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Imperial Life In The Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone . . . the enclave that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. Imperial Life in the Emerald City is an unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swi ...Show more
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
$14.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Houraniâe(tm)s masterwork was hailed as the definitive story of Arab civilization, and became both a bestseller and an instant classic. In a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture, Hourani brilliantly illuminated the people and event ...Show more
Israel and Settler Society by Lorenzo Veracini
$12.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is not unique -- whatever the news media may suggest. Lorenzo Veracini argues that the conflict is best understood in terms of colonialism. Like many other societies, Israel is a settler society. Looking in detail at the evolution of other colonial regime ...Show more
A World of Trouble : America in the Middle East by Patrick Tyler
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Presents the history of the national strategies and internal stratagems that governed the American state's involvement in the Middle East, from Nixon's Cold War manoeuvring to George W Bush's Axis of Evil.
Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
O Jerusalem! by Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
$14.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Reading Level: very good
Now a major motion picture, this remarkable classic recounts, moment by moment, the spellbinding process that gave birth to the state of Israel. Collins and Lapierre weave a brilliant tapestry of shattered hopes, fierce pride and breathtaking valor as the Arabs, Jews and British collide in their fig ...Show more
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
$12.00 NZD
Category: Middle East
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refra ...Show more
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir by John Lyons
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem ...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
Reconstructed Lives - Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution by Haleh Esfandiari
$14.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Islamic revolution of 1979 transformed all areas of Iranian life. For women, the consequences were extensive and profound, as the state set out to reverse legal and social rights women had won and to dictate many aspects of women's lives, including what they could study and how they must dress and r ...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.
