Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A "fascinating and very moving" (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world--Israel.Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles awa ...Show more
Arabs and Israelis - Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East by Abdel Monem Said Aly; Shai Feldman; Khalil Shikaki
$90.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Lasting over 120 years, the Arab-Israeli conflict involves divergent narratives about history, national identities, land ownership, injustices and victimhood. Domestic forces and actors as well as international and regional dynamics have ensured the conflict's durability. A distinguished team of authors ...Show more
Hamas: The Islamic resistance movement by Beverley Milton-Edwards
$52.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, "Hamas: the Islamic Resistance Movement" now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East. How did Hamas grow to be so powerful? Who supports it? What is its future? This essential insight into Hamas answer ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$55.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'This brilliant and heartbreaking book is a masterpiece. It reads like a novel, yet is all sadly true. I finished it in tears' - James Rebanks. A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years ...Show more
Bibi - The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A deeply reported biography of the controversial Israeli prime minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel today without first understanding the man who leads itFor many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment, even a precursor to Donald Trump. But he continues t ...Show more
Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty by Guy de la Bedoyere
$27.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'An impressive amalgamation of scholarly research with popular history' The Times'An evocative account of an era of epic riches and ruthlessness' History Revealed'De la Bedoyere has not just an archaeologist's eye for accuracy but also a broadcaster's nose for a colourful story ...Show more
A Stranger in Your Own City - Travels in the Middle East's Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
$60.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. "An essential insider account of the unravelling of Iraq...Driven by his intimate knowledge and deep personal stakes, Abdul-Ahad...offers an overdue reckoning with a broken history."-- ...Show more
Where The Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the border.He couldn't have known then what Israel would come to mean to him, or to foresee the future occupation of his home in Palestine. Later, as a young l ...Show more
Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East by Raja Shehadeh
$23.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
At a time when the Middle East dominates media headlines more than ever - and for reasons that become ever more heartbreaking - Shifting Sands brings together fifteen impassioned and informed voices to talk about a region with unlimited potential, and yet which can feel, as one writer puts it, 'as thoug ...Show more
Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home by Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Middle East
How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a stateless and transitory Palestine?
When the Bulbul Stopped Singing: Life in Palestine During an Israeli Siege by Shehadeh, Raja
$27.00 AUD
Category: Middle East | Series: Truth to Power Ser.
Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to keep her composure for the sake of their frightened childred, ages four and six. This is an account of what it is like to be under seige- the terror, the frustra ...Show more
Where the Line is Drawn by Raja Shehadeh
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the border. Impossible then to know what Israel would come to mean to him, or to foresee the future occupation of his home in Palestine. Later, as a young lawy ...Show more