Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm
$50.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria's wide-ranging conquests have long be ...Show more
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
" An elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-The Wall Street Journal"A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places and peoples he first encountered decades ago."-Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsONE OF ...Show more
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's battle for its inner soul by Isabel Kershner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel - the last fifteen for The New York Times - presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people today at a critical juncture in their country's history. A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portr ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City by Matthew Teller
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Original and illuminating ... what a good book this is' Jonathan Dimbleby'A love letter to the people of the Old City' Jerusalem PostIn Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn't reflect the reality of ...Show more
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem ...Show more
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East by Barnaby Rogerson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory StewartRogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating' William DalrympleAt the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400- ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid I. Khalidi
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam Chomsky The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denia ...Show more
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D. Kaplan
$55.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century "Continuing Robert D. Kaplan's work as the premier American scholar of geopolitics . . . a book that everyone who wa ...Show more
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I - A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
$45.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi' Hisham Matar, New York TimesAziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of best ...Show more
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms (HB) by Richard Fidler
$45.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled a ...Show more