My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari SHAVIT
$45.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today. Not since Thomas Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised ...Show more
Israel: - A History by Anita Shapira; Anthony Berris (translator)
$35.00 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
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
From William Dalrymple--award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer--a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.With access to newly d ...Show more
Destiny Disrupted - A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim ANSARY
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years. In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mo ...Show more
Cairo in the War: 1939-45 by Artemis Cooper
$23.00 AUD
$30.00 (23% off)
Category: Middle East
For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines. For countless refugees, it was a sto ...Show more
Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian by Bernard Lewis
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
After 9/11, people who had never given much thought to the politics of the Middle East found themselves wondering why there was such rage brewing in the region. Many of them turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation. The world's pre-eminent historian of the Middle East, Lewis was among the first to ide ...Show more
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan - SIGNED by William Dalrymple
$49.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced ...Show more
The Arab Uprisings: The People Want the Fall of the Regime by Jeremy Bowen
$20.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Jeremy Bowen has been the BBC's Middle East correspondent for twelve years and has been on the ground for them as the recent revolutions have swept through the region. Realising this as a game-changing moment in the history of the Middle East, The Arab Uprisings captures the thoughts and feelings of the ...Show more
Red Nile: The Story of the World's Greatest River by Robert Twigger
$50.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Not long ago, in a small rubber boat more suited to a beach than the Nile, I floated downstream for ten kilometres, from my suburb to the city centre. I passed an island where, according to legend, Moses was left in his basket; a few kilometres farther downstream was the spot where Joseph and Mary land ...Show more
Kingmakers: The Making of the Modern Middle East by Karl Meyer
$34.95 AUD
Category: Middle East
Tracing today's troubles back to the imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States, "Kingmakers" is the story of how the Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry S ...Show more
Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325 by Geza Vermes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Geza Vermes, the author of "The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls" and acknowledged expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a religion. The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's ...Show more
Return of a King : The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple. In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passe ...Show more