Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books On Sale: June 5, 2012 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-88594-4 (0-307-88594-1)
As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then— even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 14, 2006 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7776-2 (1-4000-7776-1)
From the acclaimed author of Crescent, called “radiant, wise, and passionate” by the Chicago Tribune, here is a vibrant, humorous memoir of growing up with a gregarious Jordanian father who loved to cook. Diana Abu-Jaber weaves the story of her life in upstate New York and in Jordan around vividly remembered...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: National Geographic On Sale: February 28, 2012 Price: $28.00 ISBN: 978-1-4262-0934-5 (1-4262-0934-7)
1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization takes readers on a journey through years of forgotten Islamic history to discover one thousand fascinating scientific and technological inventions still being used throughout the world today. Take a look at all of the discoveries that led to the great technological advances of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books On Sale: March 2, 2010 Price: $12.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-58967-5 (0-307-58967-6)
“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books On Sale: March 10, 2009 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-39402-6 (0-307-39402-6)
At the age of seventeen, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Hussein’s army. The training was brutal, with discipline enforced by regular beatings, and desertion punishable by mutilation or imprisonment. Somehow Lewis made it through and, thanks in part to his fluent English, was soon offered a post in Iraqi military...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: August 30, 2011 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-8244-2 (0-8129-8244-4)
In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins and evolution of the faith—in all its beauty and complexity. This updated edition addresses the events of the past decade, analyzing how they have influenced Islam’s position in modern culture. Aslan explores what the popular demonstrations pushing for...
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Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Focal Point On Sale: September 30, 2008 Price: $40.00 ISBN: 978-1-4262-0320-6 (1-4262-0320-9)
She lived and worked for two years in the Gaza strip, often in Islamic dress, once beaten bloody by Hamas. For several terrifying days in Somalia she was pinned down by sniper fire on the way to her hotel. She careened across the snowy Tien-Shen Mountains with Islamic fundamentalists in an...
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Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Melville House On Sale: April 27, 2010 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-1-935554-98-1 (1-935554-98-0)
Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie–and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie’s defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, “Rushdie has metastasized into an entire social class”–an ever-growing group of sharp-tongued critics of Islamist extremism, especially critics from Muslim backgrounds, who survive only...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Melville House On Sale: March 29, 2011 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-935554-44-8 (1-935554-44-1)
Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie–and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie’s defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, “Rushdie has metastasized into an entire social class”–an ever-growing group of sharp-tongued critics of Islamist extremism, especially critics from Muslim backgrounds, who survive only...
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Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: October 25, 2011 Price: $30.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6836-4 (1-4000-6836-3)
Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. With Warriors and God, Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel.
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: March 27, 2012 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-60980-382-7 (1-60980-382-5)
A nuanced history, through the eyes of the people involved, of one of the most controversial political movements in the world.
The Palestinian elections of 2006 changed modern Middle Eastern history–as well as changing the perception of the Israel/Palestine conflict around the world. How, Westerners asked, could a secular people elect a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: February 26, 2013 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7855-1 (0-8129-7855-2)
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
Inthis timely and important book, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men across the Middle East are working within...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: April 27, 2010 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6695-7 (1-4000-6695-6)
Over the centuries and throughout the world, women have struggled for equality and basic rights. Their challenge in the Middle East has been intensified by the rise of a political Islam that too often condemns women’s empowerment as Western cultural imperialism or, worse, anti-Islamic. In Paradise Beneath Her Feet, Isobel Coleman...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: For Beginners On Sale: August 21, 2007 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-934389-16-4 (1-934389-16-1)
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is in the headlines daily, but do most Americans really understand what it is about? With dramatic events happening almost every day in this region, and the US government increasingly becoming involved, the American public deserves to hear both sides. Arabs & Israel For Beginnersprovides an intelligent...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books On Sale: May 22, 2007 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-59017-238-4 (1-59017-238-8)
Who rules Iran, and how secure is their grip on a young and restless society? How should the world respond to allegations that the Islamic Republic is building nuclear weapons and supporting terrorists?
Christopher de Bellaigue traces Iran’s political upheavals since the early 1990s, from the failures of the reformist efforts...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine On Sale: September 30, 2003 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-44594-0 (0-345-44594-5)
**Named by School Library Journal as one of the Best Adult Books for High School Students, 2003
Contributing her own unique story to the growing genre of bi-cultural narratives (which includes Marie Arana’s critically-acclaimed American Chica) Carmit Delman has written a coming-of-age memoir that explores the life of an Indian Jewish girl...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: January 7, 2003 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-72141-7 (0-385-72141-2)
A knight possessed by demons, an ambitious monk skilled in exorcism, and a bloody Crusade that ends in a terrible siege lie at the heart of Michael Alexander Eisner’s action-packed medieval adventure of Christian warriors and Muslim infidels in the Holy Land.
Francisco de Montcada, the young Spanish heir to a vast...
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Format: eBook, 218 pages
Publisher: NYRB LIT On Sale: October 16, 2012 Price: $9.99 ISBN: 978-1-59017-649-8 (1-59017-649-9)
Zena el Khalil, a young Beirut-based female artist, writer, and activist who had an unconventional but worldly upbringing growing up in Lagos, Nigeria and attending art school in New York, returns after 9/11 to her familial home of Beirut and its mountains, beaches, food, music and drugs. Beirut, I Love You...Read more >
Format: eBook
Publisher: New York Review Books On Sale: May 17, 2011 Price: $4.99 ISBN: 978-1-59017-514-9 (1-59017-514-X)
In a series of riveting dispatches, Cairo native Yasmine El Rashidi provides an eyewitness account of the entire 2011 Egyptian Revolution as it unfolded, from its origins in the days leading up to the first January 25 protest in Tahrir Square through the violent confrontations with the regime and the fall...
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Format: Hardcover, 290 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli On Sale: March 7, 2006 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-8478-2753-4 (0-8478-2753-4)
Oriana Fallaci is back with her much-anticipated follow up to The Rage and the Pride, her powerful post-September 11 manifesto. The genesis for The Force of Reason was a postscript entitled Due Anni Dopo (Two Years Later), which was intended as a brief appendix to the thirtieth edition of The Rage...Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli On Sale: October 25, 2002 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-8478-2504-2 (0-8478-2504-3)
With her well-known courage Oriana Fallaci faces the themes unchained by the Islamic terrorism: the contrast and, in her opinion, incompatibility between the Islamic world and the Western world; the global reality of the Jihad and the lack of response, and the lenience of the West.
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books On Sale: June 27, 2006 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-33974-4 (0-307-33974-2)
The fifteenth of thirty-six children, Sattareh Farman Farmaian was born in Iran in 1921 to a wealthy and powerful shazdeh, or prince, and spent a happy childhood in her father’s Tehran harem. Inspired and empowered by his ardent belief in education, she defied tradition by traveling alone at the age of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: August 7, 2007 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-33806-8 (0-307-33806-1)
It’s the great untold story of the war on terror.
Taking advantage of gaping holes in America’s defenses, terrorist organizations and enemy nations like Communist China, North Korea, Russia, and Cuba—not to mention some so-called friends—are infiltrating the U.S. government to steal our most vital secrets and use them against us. And...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Melville House On Sale: January 25, 2011 Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-1-935554-38-7 (1-935554-38-7)
A definitive collection of essays and documents on the movement behind Iran's mass protests
Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series of mass protests over the official results of a presidential election—engendering...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books On Sale: August 7, 2007 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-7679-2262-3 (0-7679-2262-X)
What do our enemies believe? What motivates their war against the West? What is their vision of the ideal Islamic society? Surprisingly, more than five years after 9/11, there is very little understanding of these questions.
Despite our tendency to dismiss Islamic extremism as profoundly irrational, al-Qaeda is not without a...
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