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The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World's Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books

by Matti Friedman

A 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,...


One Palestine, Complete

by Tom Segev & Haim Watzman

A panoramic and provocative history of life in Palestine during the three strife-torn but romantic decades when Britain ruled and the seeds of today's conflicts were sown

Tom Segev's acclaimed works, 1949 and...


Imperial Designs: War, Humiliation & the Making of History

by Deepak Tripathi

Since the age of Alexander the Great, waves of foreign armies have invaded the Middle East and South Asia to plunder their vast treasures. In Imperial Designs, Deepak Tripathi offers a powerful and unique analysis...


Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement

by Beverley Milton-Edwards & Stephen Farrell

Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East.

How did Hamas grow to be so powerful? Who supports it?...


Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding

by Rachel Newcomb, David Crawford & Kevin Dwyer

Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of...


Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future

by H. Erdem Cipa & Emine Fetvaci

Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion....


Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42

by William Dalrymple

From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial...


AD 33: The Year That Changed The World

by Colin Duriez

This is a portrait of one of the great years in world history. It is a book comparable to Gavin Menzies 1421: The Year China discovered the World. AD 33 was the year when an obscure religious teacher died a...


Gods, Guns and Israel: Britain, The First World War And The Jews in the Holy City

by Jill Duchess of Hamilton

The roots of today's Middle East conflict are extremely deep and exceedingly tangled and Jill Hamilton has done a wonderful job of unravelling a complicated story. Describing the background to the present conflict...


Post-conflict Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration: Bringing State-building Back In

by Antonio Giustozzi

This book revisits post-Cold War Disarmament Disintegration and Reintegration (DDR) programmes in the light of previous experiences of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration. In the history of North America...


Turkey in the 21st Century: Quest for a New Foreign Policy

by Özden Zeynep Oktav

This timely book is a much needed account of how pragmatism rather than ideology is the main determinant in Turkey's current foreign policy and should be read by all looking for a fresh and stimulating take...


Iraq: A Political History (New in Paperback)

by Adeed Dawisha

With each day that passed after the 2003 invasion, the United States seemed to sink deeper in the treacherous quicksand of Iraq's social discord, floundering in the face of deep ethno-sectarian divisions that...


The A to Z of Ancient Israel

by Niels Peter Lemche

For these very reasons, because Ancient Israel means so much to us and because we actually know so little for sure, The A to Z of Ancient Israel is particularly important. It examines the usual sources in the...


The A to Z of the Druzes

by Samy Swayd

This dictionary provides nearly 1,000 concise and informative cross-referenced A to Z entries on religious, political, and cultural themes, as well as entries on a number of major families and individuals (artists,...


When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege

by Raja Shehadeh

The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used...


Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East

by Rashid Khalidi

An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments

 

For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the...


Libya: Continuity and Change

by Ronald Bruce St John

This book examines the socioeconomic and political development of Libya from earliest times to the present, concentrating in particular on the four decades of revolutionary rule which began in 1969. Focusing...


Egypt's Incomplete Revolution: Lutfi al-Khuli and Nasser's Socialism in the 1960s

by Rami Ginat

The importance of Lutfi al-Khuli and the intellectual circle associated with the Nasserist regime is examined here. Rami Ginat looks at al-Khuli's contribution to the short-lived yet formidable success of Arab...


Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements, 1943-55

by Michael Cohen, Dr Martin Kolinsky & Martin Kolinsky

Britain emerged from World War II dependent economically and militarily upon the US. Egypt was the hub of Britain's imperial interests in the Middle East, but her inability to maintain a large garrison there...


The Routledge Historical Atlas of Jerusalem: Fourth edition

by Martin Gilbert

This unique Atlas traces the history of Jerusalem from biblical times to the present day. Each map is illustrated by a facing page of prints or photographs, to give a complete pictorial and cartographic overview...