Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution by Wendell Steavenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went to Cairo to cover the story. But the revolution defied historical precedent, and it defied the templates of storytelling. There was no single villain, no lone hero, no neat conclusion tha ...Show more
Cain's FieldFaith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East by Matt Rees
$16.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
In this gripping, in-the-trenches account of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, award-winning journalist Matt Rees takes us deep within Israeli and Palestinian societies to reveal the fractures at the core of both. While the world focuses almost exclusively on the violent clash between the two camps, Re ...Show more
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Winner, Jewish Book Council's Everett FAmily foundation award, Jewish Book of the Year Winner, American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal for Best Jewish Book of the Year Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review In restoring Jewish sovereignty to the Holy City during 1967's Six-Day War, the ...Show more
Turkish Awakening: Behind the Scenes of Modern Turkey by Alev Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
Born in London to a Turkish mother and British father, Alev Scott moved to Istanbul to discover what it means to be Turkish in a country going through rapid political and social change, with an extraordinary past still linked to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and an ever more surprising present under the leaders ...Show more
The New American Judaism - How Jews Practice Their Religion Today by Jack Wertheimer
$70.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A leading expert provides an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism todayAmerican Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years, and many who ...Show more
Into Iraq by Michael Palin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A fascinating and rare insight into the history and culture of Iraq, by Britain's best-loved travel writer. In March 2022, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin journeyed along the River Tigris and into Iraq to gain a glimpse of life in an area of the world that can claim ...Show more
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari SHAVIT
$45.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today. Not since Thomas Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised ...Show more
Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land by Gary L. Rashba
$49.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
The key battles fought over 3000 years of turbulent history in the Holyland, from ancient times to today's Arab-Israeli conflict Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest episode in an unending history of violence in the Holyland, a region that is unsurpassed as witn ...Show more
No Mission is Impossible by Michael/Mishal, Nissim Bar-Zohar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
The 30 boldest missions of the Israeli Special Forces since the inception of Israel. No Mission is Impossible is an episodic treatment of the greatest missions of the Israeli Special Forces, characterized by its lead piece, an intriguing story of the rescue of 200 hijacked airline passengers at Entebbe, ...Show more
Women With Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity by Afsaneh Najmabadi
$57.95 AUD
Category: Middle East
Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a ...Show more