Among the Believers - An Islamic journey by V.S. Naipaul
$14.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism.Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia. The 'Believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battl ...Show more
Bible and Sword - England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour by Barbara W Tuchman
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain's long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Historically, the British were drawn to the H ...Show more
The Crusades through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
$12.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
Retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, presents an intriguing chronicle of the Crusades, and offers insights into the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.
Women of Afghanistan by Isabelle Delloye
$14.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
Seven Pillars of Wisdom - A Triumph by T E Lawrence
$85.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel by Thanassis Cambanis
$10.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
Dreams and Shadows - The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright
$20.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
A magnificent reckoning with the extraordinary changes engulfing the Middle East, by one of our greatest reporters on the region. Robin Wright first landed in the Middle East on October 6, 1973, the day the fourth Middle East war erupted. She has covered every country and most major crises in the region ...Show more
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society: Updated with a New Preface by Lila Abu-Lughod
$16.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
This updated edition is presented with a new Preface. Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evoca ...Show more
The Killing in the Consulate by Jonathan Rugman
$15.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
'Reporting at its best. Immaculately researched, sober and informative' John le Carré 'Compulsory reading...fast-paced and brilliantly written' Jeremy Bowen After Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was filmed going in to the Saudi consulate in Turkey, he was never seen alive again. What happene ...Show more
Egypt After Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World by Bruce K. Rutherford
$15.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics | Reading Level: very good
Which way will Egypt go now that Husni Mubarak's authoritarian regime has been swept from power? Will it become an Islamic theocracy similar to Iran? Will it embrace Western-style liberalism and democracy? Egypt after Mubarak reveals that Egypt's secularists and Islamists may yet navigate a middle path ...Show more
The Culture of Sectarianism - Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon by Ussama S. Makdisi
$16.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social an ...Show more
The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan by Jon Lee Anderson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The New Yorker correspondent and author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life shares a series of reports from Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, describing a dangerous world of violence, feudal society, conspiracy, religious fanaticism, hardship, and war. Reprint.