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Peace To End All Peace

Peace To End All Peace

by David Fromkin

Featuring a new afterword offering an updated assessment of the region, a twentieth anniversary edition of the acclaimed study of the Middle East traces the influence of the Allies on Middle East politics during and after World War I and the legacy of the era on the shifting political unities and divisions of today.
Bush At War

Bush At War

by Bob Woodward

Bush at War is a 2002 book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward recounting President George W. Bush's responses to the September 11 attacks and his administration's handling of the subsequent War in Afghanistan. It is an example of creative nonfiction. Much of the book recounts events in meetings of the United States National Security Council (NSC), with the major players in the story, aside from the President, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, George Tenet and Condoleezza Rice.
From Beirut To Jerusalem

From Beirut To Jerusalem

by Thomas L Friedman

The New York Times Middle East correspondent profiles this troubled region, describing the everyday horrors of Beirut, the intricacies of Arab politics, Arab-Israeli relations, and American perceptions of the region.
The Places In Between

The Places In Between

by Rory Stewart

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving amid the remains of medieval civilizations. By night he slept on villagers' floors, shared their meals, and listened to their stories of the recent and ancient past. Along the way Stewart met heroes and rogues,... Read more about this item
Armageddon Oil and The Middle East Crisis

Armageddon Oil and The Middle East Crisis

by John F Walvoord

Armageddon Oil and the Middle East Crisis: What the Bible Says About the Future of the Middle East and the End of Western Civilization

In this text, originally published in 1991, Walvoord links biblical prophecy and the ongoing crisis in the Middle East as far as Armageddon is concerned. He belives that the Middle East and the oil industry will precipitate a world war.
The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower

by Lawrence Wright

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a historical look at the way in which Al-Qaeda came into being, the background for various terrorist attacks and how they were investigated, and the events that led to the 9/11-2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. The book was written by Lawrence Wright, and he received a Pulitzer Prize for it. The Looming Tower is largely focused on the people involved; what they were like, why they did what they did, and how they interacted.
Leap Of Faith

Leap Of Faith

by Queen Noor

rt of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Halaby was a strongly independent young woman. After studying architecture at Princeton, her work on projects in the Middle East gave her a profound understanding both of the links between the environment and social problems, and also of the tumultuous history of the Arab nations. Then, in 1974, her life took a very different turn, when her father introduced her to the world's most eligible bachelor, King Hussein of Jordan.... Read more about this item
Fiasco

Fiasco

by Thomas E Ricks

The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key... Read more about this item
Nine Parts Of Desire

Nine Parts Of Desire

by Geraldine Brooks

With a New AfterwordAs a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women. Nine Parts of Desire is the story of Brooks' intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory... Read more about this item
Power, Faith and Fantasy

Power, Faith and Fantasy

by Michael B Oren

Includes bibliographical references (p. [693]-741 and index.
Oedipus and Akhnaton

Oedipus and Akhnaton

by Immanuel Velikovsky

Immanuel Velikovsky identifies the scene and all the personages of the Greek Oedipus legend with the life patterns of the family of the Egyptian King Akhnaton, reputedly the first monotheist during the most famous period of Egyptian history
Stones Into Schools

Stones Into Schools

by Greg Mortenson

From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through educationIn this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic... Read more about this item
The Middle East

The Middle East

by Bernard Lewis

In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly sritten, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the world's foremost authority on the Middle East.
What Went Wrong? - Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

What Went Wrong? - Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

by Bernard Lewis

For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first in the battlefield and the marketplace, then in... Read more about this item
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

by Amelia B Edwards

Ramses II and His Time

Ramses II and His Time

by Immanuel Velikovsky

Our Man In Damascus

Our Man In Damascus

by Eli Ben-Hanan

The Egyptian Book Of the Dead

The Egyptian Book Of the Dead

by E a Wallis Budge

My Life

My Life

by Golda Meir

Veiled Sentiments

Veiled Sentiments

by Lila Abu-Lughod

Peoples Of the Sea

Peoples Of the Sea

by Immanuel Velikovsky

Middle East Books & Ephemera

A History Of the Arab Peoples

A History Of the Arab Peoples

by Albert Hourani

In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region. This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of... Read more about this item
Journeying

Journeying

by Kazantzakis, Nikos

History Of Early Iran

History Of Early Iran

by Cameron, George C

A History Of Israel

A History Of Israel

by Oesterley, W O E

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

by Join-Lambert, Michel

The Heritage Of Persia

The Heritage Of Persia

by Frye, Richard N

The Land and The Book

The Land and The Book

by Thomson, William M

Longest War Israel In Lebanon

Longest War Israel In Lebanon

by Timerman, Jacobo

The Pyramids

The Pyramids

by Weeks, John