Trade Books for Courses :: Trade Books For Courses: Middle Eastern Studies Middle Eastern Studies Books

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	We Look Like the Enemy The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands Rachel Shabi Walker & Company Ethnic bias against Middle Eastern Jews within Israel has far-reaching implications for the whole region. Middle Eastern Jews from Egypt, Morocco, Iraq,...

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Night Draws Near

Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War

Anthony Shadid Picador

"In an incisive and eloquent new book, the Washington Post reporter Anthony Shadid tells the story of a man named Sabah, who is accused of being a United States informer in the town of Thuluyah . . . Sabah's story is only one of many tragic stories to be found in Night Draws Near, a book that gives a harrowing portrait of life in postwar Iraq and the fallout that the American war has had on ordinary Iraqi civilians . . . Night Draws Near . . . also provides a damning account of the Bush administration's failure to prepare adequately for the postwar occupation of Iraq, and of its missteps and miscalculations in the wake of toppling Saddam Hussein."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Nonfiction
Helen Bernstein Book Award - Nominee - Excellence in Journalism

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Hardcover : $75.00 Buy	Access to Knowledge in Egypt New Research in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development Edited by Nagla Rizk and Lea Shaver Bloomsbury USA "This is a 'must read' for scholars and practioners interested in economic development, cultural production and access to knowledge"—Susan Sell, George Washington University

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Beirut 39 New Writing from the Arab World Samuel Shimon, Amin Maalouf, and Tahar Ben Jelloun Bloomsbury USA Beirut is the 2009 World Book Capital, as designated by UNESCO, and at the center of the festivities, in collaboration with the world-renowned Hay Festival, is...

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Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies

Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation

Barbara Slavin St. Martin's Griffin

In Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies, Barbara Slavin untangles the love-hate relationship between Iran and the United States that has brought the two countries to...

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Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Islamic Design A Genius for Geometry Wooden Books Daud Sutton Walker & Company An exploration of the construction and meaning of Islamic geometric patterns. Throughout their long history the craft traditions of the Islamic world...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Hidden Iran Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic Ray Takeyh Holt Paperbacks "Hidden Iran addresses the fundamental questions that plague policy officials (and ordinary citizens) in the West . . . A skillful policy brief, written in a smooth, graceful style that is accessible."—Gary Sick, Foreign Affairs

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Gideon's Spies

The Secret History of the Mossad

Gordon Thomas St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be surrounded by myth and mystery, or commands respect and fear,...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Lemon Tree An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East Sandy Tolan Bloomsbury USA In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Faith at War A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu Yaroslav Trofimov Picador "This book deserves a wide readership. The Muslims don't understand us, we don't understand them. Faith at War goes a long way toward solving the second part of that dismal equation."—Philip Caputo, The New York Times Book Review

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A World of Trouble

The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror

Patrick Tyler Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"An authoritative, richly detailed account of American policy in the Middle East . . . [Tyler] writes vividly, allowing the reader access to White House meetings, huddles in the corridors of power, seats at international summits."—Adam LeBor, The New York Times

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We Meant Well

How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People

American Empire Project

Peter Van Buren Metropolitan Books

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq—a shocking and...

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Hardcover : $26.99 Buy	The Land of Blood and Honey The Rise of Modern Israel Martin van Creveld Thomas Dunne Books The definitive one-volume history of Israel by its most distinguished historian From its Zionist beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century through the...

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Captive

My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

Jere Van Dyk St. Martin's Griffin

Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Honeymoon in Purdah An Iranian Journey Alison Wearing Picador With a love of travel, Alison Wearing invites us to journey with her to Iran--a country that few Westerners have a chance to see. Traveling with a male friend,...

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Pakistan

Deep Inside the World's Most Frightening State

Mary Anne Weaver; With a New Introduction and Afterword Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

No nation is more critical to U.S. foreign policy than nuclear-armed Pakistan. Wedged between India and Afghanistan, it is the second largest country in the...

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Taking Back Islam

American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith

Edited by Michael Wolfe and the Producers of Beliefnet Rodale Books

Winner of the Wilbur Award for Best Religion Book

"This intelligent, thoughtful collection of writings from dozens of contributors is the thinking person's guide to Islam in a post-9/11 America. It is only fitting that a major world religion be represented by multiple voices. Wolfe gathers excerpts from postings to the Beliefnet Web site, as well as brief essays from established authorities such as Karen Armstrong, practitioners like Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), and new voices such as Asma Hasan and Aasma Khan . . . The book works well for both Muslim and non-Muslim readers. It is both an exploration of contemporary Islam (Has it been hijacked by extremists? Is it violent? Can Islamic states be democratic?) and a call for Muslims to reclaim their faith by mobilizing the moderate, seemingly silent, majority . . . An eye-opening survey of the minds and passions of progressive Muslims in the United States [that] offers hope for greater interfaith understanding."—Publishers Weekly

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