Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: August 25, 2009 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-37820-0 (0-307-37820-9)
“One of the most daring female writers of the Middle East” (San Francisco Chronicle) gives us an extraordinary work of nonfiction: an account of her mother’s remarkable life, at the core of which is a tale of undying love.
In a masterly act of literary transformation, Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Publisher: Doubleday Religion On Sale: August 18, 2009 Price: $27.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-51816-1 (0-385-51816-1)
From one of today’s leading Muslim scholars, this compelling look at how the Prophet Muhammad has been portrayed throughout the centuries offers a fascinating history of the diversity of Islamic cultures and beliefs.
The Prophet Muhammad has been revered for more than fifteen centuries. Today, one in five people throughout the world...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Publisher: Knopf On Sale: May 5, 2009 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-26978-2 (0-307-26978-7)
“With the many books about Iran flooding the shelves, it is a joy to come across Censoring an Iranian Love Story, which offers a perspective that is neither sentimental nor nostalgic, romanticized nor demonized. Looking at his country and its inhabitants through a fiction writer’s authentic spectacles, Shahriar Mandanipour has written a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 6, 2009 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7828-8 (1-4000-7828-8)
The first major account of the life of an extraordinary soldier and statesman, King Hussein of Jordan.
Throughout his long reign (1953—1999), Hussein remained a dominant figure in Middle Eastern politics and a consistent proponent of peace with Israel. For over forty years he walked a tightrope between Palestinians and Arab radicals...
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