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Rashid Ahmed
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
U.S.A: Penguin Books 2002. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked gently used worn book light wear around cover tight and square binding. Pages toned clean no markings no creases. Ahmed Rashid the author of "Taliban" is an investigative journalist who here analyzes five Central Asian Republics - KAZAKHSTAN KRYGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN - where religious repression political corruption and extreme poverty have created a fertile climate for militant Islam. Based on research and interviews Rashid explains the roots of fundamental rage in Central Asia describes the goals and activities of militant organizations and suggests ways of neutralizing the threat and bringing stability to this region. 281 pages Indexed with Notes and Glossary. 5 x 8 inches. 2002 Penguin Books USA Penguin Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 022692 ISBN : 0142002607 9780142002605
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STEWART RORY
The Places in Between
U.S.A: Harcourt 2006. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan in 2002. By day he passed through mountains with 9 feet of snow hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban and communities thriving in the remains of medieval civilizations. This is a story of his journey the people he met and their stories--heroes and rogues tribal elders and teen-agers soldiers Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers. He makes tangible the forces of tradition ideology and allegiance and shapes their lives. 297 pages. 5.4 x 8 inches. 2006 Harcourt Orlando Florida USA Harcourt paperback
Bookseller reference : 022718 ISBN : 0156031566 9780156031561
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Wright Robin
Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam
U.S.A: Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Updated with new chapters. Important book for all those who want to understand the violence of the Middle East. Red and black pictorial wraps are clean and unmarked trace wear to lower front corner and lower edge. Soundly bound square. Pages edges and pages clean free from any markings no creases. 330 pages with Glossary Notes and Index. 6.2 x 9.25 inches. 2001 Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster New York New York USA Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster paperback
Bookseller reference : 022332 ISBN : 0743233425 9780743233422
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Makiya Kanan
Cruelty and Silence: War Tyranny Uprising in the Arab World
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. By the author of "Republic of Fear" written under the pseudonym of Samir al-Khalil which first sounded the alarm about the cruelty and totalitarian nature of Saddam Hussain's regime. In "Cruelty and Silence" written under his own name Makiya confronts the rhetoric of Arab and pro-Arab intellectuals with the realities of political cruelty in the Middle East. In his exploration of these cruelties he lays out the nationalist mythologies that underpin them. He calls for a new politics in the Arab world a politics that puts absolute respect for human life and a revulsion of cruelty above all else. Fine Binding of black half cloth with silver titles gray boards spotless tight & solid square with sharp corners. Internals as new also. Black glossy jacket with red and blue titles with photograph by Makiya of Arab children. 367 pages with Notes and Index. 9.5 x 6.4 inches. W W Norton & Co Inc New York 1993. W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 022184 ISBN : 039303108X 9780393031089
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Lewis Bernard
What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
USA: Harper Perennial 2003. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Bright clean unmarked pictorial wrappers faint wear to upper front corner sound and tight binding square. Internals as new. A concise study of the Muslim world's responses to the West and of its own long sad decline. Bernard Lewis a renowned authority in Islamic affairs examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sense of how it had been overtaken overshadowed and dominated by the West.--after centuries of being in the forefront of human achievement economically culturally militarily. This is a portrait of a culture in turmoil. 186 pages with Notes and Index. 8 x 5.25 inches. Harper Perennial New York 2003. Harper Perennial paperback
Bookseller reference : 022113 ISBN : 0060516054 9780060516055
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Bergen Peter L
Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Updated version with new chapters. Bright and clean wrappers slight wear to extremities soundly bound and square. A couple of pages dog-eared and a few words underlined otherwise clean no other markings lightly toned pages. 303 pages with Notes and Index. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster New York 2002. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster paperback
Bookseller reference : 022049 ISBN : 0743234952 9780743234955
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Hersh Seymour
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
New York: Harper Perennial 2005. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked cover trace wear to extremities. Soundly bound square. Pages clean no markings of any kind pages lightly toned. Seymour Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize for his breaking news of the massacre at My Lai; his expose on Saudi corruption nuclear black marketeers and other scandals have established his credentials as an investigative reporter. In Chain of Command he looks behind the "war on terror" and into the causes that led the US into Iraq. 404 pages with index. 8 x 5.25 inches. Harper Perennial New York 2005. Harper Perennial paperback
Bookseller reference : 021342 ISBN : 0060955376 9780060955373
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Gannon Kathy
I Is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years Inside Afghanistan
U.S.A: PublicAffairs 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Former owner name on endpaper otherwise book is as new in binding of brown and deep orange paper-wrapped boards solid square with sharp corners. Pages also as new. Jacket is clean and unmarked not price-clipped upper edge slightly ruffled. Kathy Gannon reports on the roots of terrorism in the Middle East. As a Western journalist in Afghanistan she knew that country under the Taliban knows its beleaguered people its ruthless leaders and speaks with authority about Afghanistan's heartbreaking history. 186 pages with index. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Public Affairs USA 2005. PublicAffairs hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021406 ISBN : 1586483129 9781586483128
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Hamza Khidhir with Jeff Stein
Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapon Agenda
New York: Scribner 2000. First Edition Paperback. Hardcover. Good/Good. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Fine condition except for minimal neat library markings. Clean solidly bound otherwise unmarked no creasing. Pages very clean and free from any markings. The Iraqi scientist who designed Baghdad's nuclear bomb tells how he did it in secret with the cynical help of the U. S. French German and british suppliers and experts and kept it hidden from the U.N. inspectors after the Gulf War. 352 pages w/index. 9.6 x 6.5 inches. Scribner New York 2000. Scribner hardcover
Bookseller reference : 020857 ISBN : 0684873869 9780684873862
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LEWIS BERNARD
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Type: Hardback First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Handsome binding of brown half-cloth with gilt titles bright red cloth-wrapped boards in immaculate condition. Tight & solid square with sharp corners. Internals as new. A wealth of information in this collection of essays on Middle Eastern history culture politics and current events by Bernard Lewis hailed as the world's foremost Islamic scholar a man who politicians journalists historian and the general public have all turned to for insight into the Middle East. xiv 438 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Oxford University Press Oxford and New York 2004. Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 020745 ISBN : 0195173368 9780195173369
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Evans Mike
The Final Move Beyond Iraq: The Final Solution While the World Sleeps
Lake Mary Florida U.S.A: FrontLine/Strang Communications 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Rem Mk on page block top edge. Clean and bright cover with trace wear to extremities Tight glued binding. Former owner name on inside of front cover. Internals spotless no markings no creases. 348 pages with Notes and Index. 6 x 9 inches. Publisher: Frontline/Strang Communications Lake Mary Florida 2007. FrontLine/Strang Communications paperback
Bookseller reference : 020289 ISBN : 1599791889 9781599791883
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Bellaigue Christopher de
Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town
New York: Penguin Press 2010. First US Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Type: Hardback First American Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Clean unmarked tight & solid volume. Jacket unclipped. Christopher de Bellaigue journalist for the Economist in 2001 and based in Istanbul wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for the New York Review of Books and briefly mentioned the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915 and suggested it was best understood as a part of the struggles that were part of the end of the Ottoman empire. He had left Turkey for another assignment when he was besieged with letters about that article that led him to go back to Turkey and see if he got it all wrong--about that massacre. There he found the 'official version' of the event but went on to try to discover what really happened. Here is what he found in a place in which the centuries old conflict among Turks Armenians and Kurds was still very much alive and bringing to life the basic conflicts in the Middle East: between statehood and religion; imperial borders and ethnicity. A fascinating book. 270 pages with bibliography. 6.4 x 9.25 inches. Penguin Press New York 2010. Penguin Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 019909 ISBN : 1594202524 9781594202520
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Garrels Anne; with Letters By Vint Lawrence
Naked In Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen By NPR's Correspondent
USA: Picador USA 2004. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. With a New Introduction and Afterword that covers the first year of America's occupation in Iraq. Clean unmarked card cover no edgewear no creases tight glued binding. Internals also very clean and unmarked. Pages moderately toned. THE IRAQ WAR. 244 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Publisher: Picador New York 2004. Picador USA paperback
Bookseller reference : 018834 ISBN : 0312424191 9780312424190
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Anderson Jon Lee
The Fall of Baghdad
U.S.A: Penguin Press 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. The essential book on the invasion of Iraq from the perspective of the Iraquis themselves. Binding of navy half cloth with silver titles navy boards very clean and unmarked no edgeweat tight and solid. Few pale spots on bottom edge of text block. Prev owner bookplate on ffep. Internals in Fine Condition. 389 pages. 2004 Penguin Press USA Penguin Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018232 ISBN : 1594200343 9781594200342
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Lamb David
The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage
U.S.A: Vintage Books/Random House 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. xvi 333 pages with bibliography and index. White cover with red titles is clean and unmarked with trace wear to front corners. Tight glued binding square. . Pages completely clean with no markings lightly toned. A thoughtful close-up study of the Arab peoples based on firsthand observation and on knowledge of their history. Lamb deals with most of the issues that vex the Middle East today -- spread of religious extremism the politics of oil the changing image of Israel the nature of Arab terrorism with considered suggestions on the most effective measures for stamping it out. xvi 333 pages with bibliography and index. 8 x 5.25 inches. Vintage Books/Random House New York 1988. Vintage Books/Random House paperback
Bookseller reference : 017913 ISBN : 0394757580 9780394757582
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Goldberg Jeffrey
Prisoners : A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
New York: Alfred A Knopf/Random House 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. An unusual friendship developed between an American Jew who served as guard in the largest prison in Israel and his prisoner Rafiq a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices they began a dialogue that grew into a friendship. This is an account of life in that harsh desert prison--mean overcrowded and violent-and of that dialogue between the guard Jeffrey Goldberg and Rafiq. It is a dialog of their accusations explanations fears prejudices and aspirations. Jeffrey Goldber became an award-winning correspondent for The New Yorker and Rafiq became a graduate student in Washington DC where Goldberg was located. And their dialogue continued. Clean unmarked solid volume in brown half cloth with bold and bright gilt titles with gray boards; square with sharp corners. Internals As New. Black jacket with orange and gray titles is clean unclipped as new. 316 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Alfred A Knopf/Random House New York 2006. Alfred A Knopf/Random House hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017972 ISBN : 0375412344 9780375412349
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Khalidi Rashid
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints And America's Perilous Path In The MIddle East
Boston MA: Beacon Press 2004. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. His book provides the historical and cultural perspective so vital to understanding the situation and to finding a more effective and just foreign policy. Very clean solid attractive volume in binding of black half cloth w/gilt titles black paper-wrapped boards unmarked no edgewear square sharp corners. Book plate on endpaper else Fine. Clean bright jacket with original price intact no edgewear quarter inch circular whitish spot on upper corner. 223 pages with Chapter Notes and Index. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Beacon Press Boston MA 2004. Beacon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017799 ISBN : 0807002348 9780807002346
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Goodson Larry P
Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure Regional Politics and the Rise of the Taliban
U.S.A: Univ of Washington Press 2001. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Trade Paperback As New. Clean and bright cover with cover photograph: Afghan refugees in Iran holding posters of opposition leasder Ahmed Shah Masood 1999. Text block clean and free of any markings Tightly bound. xv 264 pages. Six Maps & Tables Appendix: Major Actors in Modern Afghan History Notes Glossary References Cited& Index. 6 x 9 inches. University of Washington Press Seallte WA 2001. Univ of Washington Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 017281 ISBN : 0295980508 9780295980508
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Lamb David
The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage
USA: Vintage Books/Random House 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. White cover with red titles is clean unmarked trace wear to front corners. Pages completely clean with no markings lightly toned. Gently used if at all. A thoughtful close-up study of the Arab peoples based on firsthand observation and on knowledge of their history. Lamb deals with most of the issues that vex the Middle East today -- spread of religious extremism the politics of oil the changing image of Israel the nature of Arab terrorism with considered suggestions on the most effective measures for stampingi t out. xvi 333 pages with bibliography and index. 8 x 5.25 inches. Vintage Books/Random House New York 1988. Vintage Books/Random House paperback
Bookseller reference : 017169 ISBN : 0394757580 9780394757582
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Junger Sebastian
Fire: With a New Essay on Afghanistan and a New Afterword By the Author
USA: Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition with a new essay on Afghanistan and a new Afterword by the author. Bright clean card cover with light edgewear. No soiling. Tight glued binding. Pages clean and without marks of any kind toned. This is a superb eyewitness report about the Taliban's defeat in Kabul. 250 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. Perennial/HarperCollins New York 2002. Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 016841 ISBN : 0060088613 9780060088613
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MANSFIELD PETER
The Arabs-New Edition
London England: Penguin Books 1985. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Third Edition 1985. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Peter Mansfield explores social political and historical aspects--from the pre-Islamic nomads of Arabia the life of Muhammad and the rise of Arab power that followed to the Western Colonial period the tragedy of Palestine and the modern Arab renaissance reinforced by the power of oil. To be read by anyone who wants to know about the Arab world and how they have become what they are today. Pictorial wrappers are clean with moderate wear to extremities with creased corners rubbed edges. Overstock mark on bottom edge. Soundly bound. Pages clean no marks moderately toned. 527 pages with Index. 5.2 x 7.8 inches. England Penguin Books 1985. Penguin Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 008335 ISBN : 0140225617 9780140225617
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STEWART RORY
The Places in Between
Orlando Florida USA: Harcourt 2006. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Trade Paperback As New. Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan in 2002. By day he passed through mountains with 9 feet of snow hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban and communities thriving in the remains of medieval civilizations. This is a story of his journey the people he met and their stories--heroes and rogues tribal elders and teen-agers soldiers Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers. He makes tangible the forces of tradition ideology and allegiance and shapes their lives. 297 pages. 5.4 x 8 inches. 2006 Harcourt Orlando Florida USA Harcourt paperback
Bookseller reference : 013799 ISBN : 0156031566 9780156031561
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Chafets Ze'Ev
Double Vision: How America's Press Distorts Our View of the Middle East
New York: William Morrow & Co 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Mylar jacket cover. Binding of copper half cloth silver titled with ivory boards; very clean and unmarked with slight bumping of lower corners. Interior is Fine--very clean and completely unmarked. Clean and bright unclipped jacket. not clipped. A book to help readers to understand the Middle East - and the news we get about it and the news we don't get. Many countries in the Middle East are off limits to reporters; we don't hear about the threats to journalists and the censorship they must practice. The author examines the distortion of many of America's prestigious newspapers and the subtle influences on the way we look at this part of the world. It names names in a stunning expose of journalistic self-censorship duplicity and failure by some of America's most famous news people. 349 pages with Chapter Notes and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Publisher: William Morrow & Co. New York 1985. William Morrow & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015229 ISBN : 0688039774 9780688039776
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Kunstel Marcia and Albright Joseph
Their Promised Land: Arab and Jew in History's Cauldron One Valley in the Jerusalem Hills
New York: Crown Publishing 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Remainder First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Remainder mark on bottom edge else Fine. 7 area maps. An authentic story of two families one Jewish and one Arab who lived for generations in the valley outside of Jerusalem and their lives before and during the rise of Zionism up to the 1948 war for Israel's independence. Genealogy charts for the Hamdan Family and the Levy Family on endpapers. Black half cloth gilt titled with blue cloth over boards very clean tight solid square no edgewear interior fine. 392 pages with Chapter Notes Bibliography and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Crown Publishing New York 1990. Crown Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015233 ISBN : 0517572311 9780517572313
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Prendergast John
The Road To India: Guide to the Overland Routes to the East
London UK: John Murray 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Type: Hard Back First Printing of this scarce title. Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Archival protective cover. Two page map of the area in the center of the book. Orange cloth gilt titled very clean and unmarked with a small bump to the rear bottom edge otherwise fine. Internals clean and unmarked. The author has over 40 years experience driving in the East including 8 return trips to India by road since 1960. The overland route he took was through Turkey Iran Afghanistan and Pakistan to India with much information on vehicles distances traveling times gas stations etc with plenty of anecdote and history exploration of handicrafts of an area landscape etc. This particular route may be a thing of the past for a while-doesn't sound like a likely trip today! But wonderful for the armchair traveler or for those optimistic about future trips! 206 pages. 6 x 8.75 inches. 1977 John Murray London UK John Murray hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015457
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Rubin Barry
Revolution Until Victory: The Politics and History of the Plo
Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard Univ Press 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. A comprehensive account of the Palestinian struggle and the PLO and also a telling case study of radical revolutionary and Third World politics of our time. Jacket photograph of 'Jubilant Palestinians drape their flag over the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem's Old City after the Israeli-PLO Accord signing Friday September 1993'. Binding of black half cloth red titled with brown parchment designed paper-wrapped boards very clean and unmarked with slight rubbing of spine heel and lower edge. Tight and solid square with sharp corners. Former owner name on endpaper with a line through it. Light small smudge on fore edge of page edges otherwise clean and white. Pages clean no markings no tears. Unclipped clean jacket with light wear around spine head and heel. 271 pages with Notes Bibliography Glossary and Index. 1994 Harvard Univ Press Cambridge MA and London England Harvard Univ Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015486 ISBN : 0674768035 9780674768031
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Roosevelt Eleanor
India and the Awakening of the East
New York: Harper and Bros 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Archival protective jacket cover. 32 pages of photographs. Endpaper map of the Middle East 1952. Green quarter cloth with light green titles light green boards; very clean and unmarked sunned along edges edges lightly rubbed. Tight and solid. Rough cut. Pages clean completely unmarked lightly and evenly toned. Clean and bright jacket in amazingly good condition rubbed along fold sunned on spine not price-clipped. A five month journey in 1952 that grew out of a dispute in the United nations about undernourished children--to Lebanon Syria Jordan Israel Pakistan India and Indonesia--E. Roosevelt said on landing in Lebanon "I have come to learn" and she tells a moving and personal story about the problems and hopes of peoples coming of age. 237 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Harper and Bros New York 1953. Harper and Bros hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015050
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Orfalea Gregory
Before the Flames: A Quest for the History of Arab Americans
Austin Texas U.S.A. And London England: Univ of Texas Press 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. A powerful and personal account of some one hundred years of Arab-American history in the United States for over two million Arab-Americans. Very clean solid handsome volume. Tight & solid sewn binding. Jacket bright and clean with trace wear along some edges. 354 pages with Notes Glossary Bibliography and Index. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. University of Texas Press Austin Texas 1988. Univ of Texas Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015051 ISBN : 0292707487 9780292707481
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THOMAS HUGH
SUEZ
U.S.A: Harper & Row 1966. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE and Vintage Jacket in Very Good Condition. Mylar jacket cover. An essay in contemporary history that explores and explains the extraordinary sequence of events that culminated in the Anglo-French Suez expedition in 1956 and the Israeli invasion of the Sinai Peninsula; the enmity between Dulles and Eden; the Israeli desire for a preventive war; the shades of Munich and appeasement that haunted British statesmen; the question of oil supplies; --so many aspects perhaps unknown or forgotten about this international crises in the 1950s. Black cloth red and yellow titled on spine; very clean and unmarked; no edgewear; top edge of text block dust-dulled; tight and solid binding. internals in fine condition. Clean black jacket with orange lettering rubbed light edgewear light chipping to spine ends. 264 pages. 5.75x8.5". 1966 Harper & Row USA Harper & Row hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015102
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Schultheis Rob
Night Letters: Inside Wartime Afghanistan
USA: Orion Books/Crown Publishing 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Type: Hardback First Printing Hardcover Book and jacket As New. An account from the front lines of the Afghan civil war giving a human face to a conflict that is hard for Americans to understand. Rob Schulteis fell in love with Afghanistan in the 1970s when it had barely changed for 500 years before being plunged into civil war. Through the eighties he reported on the war from the front lines. Afghanistan 1979-1989. 155 pages. 5.25 x 9.5 inches. Orion Books/Crown Publishing New York 1992 Orion Books/Crown Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 014534 ISBN : 0517588617 9780517588611
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Howe Irving and Gershman Carl Editors
Israel The Arabs And The Middle East
New York: Quadrangle Books 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Binding of blue-green cloth gilt titled; very clean and unmarked; slight rubbing of edges with strip of sunning on upper and lower edge. Tight solid and square. Interior is in Fine Condition pages toned. Blue and green striped jacket very clean with slight corner and edge wear rear jacket flap wrinkled. Writing "as partisans but not as propagandists" the editors of this volume have joined witha distinguidhed group of contributors to seriously probed the problems of the Middle East. Their central premise is that the survival of Israel is a major priority for everyone who cares about democracy. 440 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Quadrangle Books New York 1972. Quadrangle Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 014096
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Bulloch John
The Persian Gulf Unveiled
New York: Congdon and Weed Inc 1984. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Type: Hardback First U.S.Printing. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a VG Jacket. John Bulloch takes the reader into the oil-rich states of the Persian Gulf--Kuwait Qatar Bahrain United Arab Emirates- with an introduction to their sheikhs tells about their rivalries their history their future. He explores the impact of the oil boom on these once subsistence economies. Binding of burgundy half-cloth gilt titled with tan cloth-wrapped boards very clean and unmarked tight and solid volume. Frontspiece: maps of the area. Internals clean and free from any markings. Jacket is not price-clipped has slight wear to spine head. . 224 pages with index. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Congdon and Weed Inc. New York 1984. Congdon and Weed, Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 014265
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TIMERMAN JACOBO
The Longest War: Israel in Lebanon
New York New York USA: Alfred A Knopf Inc 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Translated from the Spanish by Miguel Acoca. Binding of cream half cloth with gilt titles brown boards also with gilt lettering. Top and bottom edge of front panel lightly sunned otherwise fine. Rough cut. Interior is very clean and unmarked. Book is solid square with sharp corners. Israel's controversial invasion of Lebanon is the topic of this harrowing book that describes the impact of the war both on the author and his country which have consequences of the most importance to the Israeli state and its people in that for the first time Israel became the agressor. A book of the greatest significance. 167 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 1982 Alfred A Knopf Inc New York New York USA Alfred A Knopf Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013867 ISBN : 0394530225 9780394530222
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Timmerman Kenneth
Preachers of Hate : Islam and the War on America
New York: Crown Forum/Crown Publishing 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket AS NEW. 370 pages. Very clean and unmarked inside and out solid and tight binding of black and yellowish-tan paper-covered boards square with sharp corners. 370 pages 8vo. Crown Publishing New York Crown Forum/Crown Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013891 ISBN : 1400049016 9781400049011
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Gowers Andrew and Walker Tony
Behind the Myth: Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Revolution
Brooklyn New York USA: Olive Branch Press/Interlink Pub Grp 1992. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Type: Hardback First US Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Photographic illustrations. Maps on endpapers. Black cloth binding with gilt titles; a very clean unmarked tight & solid volume. Spine has a faint lean else Fine. Fine Jacket is not price-clipped. An inside account of one of the most controversial national movements of the modern era: of its origins its armed struggle against Israel its gradual shift from violence to diplomacy. The author explores the many different roles Arafat has played during his nearly forty year career as a Palestinian activist. 407 pages with Notes Bibliography and Index. 5 x 9.5 inches. Olive Branch Press/Interlink Publishing Brooklyn NY 1992. Olive Branch Press/Interlink Pub Grp hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013917 ISBN : 0940793865 9780940793866
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Rubin Barry
Cauldron of Turmoil: America in the Middle East
Orlando Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket in Archival Protective Cover. Book has remainder mark otherwise in Fine Condition. Rarry Rubin discusses the origins and course of the Persian Gulf War and its background and repercussions from the oil price boom of the mid-1970s to Iran's 1978-79 revolution; from the American diplomates held hostage between 1978 and 1981 to the eight year million casualty Iran-Iraq War. He helps us understand the complex history of the Middle East and also the history of America's involvement in the region. 306 pages with Notes and Index. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 1992 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Orlando Florida U.S.A. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013922 ISBN : 0151161283 9780151161287
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Kelly JB
Arabia the Gulf and the West: A Critical View of the Arabs and Their Oil Policy
New York New York U.S.A: Basic Books Inc 1980. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fifth Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in FINE Condition. Last in Print. Fine navy cloth binding with gilt titles on spine. Very clean and unmarked; tight & solid sewn binding square with sharp corners intact endband. Internals as new. Brown and orange jacket with gold titles price-clipped. Published in 1980. Kelly critically examines the post-war history of the regimes in power in the Arabian Peninsula the impact that oil has and has not had on their societies and he discusses the uses they put to their oil riches. He demonstrates conclusively that the West's policy of appeasement starting with the British abandonment of her position in the Gulf and our failure to step in there afterward has had disastrous consequences that we maybe now fully recognize. 530 pages with bibliography and index. 6.4 x 9.5 inches. Basic Books New York 1980. Basic Books, Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013920 ISBN : 0465004156 9780465004157
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Sciolino Elaine
The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis
New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Veteran reporter Elaine Sciolino presents the story of Saddam Hussein and his outlaw state in an authoritative historical perspecteive. Eight pages of illustrations. Golden brown half cloth with black titles black boards. Very clean unmarked tight & solid sewn binding square with sharp corners. Bright and clean unclipped jacket. 320 pages with Chronology of Events Bibliography and Index. 6.25 x 9.4 inches. John Wiley & Sons New York 1991. IRAQ-POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; PERSIAN GULF WAR 1991. John Wiley & Sons Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013925 ISBN : 0471542997 9780471542995
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Lewis Bernard
What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ Press 2002. Hardcover. As New/As New. Type: Hardback Ninth Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Black-and-white illustrations. Bound in blue half cloth with silver titles blue boards very clean unmarked tight solid and square. Blue unclipped jacket with painting of 'The quay of the Dolmabahce Place Kaiser Wilhelm II on a visit to Sultan Abdulhamid II is boarding the royal boat'. Bernard Lewis explores the eclipse of the Middle East in the last three centuries and how the aftermath is felt to this day. He sheds light on the massive divide between the West and Islam societies of today.180 pages with Notes and Index. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Oxford University Press Oxford and New York 2002. Oxford Univ Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013187 ISBN : 0195144201 9780195144208
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MUNTHE TURI EDITOR
THE SADDAM HUSSEIN READER
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press and Balliett & Fitzgerald Inc 2002. Paperback. Good. Type: Ex-Library Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Selections from leading writers on Iraq. Used Retired library book with wear to cover book has been used/read. Cover is clean light crease down middle. Text block edges show use. Pages clean and unmarked. Page edges have small marks. Clear and readable book. 556 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 Inches. Thunder's Mouth Press New York 2002. Thunder's Mouth Press and Balliett & Fitzgerald Inc paperback
Bookseller reference : 005938 ISBN : 1560254289 9781560254287
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TIME LIFE BOOK EDITORS
India Library of Nations
USA: Time-Life Books 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition. No jacket as issued. One of a series of books describing countries of the world-their natural resources peoples customs and traditions histories economies and governments. Beautifully illustrated with full color and b/w photographs. Bound in red leatherette w/silver titles paper illustration affixed to front cover of wicker lanterns hanging on tall bamboo poles glowing beside the Ganges River. Clean and unmarked tight and solid volume. Front and back endpapers: The major rivers plains mountain ranges and other natural features; the country's states territories and major cities. A beautiful and informative book. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. 160 pages with bibliography and index. Time-Life Books Alexandria VA 1987. Time-Life Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003428 ISBN : 0809451727 9780809451722
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Wallace Lew
The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell--Vol II
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1906. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Type: Ex-Library Hardcover 1906 Retired Library Book in Good Condition. No Jacket. An older book nice worn small thick with a fascinating story. The author was a minister to Turkey thus his intimate knowledge of that part of the world. Brown cloth binding w/ gilt titles; panels and edges rubbed bottom front corner has dark smudge spine has slight lean. Corners rounded. Sewn binding tight and solid. Pages clean no underlining no highlighting no writing moderately toned. Brown endpapers book-taped reinforced at hinge. There is residue left on the back paste-down from a library pocket and a lib. number on spine. This is a lesser known work by the author of Ben-Hur; he served as governor of the territory of New Mexico and as a U.S. diplomat as minister to the Ottoman Empire. Lew Wal;lace 1827-1905. 578 pages w/index. 6.75 x 4.5 inches. 1906 Harper & Brothers New York and London. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002626
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Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Burton's Travels in Arabia and Africa: Four Lectures from a Huntington Library Manuscript
Huntington Library Press 2005. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition in every respect. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 109 pages as new. Huntington Library Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 143555 ISBN : 0873282094 9780873282093
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Baroud Ramzy; Noam Chomsky preface
Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion
Cune Press 2003. Trade Paperback. Good. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is marked occasionally in pencil with underlining and marginalia. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only no tears. 285 pages with b&w photos. Cune Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 143673 ISBN : 1885942346 9781885942340
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Erlich Reese; Noam Chomsky
Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
Prometheus Books 2016. Trade Paperback. Good. Book looks great binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is marked occasionally with marginalia and underlining. Prometheus Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 142738 ISBN : 1633882357 9781633882355
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Shawqi Abu Khalil
Atlas on the Prophet's Biography
U.S.A.: Dar-us-Salam Publications 2004. Hard Cover. Very Good/Pictorial Boards. Book shows light wear to covers with three pages of interior with marking otherwise clean solidly bound little wear only. Lots of maps with photos and text. 292 pages. Dar-us-Salam Publications hardcover
Bookseller reference : 140086 ISBN : 9960897710 9789960897714
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Brynner Yul
Bring Forth the Children: A Journey to the Forgotten People of Europe and the Middle East
NY: McGraw-Hill. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed lower corners bumped jacket tattered torn price-clipped and has waterstain on top edge of front panel. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Photographs by Inge Morath and Yul Brynner. Cloth-backed boards. Many photos in this account of postwar refugee camps in Germany Austria Jordan Jerusalem and the Gaza strip undertaken while the late actor served as Special Consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 155 pages . McGraw-Hill hardcover
Bookseller reference : 44252
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Glueck Nelson
Rivers in the Desert: A History of the Negev
NY: Farrar Straus and Cudahy. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and toned. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. xv 302pp. Map endpapers. Red cloth binding. Many photos. Index to text index to Biblical citations.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Farrar, Straus and Cudahy hardcover
Bookseller reference : 44241
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Lowdermilk Walter Clay
Palestine: Land of Promise
New York: Greenwood Press 1968. Reprint of 1944 edition. 244 pp. Land reclamation development and conservation in Palestine. Signed under non-personal inscription by Inez Marks Lowdermilk author's widow and dedicatee of the present book on dedication page and additionally inscribed and signed by her to previous owner on front free endpaper. A photocopy of an article by Inez Lowdermilk is laid in. Spine cocked rubbed at crown and heel; upper corners of boards bumped page edges tanned. Lacks dust jacket. . Inscribed. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Greenwood Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10894
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Warren Kathleen A.
Daring to Cross the Threshold: Francis of Assisi Encounters Sultan Malek al-Kamil
Rochester Minnesota: SIsters of Saint Francis 2003. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean off-white pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Study of Saint Francis of Assisi's encounters with Islam. ; 8.5" 18.5 cm tall; 151 pages. SIsters of Saint Francis unknown
Bookseller reference : 4030037
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