Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East by James Barr
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; Francois Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge. The deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the Entente Co ...Show more
No Mission is Impossible by Michael/Mishal, Nissim Bar-Zohar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
The 30 boldest missions of the Israeli Special Forces since the inception of Israel. No Mission is Impossible is an episodic treatment of the greatest missions of the Israeli Special Forces, characterized by its lead piece, an intriguing story of the rescue of 200 hijacked airline passengers at Entebbe, ...Show more
The Devil is a Black Dog: Stories from the Middle East and Beyond by Sandor Jaszberenyi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
'I don't regret anything, really. I never wanted to live a sensible life ...I didn't want a sensible death either.' War-torn Africa, a Middle East in crisis, and post-Soviet Eastern Europe form the backdrop to the stories told in The Devil Is a Black Dog - stories based on the extraordinary experiences ...Show more
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