Syria Descent Into the Abyss by Robert Fisk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
This remarkable anthology chronicles more than three years of spiralling violence and despair in Syria: atrocity heaped upon atrocity, misery upon misery, and all - so far - to no avail. No faction is without blood on its hands; no crime, from torture to poison gas, has been deemed taboo. The dead are t ...Show more
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason by Christopher de Bellaigue
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Selected as a book of the year 2017 by the Times Literary Supplement and the Sunday Times ('At a time when the gulf between Islam and the West yawns distressingly wide, De Bellaigue's book is a welcome and surprising corrective' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times) ...Show more
Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East by Fawaz A. A. Gerges
$65.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
How the conflict between political Islamists and secular nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle East In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president--Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Bro ...Show more
The Islamic Jesus by Mustafa Akyol
$40.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
The Islamic Jesus reveals startling new truths about Islam in the context of the first Muslims and the early origins of Christianity. Muslims and the first Christians--the Jewish followers of Jesus--saw Jesus as not divine but rather as a prophet and human Messiah and that salvation comes from faith and ...Show more
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land by Amos Oz
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Concise, evocative... Dear Zealotsis not just a brilliantbook of thoughts and ideas - it is a depiction of the struggle of one man who, for decades, has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness' David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker Int ...Show more
Bethlehem - Biography of a Town by Nicholas Blincoe
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
" Bethlehem] brings within reach 11,000 years of history, centering on the beloved town's unique place in the world. Blincoe's love of Bethlehem is compelling, even as he does not shy away from the complexities of its chronicle." --President Jimmy Carter Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth th ...Show more
Lost Copy:The Endless Wars by John Martinkus
$39.95 AUD
Category: Middle East
“We, his friends, never knew if it was suicide or not but the reality was Tor [Norwegian journalist Torgeir Norling], who had shared so many dangers, hardships and fear, with us was gone. Tor was a journalist’s journalist. I had covered East Timor with him in the late nineties. Like me he had gone on t ...Show more
A History of Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
$60.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
This updated edition analyses the challenges, both internal and external, facing Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century. Two new chapters discuss the political, economic and social developments in the aftermath of 9/11, painting a vivid picture of a country shocked by terrorism and condemned by the in ...Show more
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--And Future by Karen Elliott House
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of "The" "Wall Street Journal "Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of life inside this shrouded kingdom. Through anecdotes, observation, analysis, and extensive interviews ...Show more
The Netanyahu Years by Ben Caspit, Ben Caspit translated by Ora Cummings
$44.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office. Caspit covers a wide swa ...Show more
Archaeology The Whole Story by Nadia Durrani
$50.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Global in perspective and covering over four million years of history, this accessible volume provides a chronological account of both the development of the human race and the order in which modern societies have made discoveries about their ancient past. Beginning deep in prehistory, it takes in all t ...Show more
The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid by Will Bardenwerper
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
The Prisoner in His Palace is an evocative and thought-provoking account of how the lives of twelve young American soldiers deployed to Iraq are upended when they're asked to guard the most 'high-value detainee' of all, the notorious dictator Saddam Hussein. What the self-dubbed 'Super Twelve' experienc ...Show more