Chamberlain

    Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 40.00

    A reconceptualisation of the relationship between the society and culture of the Middle East. more...

  • The Pigeon Wars of Damascusby Marius Kociejowski

    Biblioasis 2010; US$ 17.95

    Pigeon Wars offers an outcast's tour of the post 9-11 clashes and challenges and changes refashioning the Middle East. more...

  • Shayzar Iby Cristina Tonghini

    BRILL 2011; US$ 298.00

    On the basis of a detailed analysis of the archaeological evidence and of the written documentation, this book examines the origins and the development of the fortification of Shayzar, especially between the 10th and the 13th centuries. more...

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