Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman ; Colum Mccann ; Colm Toibin ; Dave Eggers ; Geraldine Brooks ; Jacqueline Woodson ; Mario Vargas Llosa
$28.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Cha ...Show more
Islamic Enlightenment by Christopher de Bellaigue
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Selected as a book of the year 2017 by the Times Literary Supplement and the Sunday Times ('At a time when the gulf between Islam and the West yawns distressingly wide, De Bellaigue's book is a welcome and surprising corrective' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times) ...Show more
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason by Christopher De Bellaigue
$60.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
The Islamic Enlightenment: a contradiction in terms? The Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise, reform and adapt. But, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day, Islamic society in its Middle Eastern heartlands has in fact been transformed by modern ideals a ...Show more
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrere
$49.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
"The next morning everything seems different to him. The sky is no longer the same, the people are no longer the same. He knows that a man came back from the dead and that from now on his own life will no longer be the same.' Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, ...Show more
A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book, fully updated to 2009, follows the historic struggles of the region over the last two hundred years, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman ...Show more
The Fall of Heaven by Andrew Scott Cooper
$49.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived ass ...Show more
All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Middle East
This is the national bestseller about America and Iran - now with new material on the coming showdown. This new edition of the bestseller chosen as one of the best books of the year by the "Washington Post" and the "Economist" begins with a powerful new essay that warns against an American attack on Ira ...Show more
Black Flags: The Rise of Isis by Joby Warrick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016. In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the world's greatest threat. When the government of Jordan ...Show more
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
This is a book about Palestine today. It is neither apologetic nor romanticized, but a powerful and brilliantly realized scream of a book, scorching and tender, from a journalist whose anger and empathy burn through every word. Over the past three years, Ben Ehrenreich has shared the laughter, fury and ...Show more
The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
In The New Threat renowned expert and prize-winning reporter Jason Burke provides the clearest and most comprehensive guide to Islamic militancy today. From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen to the capitals of Europe, Islamic militancy appears stronger, more widespread and more threa ...Show more
Syrian Dust: Reporting from the Heart of the War by Francesca Borri
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
August 21, 2013: a chemical weapons attack on the suburbs of Damascus reminds the world of the existence of the Syrian war. Hundreds of journalists from every corner of the world rush to the frontier only to leave disappointed when Obama decides not to bomb. They leave behind 200,000 estimated victims, ...Show more