August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United Stat ...Show more
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City by Andrew Lawler
$55.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A sweeping history of the hidden world below the Holy City-a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval "These untold stories of archeological digs near and under Jerusalem's sacred sites convey all the colorful and violent and contentious history of the Israeli-Palestinian ...Show more
Islamic Empires by Justin Marozzi
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield and triumphant ...Show more
Egyptologists Notebooks by CHRIS. NAUNTON
$65.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
For centuries the beguiling ancient ruins of Egypt have provided an endless source of fascination for explorers, antiquarians, treasure hunters and archaeologists. All, from the very earliest travellers, were entranced by the beauty and majesty of the landscape: the remains of tombs cut into the natural ...Show more
Enemies and Neighbours - Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The Times A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewis ...Show more
Arabs - A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
$30.95 AUD
Category: Middle East
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstoneThis kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language an ...Show more
Jerusalem: The Biography A History of the Middle East by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$27.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world ...Show more
Iran - A Modern History by Abbas Amanat
$47.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A professor of history and international studies at Yale University presents a masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009.
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman
$27.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping investigation of Israel's assassination policy' Sunday Times 'Remarkable' Observer 'Riveting' Daily Mail 'Compelling' John le Carré Winner of 2018 National Jewish Book Award From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, the instinct to take every measure to ...Show more
The Ottoman Endgame- War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin
$28.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, the book concludes with the establishm ...Show more
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die -- from starvation, or disease, or even execution.In Order to Live is the ...Show more
AlUla: Wonder of Arabia - A Crossroads of Civilisations by Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani (Text by); Laïla Nehmé (Text by)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A crossroads of civilisations. Located at the crossroads of continents, AlUla has been a fantastic meeting point for civilizations who left behind an abundant heritage. For centuries, its oasis has been a crossing point for caravans on the Incense trade route, which connected Asia, Africa and Europe, t ...Show more