Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'Revelatory' Lindsey HilsumA timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979'What happened to us?'For decades, the question h ...Show more
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of Books The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This ...Show more
Pharaohs of the Sun - How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty by Guy de la Bedoyere
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
In 1922, a century ago, the most sensational archaeological discovery of all time was made. When Tutankhamun's tomb was found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the contents staggered the world and have done so ever since.Tutankhamun, so obscure he was almost forgotten after his rule, was one of the last k ...Show more
The Taliban at War: 2001 - 2021 by Antonio Giustozzi
$40.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement’s extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban’s external sources of support include foreign governments and non-state groups, both of which have affect ...Show more
The Spymaster of Baghdad - The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS by Margaret Coker
$23.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the Falcons- the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. Against the backdrop of the most brutal conflict of recent decades, we chart the spymaster's struggle to develop the unit, follow the fraught relationship of two of h ...Show more
Crooked Alleys: Deliverance and Despair in Iran by Soraya Lennie
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
By 2013, Iranians were suffocating, as though the streets had become narrower, the buildings taller, the dirty air thicker. In electing Hassan Rouhani, they chose a new, reformist leader, burying the days when a Holocaust-denying president had pushed Iran to the edge of economic collapse and conflict. B ...Show more
Iran - Five Millennia of Art and Culture by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
$90.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A beautifully illustrated journey in time across Iran's rich artistic history. Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture presents 360 objects from the time of the first advanced civilizations during the third millennium BCE until the end of the Safavid Empire in the early eighteenth century. Amid sear ...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
Conquering Jerusalem by Stephen Dando-Collins
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS PROVIDES UNPARALLELED NEW INSIGHT INTO THE FIRST JEWISH REVOLT Dando-Collins details the conflict from both sides of the 7-year campaign. His examination of the revolt draws upon numerous archaeological and forensic discoveries made in recent yea ...Show more
The Turkish Embassy Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
In 1716 Mary Montagu traveled across Europe to take up residence in Istanbul as the wife of the British ambassador. Her letters remain as fresh as the day they were penned: enchanted by her discoveries of the life of Turkish women behind the veil, by Arabic poetry and by contemporary medical practices - ...Show more
The Fall of Heaven - The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper
$43.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration. In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most ...Show more
Egyptian Mythology - A Traveler's Guide from Aswan to Alexandria by Garry J. Shaw
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Garry J. Shaw guides us on an entertaining and inventive tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris and their enemies and allies, stories of vengeance, tragedy and fantastic metamorphoses. This traveller's guide to ...Show more