History - Middle East

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The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Isra...

Alan Dershowitz

In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine–and explains how to move around them and push the process forward. From the division of Jerusalem and Israeli counterter...

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Published: Sep 2005

The Case for Israel

Alan M. Dershowitz

Widely respected as a civil libertarian, legal educator, and defense attorney extraordinaire, Alan M. Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel. In this book, he presents an ardent defense of Isra...

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Published: Nov 2015

Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret ...

Matti Friedman

"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." --The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, di...

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Published: Feb 2020

Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of People...

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab pe...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines o...

Steven Pressfield

The thrilling true story of one of the most unlikely and astonishing military victories in history.June 5, 1967. Israel is surrounded by enemies who want nothing less than her utter extinction. The Soviet-equipped Egyptian Army has ma...

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Published: May 2015

Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Isra...

Dan Raviv

Fully updated for 2014 to include tumultuous events in Syria, Egypt, Iran, and the entire Middle East, SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON: INSIDE ISRAEL'S SECRET WARS covers more ground than any other book about modern-day Israel. Its 25 action...

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Published: Mar 2014

Under the Black Flag: At the Frontier...

Moubayed Sami

The Islamic State movement (ISIS/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian Revolt, the organisation has expanded in ideology and membership and now poses a signifi...

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Published: Oct 2015

Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hos...

Mark Bowden

From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the ...

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Published: Mar 2007

Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside St...

Gerald Posner

This investigative report on the House of Saud, and its connections to America's business and political communities, uncovers a wealth of information and asks some profoundly disturbing questions about what was long considered America...

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Published: Jun 2005

How the West Stole Democracy from the...

The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy—and how the West crushed it When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt a...

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Published: Apr 2021

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: ...

Benjamin Ajak

Christopher Award WinnerLos Angeles Times BestsellerWashington Post Top 100 Books of the Year SelectionA stunning literary survival story of three young Sudanese boys, two brothers and a cousin-hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a &qu...

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Published: Aug 2015

Fractured Lands: How the Arab World C...

Scott Anderson

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq.In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shoo...

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Published: May 2017

The Idea of the Muslim World: A Globa...

Cemil Aydin

“Superb… A tour de force.”―Ebrahim Moosa“Provocative… Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a Muslim world and the relentless efforts to exploit that idea for political ends.”―Wash...

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Published: Apr 2019

Carta's Historical Atlas of Jerusalem...

Dan Bahat

A concise study of the Holy City through 4,000 years of history. Successive maps show Jerusalem in every significant epoch from its beginnings in biblical times till today. Texts for each period present the city's history and discuss ...

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Published: Mar 2015

No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-D...

Michael Bar-Zohar

A riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal’s account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli Special Fo...

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Published: Nov 2016

Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Moss...

Raffi Berg

THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from aro...

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Published: Mar 2021

Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater...

Max Blumenthal

In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold ...

Jerry Brotton

The fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth's secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to empire, by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve MapsWe think of England as a great p...

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Published: Sep 2017

I Am Cyrus: Harry S. Truman and the R...

Craig Von Buseck

Improbable, if not impossible. How could a people who'd been scattered for two millennia reestablish a homeland on their ancient soil?Against all odds, an irresistible desire to return grew in courageous Jewish men and women who set o...

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Published: Apr 2019

A Caravan of Brides: A Novel of Saudi...

Kay Hardy Campbell

After attending college in Lebanon, Fawzia returns home to Jeddah and takes up secretly with her forbidden college sweetheart. When her reckless behavior leads to family tragedy, she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a mysteri...

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Published: Sep 2017

Israel and Palestine: The Complete Hi...

Ian Carroll

In July 2018, Israel's Knesset approved the Nation-State Bill, a controversial piece of legislation, both at home and abroad, which declared Israel a sovereign state for the Jewish people. It followed US President Donald Trump's 2017 ...

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Published: Jan 2019

Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient...

James Carroll

“Provocative . . . the book brims with splendid insights.” — Los Angeles TimesJerusalem: the ancient City on a Hill, a place central to three major religions, a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervor unlike ...

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Published: Apr 2012

Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: In...

Noam Chomsky

Chomsky argues that appreciating the differences between state terror and nongovernmental terror is crucial to stopping terrorism, and understanding why atrocities like the bombing of the World Trade Center happen.

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Published: Nov 2014

My House in Damascus: An Inside View ...

Diana Darke

How did Syria's revolution reach this its current boiling point? And what's next? This updated edition of My House in Damascus offers an insider's view on these questions and the darker recesses of Syria's history, politics, and soci...

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Published: Aug 2015

Little Judah in America

Huldah Dauid

Little Judah in America is a story about a young boy who has embraced his Hebrew heritage and is determined to make Yah proud. During the Shabbat, Little Judah shares with his friends about the history of the Hebrew people, and why he...

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Published: Feb 2017

Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of ...

Christopher de Bellaigue

"A finely written, brave, and very personal book." -Orhan Pamuk In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue wrote a story for The New York Review of Books, in which he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million A...

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Published: Mar 2011

The Islamic Enlightenment: The Strugg...

Christopher De Bellaigue

"The finest Orientalist of his generation" (Wall Street Journal) rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. In this "stylishly written, surprisingly moving chronicle" (Har...

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Published: Aug 2018

The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatc...

Janine Di Giovanni

A New York Post Best Book of 2016 Winner of the 2016 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award Winner of the 2016 Hay Festival Medal for Prose "Destined to become a classic." ―Lisa Shea, ElleA masterpiece of war reportage, The Morn...

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Published: May 2017

Killing a King: The Assassination of ...

Dan Ephron

One of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year.The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel’s recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the tra...

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Published: Oct 2016

Method and Madness: The Hidden Story ...

Norman Finkelstein

In the past five years, Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Opera...

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Published: May 2016
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