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One Country
A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
Ali Abunimah
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"A provocative and well-written account attacking the same failure of imagination that delivered to the world the present Arab-Israeli calamity."—
Clayton E. Swisher,
Middle East Policy
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A Shameful Act
The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
Taner Akcam
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"Turkish historian Akçam capably refutes those who deny the Armenian genocide, who will probably not change their minds. No one knows how many Armenians died at Turkish hands in the 1910s, but the number almost certainly exceeds one million. Akçam, writing from the safe distance of the University of Minnesota, has worked through thousands and thousands of documents to find concrete evidence thereof, against considerable difficulty . . . Of profound importance to history—and certain to stir up nests of hornets."—
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American Islam
The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion
Paul M. Barrett
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"Few communities are simultaneously as important and as poorly understood as the Muslims of the United States. Eye-opening, penetrating, and unfailingly honest,
American Islam
brings us deep into the lives of influential doers and thinkers across the spectrum of Muslim diversity. Paul Barrett's intelligence and keen eye for detail make the book a pleasure to read; his admirable balance in writing about controversial figures makes it a major contribution to the continuing debate about the future of Islam in the United States."—
Noah Feldman, author of
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Yemen Chronicle
An Anthropology of War and Mediation
Steven C. Caton
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"[
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Yemen Chronicle
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Israel Is Real
Rich Cohen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Rich Cohen's book accomplished the miraculous. It made a subject that has vexed me since early childhood into a riveting story. Not by breaking new ground or advancing a bold peace plan, but by narrating the oft-told saga of the Jews in a fresh and engaging fashion.”—
Tony Horwitz,
The New York Times
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Trickster Travels
A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
Natalie Zemon Davis
Hill and Wang
"The first comprehensive reconstruction of al-Wazzan's life. Drawing on archival material and the accounts of contemporaries, the distinguished historian and author of
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Los Angeles Times
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Devil's Game
How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
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Robert Dreyfuss
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"Crisp, lively . . . Provides a concise and readable account of the evolution of America's partnerships with radical Islamic groups and regimes."—
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Mirrors of the Unseen
Journeys in Iran
Jason Elliot
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"Elliot reports on the 'double life' of the Persians he meets, who unanimously denounce the ruling mullahs. One insists that you're nobody in Iran if you haven't been imprisoned; another rolls his eyes at the author's obsessive trawling of mosques, protesting, 'People will think I'm with a fanatic.' The book is replete with historical arcana . . . ruminations on the 'turbulent calligraphies' of Islamic architecture, and labyrinthine footnotes . . . Elliot is a travel writer of the old school: untethered to an itinerary, eager to be led astray, and as ardent an observer of the experience of traveling as of his destination."—
The New Yorker
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America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
Noah Feldman
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"A substantial and important defense of why America should support democratic reform and not the authoritarian status quo in much of the Muslim world. In the follow-up to the conflict in Iraq, no subject could be more timely."—
Emran Qureshi,
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A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
David Fromkin
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"One of the first books to take an effective panoramic view of what was happening, not only in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and the Arab regions of Asia but also in Afghanistan and central Asia . . . Readers will come away from
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The New York Times Book Review
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The Accidental Empire
Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
Gershom Gorenberg
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"Gershom Gorenberg . . . has produced a remarkably insightful third account . . . It's a groundbreaking revision that deserves to reframe the entire debate . . . Yet it still soars. The book works powerfully on two important levels: as a deeply informative counterhistory and as a mournful reminder of what happens when a democratic government acquiesces in the face of its own militants."—
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Writing in the Dark
Essays on Literature and Politics
David Grossman; Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"[Grossman's] own son, Uri, dies on the last day before a truce in the Second Lebanon War, yet the author of
See Under: Love
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The Book of Intimate Grammar
still resists bloody vengeance, still insists on humanity.
Writing in the Dark
, his latest collection of essays, ranges from 'Books That Have Read Me' (by Sholem Aleichem Bruno Schulz, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann) to 'Contemplations on Peace' (necessitating what 'acquired naïveté calls'), with sidelong looks at language in politics and what might be learned from the Other . . . Just listen to him."—
John Leonard,
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The Photographer
Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Emmanuel Guibert
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"It is impossible to know war if you do not stand with the mass of the powerless caught in its maw. All narratives of war told through the lens of the combatants carry with them the seduction of violence. But once you cross to the other side, to stand in fear with the helpless and the weak, you confront the moral depravity of industrial slaughter and the scourge that is war itself. Few books achieve this clarity.
The Photographer
is one. A strange book, part photojournalism and part graphic memoir,
The Photographer
tells the story of a small mission of mostly French doctors and nurses who traveled into northern Afghanistan by horse and donkey train in 1986, at the height of the Soviet occupation. The book shows the damage done to bodies and souls by shells, bullets and iron fragments, and the frantic struggle to mend the broken."
—Chris Hedges,
The New York Times
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A Season in Mecca
Narrative of a Pilgrimage
Abdellah Hammoudi; Translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh
Hill and Wang
Winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award
"These observations offer readers an intimate, insider's account of the minutiae of a hajj, particularly intriguing for those of us who will never be able to come any closer."—
Marjorie Kehe,
The Christian Science Monitor
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The Spiders of Allah
Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy War
James Hider
St. Martin's Griffin
“Thank God (although after reading this book you might stop believing in a higher power) for James Hider. After working as a reporter on all the major frontlines of the War on Terror, he has produced a masterpiece that strips away the propaganda and prejudice that blights analysis of the first global conflict of the 21st Century. It is a work of great authority written with wit and wisdom.”—
Tim Butcher, author of
Blood
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Gate of the Sun
Elias Khoury; Translated by Humphrey Davies
Picador
"Readers can no longer pretend that Palestine is merely a fugitive state of mind, a convenient Arab myth, a traumatic tribal memory, and somebody else's problem. This remarkable novel out of Lebanon, a skillful reshuffling of the
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John Leonard,
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City Gates
Elias Khoury; Translated by Paula Haydar
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Drawing on the traditions of Arabic storytelling, Elias Khoury's fable of displacement, first published in Arabic in 1981, follows a stranger as he arrives in a gated city and wanders through its labyrinthine streets in search of the city's future—and his own.
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The Journey of Little Gandhi
Elias Khoury; Translated by Paula Haydar
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"How to tell the story of a city [Beirut] that has changed from the Switzerland of the East, to its Hong Kong, then its Saigon, and finally its Calcutta. [Elias Khoury] has succeeded, as only a great novelist can do."—
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A Novel
Elias Khoury
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“In Lebanon, there is passion and there is blood. Elias Khoury’s new novel,
Yalo
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Adam LeBor,
The New York Times Book Review
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Invisible Nation
How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
Quil Lawrence
Walker & Company
"Quil Lawrence, who has spent much of this decade reporting from Iraq for the BBC/PRI radio program
The World
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The New York Times Book Review
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Origins
A Memoir
Amin Maalouf; Translated from the French by Catherine Temerson
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"Along comes Amin Maalouf with his lovely, complex memoir,
Origins
, to remind us that Arab identity is as fluid, unsettled and ever-changing as the Mediterranean Sea where it kisses the shores of Lebanon, his country of origin, and France, where he has lived for the last 30 years . . . Maalouf doesn’t only want to illuminate family history or amplify stories barely whispered for a hundred years; instead, he strives to reveal the fecund variety of his own family, of Arab life and history, of history itself. In doing so, he offers a lesson in the value of impermanence and shifting sands . . . Maalouf wants nothing more than to unwind the long scarf of memory and history, not to make a claim, but in celebration of human dignity, endeavor and 'wanderers who have lost their way.' He is one of that small handful of writers, like David Grossman and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who are indispensable to us in our current crisis."—
Jonathan Wilson,
The New York Times Book Review
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The Trouble with Islam Today
A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith
Irshad Manji
St. Martin's Griffin
"Feels like a revelation . . . a raw nerve ending for the West—shocking, raw, but mercifully, joyously, still alive."—
Andrew Sullivan,
New York Times Book Review
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
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"Political theorists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt show how the right to the pursuit of happiness presently enables foreign governments to exert adverse influence over foreign-policy questions of war and peace simply by coordinating the expression of private citizens' ostensible self-interest. Public-choice scholars and other curious individuals will relish the analysis and insights presented in
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James A. Montanye,
The Independent Review
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Once Upon a Country
A Palestinian Life
Sari Nusseibeh with Anthony David
Picador
“Mr. Nusseibeh’s very existence poses a challenge to many Israelis’ beliefs about themselves. But as
Once Upon a Country
, his fascinating and deeply intelligent memoir, makes clear, Mr. Nusseibeh is really an Israeli dream . . . Such refreshing self-deprecation—rare in Arab public writing—runs throughout this memoir, one of the best personal accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ever written.”—
Ethan Bronner,
The New York Times
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