The Arab World

Written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Robert A. Fernea

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 16, 1997
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48520-3 (0-385-48520-4)

In the decade since Anchor first published Elizabeth and Robert Fernea’s award-winning The Arab World: Personal Encounters, vast political and economic shifts have taken place: the end of the Iran-Iraq War and the Lebanese civil war; the outbreak of the Gulf War; the historic 1993 peace accords between Israel and the... Read more >

Guests of the Sheik
An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 1, 1995
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-01485-4 (0-385-01485-6)

In this absorbing account, Elizabeth Fernea examines the daily lives of women in a small rural village in southern Iraq. For two years, Fernea lived in El Nahra, Southern Iraq, where, in addition to cultural norms such as polygamy, no social communications between women and men are allowed. This ethnographic study... Read more >

In Search of Islamic Feminism

Written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 10, 1998
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48858-7 (0-385-48858-0)

To most Americans, the very idea of “Islamic feminism” would seem a contradiction in terms. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force Muslim women to accept male authority unconditionally. In In Search of Islamic Feminism, Elizabeth Fernea—acclaimed scholar, author of... Read more >

The Forever War

Written by Dexter Filkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27944-6 (0-307-27944-8)

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year

One of the Best Books of the Year:
New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, and Time

An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever War is the definitive account... Read more >

The Great War for Civilisation
The Conquest of the Middle East
Written by Robert Fisk

Format: Trade Paperback, 1136 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7517-1 (1-4000-7517-3)

WINNER OF THE 2006 LANNAN PRIZE FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM

A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the... Read more >

The Great War for Civilisation
The Conquest of the Middle East
Written by Robert Fisk

Format: Hardcover, 1136 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4151-0 (1-4000-4151-1)

During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city... Read more >

Aladdin's Lamp
How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
Written by John Freely

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27783-1 (0-307-27783-6)

Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains... Read more >

American Priestess
The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem
Written by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27772-5 (0-307-27772-0)

For generations, The American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem has been a well-known retreat for journalists, diplomats, pilgrims and spies. However, few know the story of Anna Spafford, the enigmatic evangelist who was instrumental in its founding

Branded heretics by Jerusalem’s established Christian missionaries when they arrived in 1881, the Spaffords and... Read more >

Passionate Nomad
The Life of Freya Stark
Written by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 24, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75746-4 (0-375-75746-5)

Freya Stark—traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters—began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her—and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years—in 1927. And with the publication of The Valley of the Assassins in 1934, her legend was launched.

Leaving behind a miserable family life, Freya set out... Read more >

In an Antique Land
History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
Written by Amitav Ghosh

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72783-5 (0-679-72783-3)

Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research from his journey to a small village in Egypt, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some imagined, some real, all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In An Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends... Read more >

How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

Written by Sarah Glidden

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-2234-5 (1-4012-2234-X)

When Sarah Glidden took a “Birthright Israel” tour, she thought she knew what she was getting herself into. But when she got to Israel, she found that things weren’t quite so simple. How To Understand Israel is Sarah’s memoir not only of her Israeli government sponsored trip through Tel Aviv, Jerusalem... Read more >

Prisoners
A Story of Friendship and Terror
Written by Jeffrey Goldberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72670-5 (0-375-72670-5)

During the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, Jeffrey Goldberg – an American Jew – served as a guard at the largest prison camp in Israel. One of his prisoners was Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Overcoming their fears and prejudices, the two men began a dialogue that, over more... Read more >

Cobra II
The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Written by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor

Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7539-3 (1-4000-7539-4)

Written by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the definitive account of the invasion of Iraq.

A stunning work of investigative journalism, Cobra II describes in riveting detail how the American rush to Baghdad provided the opportunity for the virulent insurgency... Read more >

The Endgame
The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
Written by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor

Format: Hardcover, 800 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-37722-7 (0-307-37722-9)

Eagerly anticipated in the wake of their national best seller Cobra II (“The superb, must-read military history of the invasion of Iraq”—Thomas L. Friedman), The Endgame is Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor’s most ambitious and news-breaking book to date. A peerless work of investigative journalism and historical recreation... Read more >

Journey from the Land of No
A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Written by Roya Hakakian

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-609-81030-9 (0-609-81030-8)

"Journey From the Land of No is an immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir. Its author begins what one may prophesy as a major literary career."
—Harold Bloom

This is an elegantly written memoir of a young Iranian-American poet and journalist about growing up in Iran during the revolution.

Roya Hakakian was raised... Read more >

Storm over Iraq
Air Power and the Gulf War
Written by Richard Hallion

Format: Trade Paperback, 386 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: March 17, 1997
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-723-9 (1-56098-723-5)

An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraq shows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product of two decades of profound changes in the American approach to defense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The first detailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought... Read more >

An Autumn of War
What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism
Written by Victor Hanson

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3113-9 (1-4000-3113-3)

On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right to respond with force. An Autumn... Read more >

The People Reloaded
The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future
Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel

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... Read more >

After the Prophet
The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
Written by Lesley Hazleton

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52394-3 (0-385-52394-7)

In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever.

Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic... Read more >

The Arab-Israeli Wars
War and Peace in the Middle East
Written by Chaim Herzog and Shlomo Gazit

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7963-6 (1-4000-7963-2)

Now in its third edition, this classic study has been updated for the first time in more than twenty years.

Chaim Herzog, former President of Israel, was involved in every conflict involving Israel and its Arab neighbors from before the 1948 War of Independence. The Arab-Israeli Wars is Herzog’s acclaimed history of... Read more >

In the Shadow of the Sword
The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Written by Tom Holland

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47365-3 (0-307-47365-1)

A thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire.

The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. In this exciting and sweeping history—the... Read more >

On Saudi Arabia
Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
Written by Karen Elliott House

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27216-4 (0-307-27216-8)

From the Pulitzer Prize—winning reporter who has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabia–as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then publisher of The Wall Street Journal–an important and timely book that explores all facets of life in this shrouded Kingdom: its tribal past, its complicated present, its precarious future.

Through... Read more >

Basti

Written by Intizar Husain
Translated by Frances W. Pritchett
Introduction by Asif Farrukhi

Format: Trade Paperback, 258 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-582-8 (1-59017-582-4)

Basti is the great Pakistani novel, a beautifully written, brilliantly inventive reckoning with the violent history of a country whose turbulence, ambitions, and uncertainties increasingly concern the whole world.

In Urdu, basti means any space, from the most intimate to the most universal, in which groups of people come together to... Read more >

The Al Qaeda Reader
The Essential Texts of Osama Bin Laden's Terrorist Organization
Edited by Raymond Ibrahim

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway
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... Read more >

Shadow War
The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir
Written by Arif Jamal

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-933633-59-6 (1-933633-59-X)

A definitive history of the Kashmiri conflict by one of Pakistan's leading reporters

For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have battled over the territory of Kashmir. The two nuclear-armed states have fought three bloody wars in the region, but the countries have also fought in the shadows.

Having interviewed a thousand militants... Read more >