An Improbable Friendship by Anthony David
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
"The extraordinary true story of a secret forty-year friendship between two women who should have been bitter enemies. One- the beautiful Raymonda Tawil, the mother-in-law of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The other- Ruth Dayan, widow of General Moshe Dayan, the most celebrated Jewish general since J ...Show more
Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism by Mohammed El-Nawawy
$49.95 AUD
Category: Middle East | Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and its role in paving the way to democratization and socio-political change in Egypt, which culminated in Egypt's historical popular revolution on Jan. 25, 2011 ...Show more
Baghdad: City Of Peace, City Of Blood by Justin Marozzi
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great ha ...Show more
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
Lying in Tehran is about survival. Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is sold in the sprawling bazaars; a place where or ...Show more
Inside Isis: The Brutal Rise of a Terrorist Army by Benjamin Hall
$49.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
Despite numerous warnings from intelligence services, ISIS' rise to power has left countries around the world floundering for solutions. Today, we face a threat that is more violent, powerful and financially stronger than ever before. In this book, journalist Benjamin Hall will provide insights by answe ...Show more
Lawrence in Arabia - War, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.com's Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014 The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter i ...Show more
Israel: A History by Anita Shapira
$31.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late 19th century to the present day. Anita Shapira's gripping narrative explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe against the backdrop of relations a ...Show more
The Nile: Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present by Toby Wilkinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers a ...Show more
Isis: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern
$29.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014. Drawing on their unusual access to intelligence sources and material, law enforcement, and groundbreaking research into open source intelligence, Jessica Stern and J M Berger outline the orig ...Show more
Iran: A Beginner's Guide by Homa Katouzian
$22.00 AUD
Category: Middle East | Series: Beginner's Guides
As the Western-Iranian impasse continues to dominate international affairs, politicians and the media confidently proclaim Iran the greatest threat to the Western World. But this villainous mask obscures a far more complex identity formed by a vibrant and tumultuous history. Revealing the true face of t ...Show more
Guests of the AyatollahThe Iran Hostage Crisis: the First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A national best seller, Mark Bowden's Guests of the Ayatollah was published in hardcover just as the United States and Iran faced off over nuclear weapons. As this dangerous conflict deepens, Bowden's extraordinary narrative of the Iran Hostage Crisis, at the root of today's problems, has become more re ...Show more
Rise of Isis by Jay Sekulow
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISISJay Sekulow, one of America's most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions. Recently, the w ...Show more