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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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Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	Drinking the Sea at Gaza Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege Amira Hass; Translated by Maxine Nunn Picador In 1993, amira hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Housebroken Three Novellas Yael Hedaya; Translated by Dalya Bilu Picador The men, women, and even animals in this collection live at the mercy of their hearts. Young and old, on two legs or four, they grope for love and tenderness,...

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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 River

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Gertrude Bell

Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations

Georgina Howell Sarah Crichton Books

A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to...

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Warrior's Honor Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience Michael Ignatieff A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's...

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Einstein on Israel and Zionism

His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East

Fred Jerome St. Martin's Press

Albert Einstein thought and wrote extensively not just on the most difficult problems in physics, but also in politics. For the first time, this book collects...

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Kabul in Winter

Life Without Peace in Afghanistan

Ann Jones Picador

Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her...

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Age of Orphans A Novel Laleh Khadivi Bloomsbury USA Told with an evocative richness of language that recalls Michael Ondaatje or Anita Desai, the story of Reza Khourdi is that of the 20th century everyman, cast...

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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 1001 Nights with a doctor in a refugee camp playing the part of Scheherazade, fills in the blank spaces on the Middle Eastern map in our Western heads."—John Leonard, Harper's Magazine

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	City Gates Elias Khoury; Translated by Paula Haydar Picador 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.

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Little Mountain Elias Khoury; Foreword by Edward W. Said; Translated by Maia Tabet Picador "Khoury's picaresque ramblings through the Lebanese landscapes offered by civil combat reveal areas of uncertainty and perturbation unthought of before."—Edward W. Said

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The Journey of Little Gandhi

Elias Khoury; Translated by Paula Haydar Picador

"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."—Le Monde

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Yalo A Novel Elias Khoury Picador “In Lebanon, there is passion and there is blood. Elias Khoury’s new novel, Yalo, heavy with both, is a dizzying journey into the extremes of human experience—into the intense sensuality and stomach-turning violence."—Adam LeBor, The New York Times Book Review

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Crescent and Star Turkey Between Two Worlds Stephen Kinzer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks "An intriguing portrait of a pivotal nation in historic transition."—Robert D. Kaplan, author of Balkan Ghosts

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Reset

Iran, Turkey, and America's Future

Stephen Kinzer St. Martin's Griffin

"In Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future, [Kinzer] proposes a radical new course for the United States in the region. The United States, he argues, needs to partner with Iran and Turkey to create a 'powerful triangle' whose activities would promote a culture of democracy and combat extremism . . . Kinzer's U.S.-lranian-Turkish alliance is a longterm project, and the idea has ample grounding in the modern history of the region. Unlike other Muslim countries there, Kinzer shows, Iran and Turkey have at least a century's worth of experience struggling for political freedom . . . [and] share some fundamental values with the United States."—Foreign Affairs

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The Monks of Tibhirine

Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria

John W. Kiser St. Martin's Griffin

"Kiser is the first American to have told the full story . . . What makes this book so unusual and yet useful for students is the way the author has combined solid research and profound analysis with compelling writing and personal engagement in the story. It is part mystery, part love story and part historical journalism of a very high order. There are precious few such books on the market. The Monks of Tibhirine brings together history, politics and stories of faith that is lived amid fear and violence in a style that is dramatic, inspiring and extremely educational. In this sense it is an excellent tool for teaching students about the Muslim world in which religion infuses life . . . This is an extraordinary story of the meeting of two peoples within the Abrahamic tradition who believed that, the violence notwithstanding, the destiny of all of them was to live together joined in charity and friendship. Kiser's book, as history and witness to faith, would be a valuable companion for many courses on religious studies, history and cultural studies of the Arab and Muslim worlds, but most of all for courses that seek to advance Christian Muslim understanding. I am going to be using it for my religion and conflict resolution course and am also recommending it as well to the Middle Eastern studies department."—Andrea Bartoli, Director, Center for International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Resource Wars The New Landscape of Global Conflict Michael T. Klare A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book "Brilliantly researched, ably argued . . . Resource Wars shows a new geography of conflict based on looming scarcities. Klare's analysis is indisputable."—David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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City of Gold

Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism

Jim Krane Picador

Just a dusty fishing village in the 1950s, Dubai has grown faster than any other city in the world to become a glittering mecca for investors and...

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Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	War Without End Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land Anton La Guardia; Revised and Updated St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books "War Without End is a thorough, dispassionate look at the history [as well as] the contemporary, complex realities of the struggle between the Israelis and the Palestinians."—*Los Angeles Times*

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The Atomic Bazaar

Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking

William Langewiesche Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

“The Atomic Bazaar is an excellent introduction to this most discomfiting topic. It is remarkably comprehensive for a short book, especially given its pacy narrative. Through detailed reporting—from closed nuclear cities in the southern Urals to smuggler trails in Kurdistan—the author corrects many popular misunderstandings about the nuclear business.”—The Economist

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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, confesses to the power Kurdistan holds on him. The Kurds have clearly worked on his heart, and it shows in the way he tells the story of a people who have made themselves central not just to American plans in Iraq but also in the wider Middle East."—The New York Times Book Review

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Aliya

Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel

Liel Leibovitz St. Martin's Griffin

Why would American Jews---not just materially successful in this country but, perhaps for the first time in the entire 2000-year Jewish Diaspora, truly...

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Trade Paperback : $14.99 Buy	Bliss A Novel O. Z. Livaneli St. Martin's Griffin Fifteen-year-old Meryem lives in a rural village in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Her simple, conventional way of life changes dramatically after her uncle, a...