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Steve Coll

The Achilles Trap

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2024** From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam Hussein The Achille…

Land and Trade in Early Islam

Land and Trade in Early Islam discusses the latest developments in the field of early Islamic economic and social history, focusing on the period between 700 and 1050 CE. The book draws on recent scholars…

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

A Stranger in Your Own City

SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 '…

Mohamed Zayani, Joe F Khalil

The Digital Double Bind

The Middle East's digital turn has renewed hopes of socio-economic development and political change across the region, but it is also marked by stark contradictions and historical tensions. In this book, …

David Hale

American Diplomacy Toward Lebanon

Lebanon's significance to the Middle East and the global arena is greater than its small size suggests - bordering Israel and Syria, it holds a geo-strategic role as the playing field for their competitio…

S.O.D.

Speak English Or Die (Platinum Edition)

Sabrina Ghayour,

Persiana

A special edition of the award-winning cookbook from the beloved Sabrina Ghayour. Persiana features over 100 flavorful and mouthwatering recipes that highlight the best of Persian culture. A celebration …

Bruce Riedel

Beirut 1958

Bruce Riedel's book tells the now-forgotten story (forgotten, that is, in the United States) of the first U.S. combat operation in the Middle East. Find out about the 1958 U.S. intervention that succeeded…

On Barak

Heat, a History

"This elegant and witty book brings the galactic scale of 'warming' down to the intimate level of heat, sweat, and bodies, thus inviting the reader to ask why we tend to prefer abstractions to embodied ex…

On Barak

Heat, a History

"This elegant and witty book brings the galactic scale of 'warming' down to the intimate level of heat, sweat, and bodies, thus inviting the reader to ask why we tend to prefer abstractions to embodied ex…

Barnaby Rogerson

The House Divided

An incisive look at the past, present, and future of the religious divide that lies at the heart of the Middle East. At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400…

Gaar Adams

Guest Privileges

An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction'An eye-opening tour de force' ALEX ESPINOZA'Exh…

Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar

Target Tehran

With a new Afterword for the paperback edition, Jerusalem Post reporters Bob and Evyatar draw on confidential sources in Mossad, Israel's equivalent to our CIA, to tell the remarkable story of how Israel …

Afshon Ostovar

Wars of Ambition

In Wars of Ambition, Afshon Ostovar explores America's decline and Iran's rise in the Middle East since 9/11 and through 2023. It examines America's involvement in the region, Iran's counter to it, and ho…

Steve Coll

The Achilles Trap

The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations dur…

Noa Schonmann

Israel's Phantom Pact

For Israel, a small state surrounded by what it perceives as hostile neighbours, foreign policy has been stamped as the key to its survival. By embarking on what is now called Israel's 'Periphery Pact' in…

Charles H Dyer, Stanley Ellisen

Who Owns the Land?

Who Owns the Land? That's the question being asked in homes and on college campuses all over the world. There are accusations. Anger. And pain. Are the Israelis occupiers and oppressors? What is the histo…

Jonathan Parry

Promised Lands

A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle East Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Emp…

Agatha Christie

Come, Tell Me How You Live

Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. I…