‎Middle east‎

‎DENECHEAU J. - GIRAULT J. - MAILLARD J. et B. . .‎

‎La M?diterran?e arabe et le Proche-Orient au XXe si?cle.‎

‎Broch?. 119 pages.‎

‎DEONNA LAURENCE.‎

‎La guerra a due voci. La tragedia del quotidiano raccontata dalle donne arabe e israeliane.‎

‎In 8°, cop. edit. ill. con ali, pp. 222,(2), con 1 cartina e 33 ill. f.t. b.n., coll. "Fatti, testimonianze, reportages. 5"; ottimo es.‎

‎DER NERSESSIAN (Sirarpie)‎

‎Armenia and the Byzantine Empire. A brief study of armenian art and civilization. Preface by H. Gregoire.‎

‎Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1945. In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile verte, titre argenté au dos, XXI-148 pp., 32 pl. en noir, 1 carte à pleine page, bibliogr., chronol., index.‎

‎Bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 556795

‎Dershowitz Alan‎

‎The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved‎

‎USA: John Wiley & Sons 2005. Book. Fine. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Corner of rear cover creased. 246pp. John Wiley & Sons Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 033985 ISBN : 047004585X 9780470045855

‎DESTREMEAU Blandine, DEBOULET Agnès, IRETON François & al.‎

‎Dynamiques de la pauvreté en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient‎

‎Paris, Karthala / Tours, Urbama, 2004, 16 x 24, 520 pages sous couverture illustrée.‎

‎Etat d'usage. Dos plissé; soulignages.‎

Bookseller reference : AFRIQUE66620921

‎DESCHAMPS, Paul‎

‎Terre Sainte Romane‎

‎Zodiaque, coll. « La nuit des temps » 1964 In-8 relié 22,4 cm sur 17;4. 323 pages. Bon état d’occasion.‎

‎Tampon BH en page de titre Bon état d’occasion‎

Bookseller reference : 137117

‎Dessouki Sami H.‎

‎Suez Canal Changing World 1956 - 2000‎

‎London: Heinemann 1982. Book. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Authors. Signed First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Signed dedication by author on ffep. Heinemann Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 030991 ISBN : 043418750X 9780434187508

‎Devlin John F‎

‎Syria: Modern State in an Ancient Land‎

‎Boulder CO: Westview Press 1983. Photos. Map. Bibliography. Index. Dust jacket. xii 140 pages. 23.5 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Fine/Fine. ISBN: 0-86531-185-4 . Catalogs: SYRIA. Boulder CO: Westview Press, (1983) hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 7201 ISBN : 0865311854 9780865311855

‎Diamond Larry‎

‎Squandered Victory: The American Occupation And Bungled Effort To Bring Democracy To Iraq‎

‎Westminister Maryland U.S.A.: Times Books 2005. 369pp/map. In late 2003 Stanford University professor and democracy expert Larry Diamond was personally asked by his former colleague Condoleezza Rice to serve as an advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq a position he accepted with equal parts "hesitation and conviction." He opposed the initial invasion of Iraq but "supported building the peace" and felt the U.S. had a moral imperative to reconstruct Iraq as a democratic and prosperous nation. Before going to Iraq he had serious doubts about whether the U.S. could actually do this--an opinion that was solidified after spending three months working with the CPA. Squandered Victory is his insider's examination of what went wrong in Iraq after the initial invasion. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Times Books hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 006323 ISBN : 0805078681 9780805078688

‎Dickey Christopher‎

‎Expats‎

‎The Atlantic Monthly Press New York 1990 ISBN# 0-87113-337-7 First Edition vg/vg Travel in Arabia from Tripoli to Teheran. Very slight rubbing on Dj face. F. Hardcover. The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 1990 ISBN# 0-87113-337-7 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 593 ISBN : 0871133377 9780871133373

‎Dickey Christopher‎

‎Expats: Travels in Arabia from Tripoli to Teheran‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press 1990. 1st ptg. Larger book shiny purple cloth spine dark rose boards light blue lettering very fine on spine colorful bookplate on first front end paper ink note at top reverse of second front end paper. DJ price-clipped glossy color photo from inside of car on crowded Middle Eastern street on front and spine small b/w photo of Dickey at top back praise for "With the Contras" on green back from Joan Didion Washington Post Book World New York Times and others. DJ has micronick at spine bottom edge 1/4" tear with creases at bottom back edge microtear at top back tip. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book. 1st Ptg. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Very Good. Atlantic Monthly Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 35156 ISBN : 0871133377 9780871133373

‎Dickson, Violet.‎

‎Forty Years in Kuwait. London, Allen & Unwin, 1971.‎

‎With original dustjacket in excellent condition. First edition, first printing. Violet was the wife of H. R. P. Dickson, author of 'The Arab of the Desert' and 'Kuwait and her Neighbours'.‎

‎DIDIER (Charles);‎

‎Séjour chez le grand-chérif de La MEKKE.‎

‎Hachette et Cie Paris 1857 1 vol. In-12 de VII 310 pp. 1 f.n.ch., demi-veau de l'époque, dos lisse fileté.‎

‎Edition originale rare de ce voyage en Arabie (Numa Broc : Asie, p. 145). Bel exemplaire.‎

Bookseller reference : 14815

‎DIEHL (Charles)‎

‎L'AFRIQUE BYZANTINE. Histoire de la domination byzantine en Afrique (533-709)‎

‎Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1896 Grand in-8 broché, 2 [ff.] n.ch., XIV p., 1 f. bl., 644 pp, XI planches (la plupart reproduisant des photographies) et 2 cartes lithographiées en couleurs h.t., figures dans le texte. (Description de l'Afrique du Nord, entreprise par ordre du M. le Ministre de l'instruction publique et des Beaux-Arts).‎

‎Édition originale. Très rare ouvrage bien illustré, notamment de reproductions en héliogravure de photographies. Maître incontesté des études byzantines en France, Ch. Diehl tînt une place éminente à l’Université et occupa avec éclat pendant 35 ans la chaire d’histoire byzantine créée pour lui à la Sorbonne. Ce grand érudit, qui était aussi un bon écrivain, se soucia en outre de mettre à la portée d’un large public le fruit de ses recherches. Dos bruni, les plats simplement défraîchis, mouillure sur la pl. en frontispice de la citadelle d'Haida, se prolongeant sur le titre, la mouillure épargne le corps du livre qui est très propre, on la retrouve dans la marge inf. des tous derniers ff. et le contreplat du second plat., un peu de jeu dans les coutures d'un cahier en fin de vol. ex. restant correct. - Frais de port : -France 8,45 € -U.E. 13 € -Monde (z B : 23 €) (z C : 43 €)‎

Bookseller reference : 569903

‎Dieckhoff Alain‎

‎Le conflit israélo-arabe‎

‎Armand Colin 2011 12 6x1 6x18 2cm. 2011. Broché.‎

‎Bon état‎

Bookseller reference : 500147208

‎Dietmar Rothermund‎

‎Mahatma Gandhi -‎

‎Dietmar Rothermund Publishing - 1992. Hardcover/pub.1992/Gd. condition/139 pages - A comprehensive biography about Mahatma Gandhi. AN830345. Hard Cover. Good. Dietmar Rothermund Publishing - Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 30345

‎Dieu, Ludovicus de (editor).‎

‎Gêlyânâ dè Yuhannân quddîsâ id est, Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis, ex manuscripto exemplari è bibliotheca ... Josephi Scaligeri ... edita charactere Syro, & Ebraeo, cum versione latina, & notis [...]. Leiden, Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevier, 1627.‎

‎4to (20.5 x 15.5 cm). [20], 211, [1] pp. With the title in red and black in an ornamental, architectural woodcut frame with a palm tree at the head, and woodcut palm tree device above the colophon (both acquired from Erpenius), a decorated woodcut initial, a woodcut factotum and factotums and decorative bands built up from cast fleurons. Set in serto Syriac, meruba Hebrew, Greek and roman types, with incidental estrangela Syriac and italic. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 velum tapes laced through the joints, with a hollow back, red edges. The first edition of any early text of the Book of Revelations in the ancient Syriac language, a book that had been lacking in the manuscripts followed by the earlier Syriac New Testaments. It is also the first book the Elzeviers printed with Syriac or any other "oriental" type, their earlier forays into printing with non-Latin types having been limited to Greek and Hebrew. The main text is set in two columns, with the Syriac text set in Syriac type on the outside and the Syriac text set in Hebrew type on the inside, an aid to scholars less familiar with the Syriac script. Two columns in smaller type at the foot provide the original Greek text and a literal Latin translation of the Syriac. The whole is well printed and laid out, showing why the Elzeviers were quickly gaining a reputation as the leading scholarly printers and publishers. Thomas Erpenius made Leiden University the leading centre for the study of oriental languages when appointed professor of oriental languages in 1613. He set up his own printing office, acquiring or commissioning types for Arabic, Syriac, Samaritan and Ethiopic, and inaugurating it with his edition of Lockman's fables in Arabic (1615). His death from the plague at age forty cut his work short in 1624. Ludovicus de Dieu (1590-1642), Regent of the Walloon College associated with the University, had studied under Erpenius and his successor in Arabic studies Jacob Golius, but for Syriac he became Erpenius's spiritual successor. The present book was nearly his first publication. Although Syriac New Testaments had been published earlier, no source had been found for the Syriac text of the Book of Revelation, which was lacking in the standard "Peshitta" Bible, a Syriac Old and New Testament whose text was probably established in the 4th century. In his 1599 Polyglot, Elias Hutter therefore filled the gap with his own new translation, but De Dieu published the present text based on a manuscript from the library of the great orientalist Joseph Scaliger, apparently a copy made in Rome ca. 1580 of an ancient manuscript of the Syriac text established by the Persian Philoxenus, Bishop of Mabbug, in Mesopotamia in 508 and corrected by the Palestinian monk Thomas of Harkel near Alexandria in 616. For that reason, Darlow & Moule, Smitskamp and others call the present book the "editio princeps". Erpenius's widow briefly continued her husband's printing office, completing the Syriac psalter that he had begun, but it was published jointly by the Elzeviers and Johannes Maire, and on 9 October 1625 the Elzeviers bought her printing office and took over most of its materials and workmen. At the same time they began to acquire and commission new printing materials, greatly expanding the printing office they had added to their publishing house in 1617. This made the period 1625 to 1640 the press's golden age. Erpenius had commissioned the woodcut of the present title-page for his Arabic Historia Josephi in 1517 and most of the types and fleurons came from him as well. Plantin commissioned the serto and estrangela Syriac types from Robert Granjon for volume 5 (1571) of his Polyglot Bible (Erpenius added and revised a few characters in the serto) and Daniel Bomberg commissioned the Hebrew type for his press in Venice, where he used it in 1517. The lovely arabesque initial V with a face in the centre, however, belongs to a series cut exclusively for the Elzeviers and used here nearly for the first time. The book also shows them beginning to supplement their 16th-century French types (Garamont romans and Granjon italics) with 17th-century types cut in the Dutch Republic. The New Testament was originally written in Greek, the language of the Christian Church and Christian scholars in the first centuries of the Christian era, and a lingua franca among the diverse groups living in the Middle East at that time. But it relates stories that would have first been told (and in some cases probably also written down) in Aramaic, the vernacular language of Palestine in Jesus's time. It also presents Jesus's words in Greek translation, while he would have spoken them in Aramaic. While no early New Testament survives in Palestinian Aramaic, the Greek was translated into Syriac, probably already in the second century, and surviving manuscripts may date back to the fifth century. Syriac, another dialect of Aramaic, served as the vernacular language of much of the Middle East (it has nothing to do with today's Syria, where the native language is Arabic). The Syriac text therefore provides valuable clues to the Aramaic sources of the New Testament. The Peshitta Bible remains the standard text among some Christian groups. Debates continue as to how much of the "original" Aramaic can be found in the surviving Syriac versions. - The watermark in the endpapers (a simple bend) does not closely match any found in the literature, but the nearest is Heawood 129, used in Amsterdam in 1646. In fine condition, with only an occasional minor spot and at the edge of the last few leaves some tiny (0.2 mm!) worm holes, and with large margins (the leaves are a couple millimetres taller than those noted by Berghman and Rahir). The binding is very slightly rubbed but still very good. A fine copy of an important work of biblical scholarship and a showpiece of the Elzevier's press at the beginning of its golden age. Berghman, Cat. Raisonné 48; Copinger 1310; Darlow & Moule 8962; Rahir 230; Smitskamp, Phil. orientalia 303; STCN (9 copies); Willems 269; www.bibliasacra.nl, 1627.Rev.poly.BE.a.; for the types: J.F. Coakley, Typography of Syriac W3B & S3.‎

‎Dilip Hiro‎

‎Holy Wars -‎

‎Routledge Press - 1989. PB/pub. 1989/Gd. condition/332 pages - The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism. KN75293z. Soft Cover. Good. Routledge Press - Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 5293z ISBN : 0415902088 9780415902083

‎Dinesh D'Souza‎

‎The Enemy At Home -‎

‎Doubleday Publishing - 2007. Hardcover/Gd. condition/331 pages - The cultural left and its responsibility for 9/11 is discussed in this text. K1795HR9. Hard Cover. Good. Doubleday Publishing - Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : K1795

‎Dionysius Periegetes.‎

‎De situ orbis habitabilis. (Venice, Franz Renner, 1478).‎

‎Small 4to (190 x 140 mm). (36) ff. With the first four lines printed in red and 9 white on black decorated woodcut initials (1 series), plus 1 repeat. Set in roman type, 26 lines to a page, with two words in Greek. Modern blind-tooled calf. A famous description of the antique world, originally written in Greek verse around the beginning of the second century AD by Dionysios Periegetes, also known as Dionysius of Alexandria, including early mentions of China and Arabia. The poem exerted a great influence during the Middle ages and remained popular well into the Renaissance. One of its main appeals are the literary descriptions of faraway countries, which leave more space for imagination than the more scientific geographical descriptions like those of Mela and Solinus. - It was translated into Latin prose by the Veronese humanist Antonio da Beccaria and first published a year earlier by Erhard Ratdolt, the former partner of Franz Renner, two German printers active in Venice. The poem had first appeared in print in a free verse translation in Priscian's Opera in 1470. - "Until the thirteenth century, Asia beyond India was practically unknown in Europe; only vague references to the Serica or Sinica of the Graeco-Romans helped keep alive a sketchy knowledge of China's existence". Mentions here in Dionysius's text referring to "Thina" hark back to the mentions in the Periplus of the 1st century AD, which were the earliest surviving accounts in European literature (Löwendahl). - Dionysius lived in Pharos, an Alexandrian neighbourhood, at the time of Hadrian (117-138). Further information in the poem suggests a date of composition before 130. At that period, geography was not deemed an important component of the school curriculum but rather an ancillary subject to rhetoric. Dionysius composed his poem with these didactic ramifications in mind. In addition to imparting geographical knowledge, he wanted to acquaint the students with the great classical authors, notably Homer. He therefore composed his poem in hexameters, after Homer, and included many mythological place names, for instance from the journey of the Argonauts, but also the borders of the historical empire of the Seleucids. In this manner, the "Description of the inhabited world" became a guided tour through the world of antique geography. - Some minor waterstains in the margins of the second half of the volume, the first and last leaves reattached and some occasional foxing, otherwise in very good condition, washed. Goff D-254. IDL 1556. ISTC id00254000. Proctor 4173. Cf. Löwendahl 1 (1477 ed.). Sarton, Introduction I, p. 258. Tozer, A history of ancient geography (1897), pp. 281-287.‎

‎Directeur: AHMAD RIKABI.‎

‎Journal officiel de la Republique Syrienne: Lois, decrets, reglements et debats parlementaires. Arrets de la Cour de Cassation, Circlaires et Instructions. Le numero Français et Arabe: Damas, le 31 Decembre - 30 Juin 1933.; No: 12-24.‎

‎Very Good French In contemporary 1/4 leather bdg. Folio. (32 x 22 cm). In French and Arabic. All contents with supplements, some foldings. Issues: No: 25 (No info).; No: 24 - 15me Annee, le 31 Decembre 1933. (390-411 pp., 5 p., 11 p., 630-603 pp., 3 p.).; No: 23 - 15me Annee - le 15 Decembre 1933. (371-392 pp., 3 p., 602-677 pp., 6 p.).; No: 22 - 15me Annee - le 30 Novembre 1933. (353-370 pp., 5 p., 9 p., 12 p., 576-549 pp., 3 p.).; No: 21 - 15me Annee - le 15 Novembre 1933. (340-354 pp., 5 p., 12 p., 548-525 pp., 4 p.).; No: 20 - 15 me Annee - le 31 Octobre 1933.; No: 19 - 15me Annee - le 15 Octobre 1933.; No: 18 - 15me Annee - le 30 Septembre 1933.; No: 17 - 15me Annee - le 15 Septembre 1933.; No: 16 - 15me Annee 31 Août 1933.; No: 15 - 15me Annee - 15 Août 1933.; No: 14 - 15me Annee - le 31 Juillet 1933.; No: 13 - 15me Annee - le 15 Juillet 1933.; No: 12 - 15me Annee - le 30 Juin 1933 (Just French section). Stamped by 'Caimacamliq' of Antioche when 'Hatay' still was in Syrian borders.‎

‎Dishon Daniel editor‎

‎Middle East Record Volume Three 1967‎

‎Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press 1971. Maps. Index. Dust jacket has some edge wear. xxix 637 pages. 26.1 cm. Hardcover. Condition Book/Dj: Very Good/Good. . Catalogs: MIDDLE EAST. Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press, 1971 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 7407

‎DIYARBAKIR BÜYÜKSEHIR BELEDIYESI.‎

‎Haçli Seferlerinin 900üncü Yildönümünde Uluslararasi Selahaddin-i Eyyubi Sempozyumu, 23-24 Kasim 1996, Diyarbakir.‎

‎Fine English Paperback., Fine., 23 x 16 cm, , 285 p. "Haçli Seferlerinin 900üncü yildönümünde Uluslararasi Selahaddin-i Eyyubi Sempozyumu 23 - 24 Kasim 1996 Diyarbakir, Diyarbakir Büyüksehir Belediyesi, 1997"‎

‎Dodge Toby‎

‎Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation-Building and a History Denied‎

‎Irvington New York U.S.A.: Columbia Univ Pr 2003. 288pp/map. History of the formation of modern Iraq Toby Dodge uncovers numerous troubling parallels between the policies of a declining British empire and those of the American government which together form a cautionary tale. Previous owner name on ffep. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Columbia Univ Pr Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 007869 ISBN : 0231131666 9780231131667

‎Dodi Luigi‎

‎Dell'antica urbanistica romana nel Medio Oriente Politecnico di Milano, Istituto di Urbanistica della Facolt? di Architettura‎

‎Studio pubblicato con i contributi del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Riassunto in 4 lingue: italiano, francese, inglese e tedesco - 1 24x17 cm., in brossura, pp. 49 (2), 38 illustrazioni - i disegni di mappe, superfici ecc. nel testo, le illustrazioni in bianco nero su tavole in carta patinata, fuori testo, prima edizione, in italiano, buone condizioni. "Sulla traccia dei rilevamenti compiuti sul posto, vengono passate in rassegna varie localit? del Libano, della Siria e della Giordania...‎