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
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
$45.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
The final work of Robert Fisk, following on from the authoritative and highly acclaimed The Great War for Civilisation, which charted his 30-year career as a reporter in the war zones of the Middle East. An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitne ...Show more
Battleground - The Struggle for the New Middle East by Christopher Phillips
$40.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and even har ...Show more
Palestinians and Israelis: A Short History of Conflict by MICHAEL SCOTT-BAUMANN
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Newly updated, this accessible history explores the origins and development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What are the origins of the Israeli Palestinian conflict? Why has it proved so intractable, and what are the implications of escalating tensions for both the Middle East and the world? The co ...Show more
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt by Asne Seierstad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is ...Show more
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
$34.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab people from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime ...Show more
Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
$40.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 "[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves togethe ...Show more
After Zionism : One State for Israel and Palestine by Antony Loewenstein
$37.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
What Iranians Want by Arash Azizi
$45.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is pronounced dead. By Sunday, women have taken to the streets across Iran, se ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
$37.00 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. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
In the Streets of Tehran - Woman, Life, Freedom by Nila; Poupeh Missaghi
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
INSIDE IRAN'S NEW REVOLUTION I've stopped pulling up my scarf to cover my hair when I pass by the guards. I know that nothing can stop one of them from raising his gun and targeting me. But this is for the greater good. Following the death of Mahsa-Jina Amini in September 2022, the angry cries of th ...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