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100 Years of the Suez Canalby: Duff, R. E. B.

100 Years of the Suez Canal
by: Duff, R. E. B.

Hardcover. London, Clifton Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853919

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A Critical Introduction to Khomeiniby: Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

A Critical Introduction to Khomeini
by: Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 318 pages. As the architect of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini remains one of the most inspirational and enigmatic figures of the twentieth century. The revolution placed Iran at the forefront of Middle East politics and of the Islamic revival. Twenty years after his death, Khomeini is revered as a spiritual and political figurehead in Iran and in large swathes of the Islamic world, while in the West he is remembered by many as a dictator and as the instigator of Islamist confrontation. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam brings together both distinguished and emerging scholars in this comprehensive volume, which covers all aspects of Khomeini's life and critically examines Khomeini the politician, the philosopher, and the spiritual leader. The book details Khomeini's early years in exile from Iran, the revolution itself, and events that took place thereafter including the hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq war. Lastly, the book considers his legacy in Iran - where Khomeini's image has been used by both reformist and conservative politicians to develop their own agendas - and further afield in other parts of the Islamic world and in the West. Written by scholars from varying disciplinary backgrounds, the book will prove invaluable to students and general readers interested in the life and times of Khomeini and the politics of Islam that he inspired.

Record # 378320

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Aden to the Hadhramaut: A Journey into South Arabiaby: Van der Meulen, D.

Aden to the Hadhramaut: A Journey into South Arabia
by: Van der Meulen, D.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 2nd pr., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 254 pages, index, b&w illustrations, double-page map. Light beige cloth, gilt lettering on spine, top of spine with fraying, light spotting to front cover otherwise clean. An illuminating record of travel in the Aden Protectorate in 1939 on the eve of World War II by a Dutch scholar of the region and it's people.

Record # 412295

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Afghan Gold: Photographs 1973 - 2003 by: Powell, Luke

Afghan Gold: Photographs 1973 - 2003
by: Powell, Luke

Hardcover.. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. 2 volume set. Oversize hardcover and softcover in slipcase. Very clean, unmarked copies. Very minor soiling to slipcase. Beautiful color photographs throughout.

Record # 353584

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Algeria, 1830

Algeria, 1830

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 283 pages. A particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher. This terrible war overshadows Algeria's long and complex history and its prominence on the world economic stage-second in size among African nations, Algeria has the longest Mediterranean coastline and contains the world's fifth-largest natural gas reserves. Algeria, 1830-2000 is a comprehensive narrative history of the country. Benjamin Stora, widely recognized as the leading expert on Algeria, presents the story of this turbulent area from the start of formal French colonialism in the early nineteenth century, through the prolonged war for independence in the latter 1950s, to the internal strife of the present day. This book adapts and updates three short volumes published originally in French by La Decouverte. For this English edition, Stora has written a new introductory chapter on Algeria's colonial period (1830-1954) and has revised the final section to bring the volume up to date.

Record # 374733

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Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraqby: Stamaty, Mark Alan

Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq
by: Stamaty, Mark Alan

Hardcover. NY, Dragonfly Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover, 32 pages. The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian's courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war.It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her country. Determined to preserve the irreplacable records of the culture and history of the land on which she lives from the destruction of the war, Alia undertakes a courageous and extremely dangerous task of spiriting away 30,000 books from the library to a safe place. Told in dramatic graphic-novel panels by acclaimed cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty, Alia's Mission celebrates the importance of books and the freedom to read, while examining the impact of war on a country and its people.

Record # 361493

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Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraqby: Stamaty, Mark Alan

Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq
by: Stamaty, Mark Alan

Hardcover. NY, Dragonfly Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian's courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war.It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her country. Determined to preserve the irreplacable records of the culture and history of the land on which she lives from the destruction of the war, Alia undertakes a courageous and extremely dangerous task of spiriting away 30,000 books from the library to a safe place. Told in dramatic graphic-novel panels by acclaimed cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty, Alia's Mission celebrates the importance of books and the freedom to read, while examining the impact of war on a country and its people.

Record # 361495

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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacyby: Fukuyama, Francis

America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy
by: Fukuyama, Francis

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "...in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of American Foreign policy." Clean copy.

Record # 30165

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An Introduction to Persian Literatureby: Levy, Reuben

An Introduction to Persian Literature
by: Levy, Reuben

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 194 pages. Index, map, biliographies, appendices. Clean copy.

Record # 385917

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Ancient Iraqby: Roux, Georges

Ancient Iraq
by: Roux, Georges

Softcover. London, Penguin Books, 2rd Ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 547 pages, b&w illustrations. Newly revised and containing information from recent excavations and discovered artifacts, Ancient Iraq covers the political, cultural, and socio-economic history from Mesopotamia days of prehistory to the Christian era. Clean copy.

Record # 386078

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Animals of Bible Lands by: Cansdale, George

Animals of Bible Lands
by: Cansdale, George

Hardcover. Devon UK, Paternoster Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that's price-clipped, 272 pages, b&w, color illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 385711

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Arabia Felix: Images of Yemen and its Peopleby: Marechaux, Pascal

Arabia Felix: Images of Yemen and its People
by: Marechaux, Pascal

Hardcover. Woodbury, NY, Barron's, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 81 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 2230146

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Archives From Elephantine: The Life of an Ancient Jewish Military Colony by: Porten, Bezalel

Archives From Elephantine: The Life of an Ancient Jewish Military Colony
by: Porten, Bezalel

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and darkened dust jacket, 421 pages with frontispiece map, illustrations and 16 photographic plates. Important economic, religious, and social study of the ancient Jewish settlement on the island of Elephantine. During the 5th century B.C., the southern frontier of ancient Egypt was guarded by an Aramean garrison at Syene (modern Aswan) and a Jewish garrison on the adjacent island of Elephantine. This study is an interpretation of the well-known group of Aramaic papyrus texts found on the site at the beginning of the 20th century. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 385379

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Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa by: Smith, Mary

Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa
by: Smith, Mary

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber , 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket. The autobiography of an intelligent, traditional Hausa woman. An excellent piece of ethnography. The author, the wife of social anthropologist, became Baba's friend in Nigeria. After many conversations between the two women, she agreed to dictate the story of her life. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 380850

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Baghdad Journal: An Artist in Occupied Iraqby: Mumford, Steve

Baghdad Journal: An Artist in Occupied Iraq
by: Mumford, Steve

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, color illustrations by Mumford. Light bump to top of spine. Bright dust jacket. Not overtly political, Bagdad Journal presents portraits of life from all sides of the polarizing conflict. With sketch pad and notebook in hand, Mumford illuminates the routine activities of a nation in turmoil-from the individual soldiers of American platoons to Baghdad residents going about their daily lives amid the chaos surrounding them.

Record # 351205

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Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle Eastby: Kamrava, Mehran (Editor)

Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East
by: Kamrava, Mehran (Editor)

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, french flaps, small bump to bottom of spine (see image). Pages clean. Binding good. Examines the nature and evolution of ruling bargains, the political systems to which they gave rise, the steady unraveling of the old systems and the structural consequences thereof, and the uprisings that have engulfed much of the Middle East since Dec. 2010.

Record # 99050

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Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the 'emancipation' of Muslim Women, 1954-62 by: Neil MacMaster

Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the 'emancipation' of Muslim Women, 1954-62
by: Neil MacMaster

Softcover. Manchester University Press , 1st pbk, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women as part of a strategy of subverting the nationalist movement whilst also inflicting widespread violence. First comprehensive study in English of the role of Muslim women during the Algerian war, bringing a unique interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Clean copy.

Record # 374705

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By Bus to the Saharaby: West, Gordon

By Bus to the Sahara
by: West, Gordon

Hardcover. London, Travel Book Club , 1st, Book: Good, Hardcover, 233 pages, color frontispiece and 8 b&w plates by Mary Gordon West, endpapers map. Light shelfwear. No date but appears to be about 1940.

Record # 405146

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Cambridge Ancient History,Third Edition, Volume II, Part I: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region 1800-1380 BCby: Edwards, I.E.S., C.J. Gadd, H.G.L. Hammon

Cambridge Ancient History,Third Edition, Volume II, Part I: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region 1800-1380 BC
by: Edwards, I.E.S., C.J. Gadd, H.G.L. Hammon

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 868 pages, terra-cotta cloth covers, b&w illustrations, maps tables. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 403124

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Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism by: Yegenoglu, Meyda

Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism
by: Yegenoglu, Meyda

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 196 pages. investigates the intersection between post-colonial and feminist criticism, via the Western fascination with veiled women of the Orient. Her original and compelling argument calls into question dualistic conceptions of identity and difference, West and East masculinist assumptions of Orientalism, and Western feminist discourses that seek to 'liberate' the veiled woman. Clean copy.

Record # 378838

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Constantinople (2 Volumes)by: Grosvenor, Edwin A.

Constantinople (2 Volumes)
by: Grosvenor, Edwin A.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete. 811 pages, many b&w illustrations. Green cloth with black rule, gilt design and lettering, top edge gilt. Volume one with fraying to cloth at top of spine, previous owner's sticker inside front covers. Otherwise clean, very good set.

Record # 408238

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Daily Life in Palestine at the Time of Christby: Daniel-Rops, Henri

Daily Life in Palestine at the Time of Christ
by: Daniel-Rops, Henri

Softcover. London, Phoenix Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 500 pages. The youngest member ever of the esteemed Academie Francaise--and winner of the Legion of Honor--produces a towering, erudite study of the humble men and women who were Christ's very first followers. Historically rich, it captures everything from the occupations, families, and homes to the flowers and birds native to the land. ".wealth of information.about customs, language, habits, clothes, food and all the other features.will make the reading of the New Testament far more real and vivid."--The Times. Clean copy.

Record # 385597

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Descriptive Catalogue of the Maiolica Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian Wares, in the South Kensington Museum, Aby: Fortnum, C. Drury E.

Descriptive Catalogue of the Maiolica Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian Wares, in the South Kensington Museum, A
by: Fortnum, C. Drury E.

Hardcover. London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 699 pages. Hardcover. Beautifully rebound first edition. Blue cloth covers with title in gilt on black leather spine label. Features black & white illustrations and full color tipped-in plates. Clean, tight. A very nice copy.

Record # 611888

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Doors of the Kingdomby: Gouverneur/Khaled Azzam (Author), Mohamed Zakariya , Haajar

Doors of the Kingdom
by: Gouverneur/Khaled Azzam (Author), Mohamed Zakariya , Haajar

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages, color photographs, Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Doors of the Kingdom is a unique collection of photographs depicting the ancient and disappearing craft of doormaking in Arabia. The Islamic concept of hurma, or sanctity of a place of dwelling or worship, is recurrent throughout Arabic poetry and literature. The door (bab), preserver of sanctity, becomes symbolic of the boundary between public and private space, and between the profane and the sacred. In 1995, Haajar Gouverneur traveled throughout the Arabian Peninsula photographing each region's distinctive doorways and the remaining artisans who make them. The doors of Arabia, painstakingly hand-carved from the wood of the Al-Athel trees, last in their exquisite variety for hundreds of years. This ancient craft, passed down from generation to generation in the central and northern regions of Saudi Arabia, is now nearly extinct. Modern materials, technology, and changing priorities threaten the continuity of the sacred and artisanal tradition of doormaking.

Record # 404416

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Eastern Province-Saudi Arabia A Photo Memory 1935-1995 by: Al-Ayaf, Abdulaziz: Editor; Al-Shabeeb, Mohammed: Principal Photographer

Eastern Province-Saudi Arabia A Photo Memory 1935-1995
by: Al-Ayaf, Abdulaziz: Editor; Al-Shabeeb, Mohammed: Principal Photographer

Hardcover. Saudi Arabia, Information Window Agency, 1st, 1995, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 155 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Bilingual English-Arabic. "Reviews the huge positive development that has taken place in more than half a century. Shows the old simple ways of living, desert life, pasturing, pearl diving, irrigation and farming, sea trade through simple traditional ports - then moves to the period following the discovery of oil and the developments which followed the proper use of such natural resources making this Province a high-tech employment area and a place that the world looks up to." Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397806

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Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architectureby: Mark Crinson

Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture
by: Mark Crinson

Softcover. London/NY, Routledge , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages, illustrated in b&w. Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West.The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace.Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.

Record # 372178

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Expedition of Cyrus into Persia and the Retreat of Ten Thousand Greeks, The: Translated from Xenophon (2 Vols.)by: Spelman (Transl.), Edward

Expedition of Cyrus into Persia and the Retreat of Ten Thousand Greeks, The: Translated from Xenophon (2 Vols.)
by: Spelman (Transl.), Edward

Hardcover. London, D. Browne et al., 2nd Ed., 1749, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete. Vol. 1: 323 pages, folding map in front in very good condition. Vol. 2: 275 pages. Bound in calf with gilt rules, ribbed spines. Covers with light edgewear,hanging on but gutters cracked. Previous owner's signature, bookplate on front end paper, Volume 2 is missing front fly leaf, same page in Volume 1has about one inch trimmed from top. Internally, both volumes in excellent condition with firm bindings.

Record # 405891

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Freya Stark in Persiaby: Ruthven, Malise

Freya Stark in Persia
by: Ruthven, Malise

Hardcover. Reading, Garnet, 1st UK, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 118 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Freya Stark. 1/2" deep closed tear at top right corner of first 4 pages - appears to be publishers error. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609387

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From Vermont to Damascus: Returning by Way of Beyrout, Smyrna, Ephesus, Athens, Constantinople, Budapest, Vienna, Paris, Scotland, and Englandby: Brown, Adna

From Vermont to Damascus: Returning by Way of Beyrout, Smyrna, Ephesus, Athens, Constantinople, Budapest, Vienna, Paris, Scotland, and England
by: Brown, Adna

Hardcover. Boston, Geo. H. Ellis, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with bright gilt lettering, all edges gilt, 209 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's stamp on front endpapers. Bright original 1895 edition.

Record # 412011

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Gassed in the Gulf: The Insider Story of the Pentagon CIA Cover Up of Gulf War Syndrome by: Patrick G. Eddington

Gassed in the Gulf: The Insider Story of the Pentagon CIA Cover Up of Gulf War Syndrome
by: Patrick G. Eddington

Hardcover. Washington DC, Insignia Publishing Company, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 347 pages. The first book about Gulf War Syndrome. An intensely personal account of the struggle of two dedicated public servants to expose one of the largest government cover-ups of modern history. A former CIA analyst exposes the officially sanctioned deceptions that have made Gulf War veterans the walking wounded of Desert Storm. NOTE: The first blank page has been torn out but does not affect the rest of the book, in clean condition.

Record # 396661

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Hellenism in Jewish Palestine: Studies in the Literary Transmission Beliefs and Manners of Palestine in the I Century B.C.E.-IV Century C.E. by: Lieberman, Saul

Hellenism in Jewish Palestine: Studies in the Literary Transmission Beliefs and Manners of Palestine in the I Century B.C.E.-IV Century C.E.
by: Lieberman, Saul

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2nd Ed., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 231 pages. (Essays in Judaism series) In this book, master Talmudist and scholar of the Greco-Roman world, the late Professor Saul Lieberman, elucidates words, texts, customs, and practices in either rabbinic or classical literature, often by reference to passages in the other. In Greek in Jewish Palestine, he demonstrates that almost every foreign word and phrase have their raison d'etre in rabbinic literature and that all Greek phrases in rabbinic literature are quotations. Hellenism in Greek Palestine is an inquiry into the spirit of many rabbinic observations and investigations of the facts, incidents, opinions, notions and beliefs to which the Rabbis allude in their statements. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386123

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Horses of the Sahara and the Manners of the Desert, Theby: Daumas, E.

Horses of the Sahara and the Manners of the Desert, The
by: Daumas, E.

Hardcover. London, Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green pebbled cloth stamped with a gilt design of an Arab horseman standing next to his horse, gilt title on spine. Commentaries by The Emir Abd-El-Kader, translated from the French by James Hutton. Clean and bright copy.

Record # 411704

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Inge Morath: Iran by: Azar Nafisi/ Monika Faber

Inge Morath: Iran
by: Azar Nafisi/ Monika Faber

Hardcover. Steidl, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages. Inge Morath traveled to the Middle East for Holiday magazine where she wore the traditional chador and traveled alone most of the time. "It was difficult to photograph there as a woman," she later wrote. Morath's subjects range from politics to religion and from work to commerce; from the Shahs palace to the nomads tent to the Zoroasters sacred shrine.

Record # 361859

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Inside Algeriaby: Michael von Graffenried , Mary-Jane Deeb, et al.

Inside Algeria
by: Michael von Graffenried , Mary-Jane Deeb, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Michael von Graffenried, an award-winning Swiss photographer, covertly photographed civil strife in Algeria from the early 1990s through 1998. In a land where Islamic terrorists have executed over sixty journalists and photographers in the last seven years, Graffenried's very survival is remarkable. His extraordinary accomplishment, however, is these photographs, which form a composite of Algeria that is more whole than the nation itself, fractured by one segment of the population in favor of democracy and another in favor of an Islamic state. Graffenried makes his pictures secretly, using an antique Widelux panoramic camera with a hidden lens. He would risk his picture and his life were he to raise a camera to his eyes. Instead, he shoots from the hip, with his hands clasped over what looks like a pair of binoculars. In learning to frame his photographs without a viewfinder, he opens himself to a rich array of surprise and irony in his pictures, and reveals a society that has been concealed from the international community for nearly seven years.

Record # 362445

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Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture by: Bernard Lewis (Ed.)

Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture
by: Bernard Lewis (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 360 pages. Published in association with the American Heritage Publishing Co. Text by Bernard Lewis, Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Fritz Meier, Charles Pellat, A. Shiloah, A.I. Sabra, Edmund Bosworth, Emilio Garcia Gomex, Roger M. Savory, Norman Itzkowitz, S.A.A. Rizvi, Elie Kedourie. Illustrated with 495 reproductions, photographs, drawings, and maps, 160 of them in full color.

Record # 372044

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Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East Contemporary Issues in the Middle East by: Posner, Steve

Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
by: Posner, Steve

Hardcover. Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 350 pages. Describes Israel's use of spies in Lebanon during the seventies, the secret relations between Israel and Jordan, and U.S. secret channels to the PLO. Posner focuses on violence and terrorism employed by the Palestinians in their quest for nationhood, and on inter-communal violence in the Middle East in general and more specifically in Lebanon. He treats the little-known Circassion community in Jordan, that community's role in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Sadat peace initiative, and the role of the United States in seeking a peaceful resolution of the civil war in Lebanon. A good book to gain a perspective on contemporary diplomacy and Middle East politics. Clean copy.

Record # 385710

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Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women by: Jennifer Heath; Ashraf Zahedi

Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women
by: Jennifer Heath; Ashraf Zahedi

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 393 pages. Reaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists-most with extended experience inside Afghanistan-examine the realities of life for women in both urban and rural settings. They address topics including food security, sex work, health, marriage, education, poetry, politics, prisoners, and community development. Eschewing stereotypes about the burqa, the contributors focus instead on women's empowerment and agency, and their struggles for peace and justice in the face of a brutal ongoing war. A fuller picture of Afghanistan's women past and present emerges, leading to social policy suggestions and pragmatic solutions for a peaceful future. Review copy stamp on top edge otherwise like new.

Record # 382292

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Laura Was My Camelby: Weigall, Arthur

Laura Was My Camel
by: Weigall, Arthur

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes Company , 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose color cloth stamped in black. 138 pages. Shelf-worn but solid. B&w cartoon illustrations by O. Soglow. Humorous memoir of the Inspector-General of Antiquities in Egypt and his camel. Ink name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 371209

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Lawrence of Arabia and His Worldby: Richard Perceval Graves

Lawrence of Arabia and His World
by: Richard Perceval Graves

London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. 126 pages: 98 black and white illustrations and maps. Synopsis: A richly illustrated account of the historical background to, and life of T. E .Lawrence. Clean copy.

Record # 383253

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Love and Warby: Simoneau, Guillaume

Love and War
by: Simoneau, Guillaume

Hardcover. Stockport UK, Dewi Lewis, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, 40 color images by Simoneau documenting his relationship with Caroline Annandale. Clean. No dust jacket issued. Simoneau, a Montreal-based photographer, chronicles his long romantic relationship with Caroline Annandale. Having met at a photography workshop in 2000, Simoneau and Annandale engaged in what the book's description calls a "feverish" relationship, which took a turn on September 11th 2001, the date of the World Trade Center attacks in New York. Shortly afterwards, Annandale enlisted in the US Army and was shipped off to Iraq. Simoneau, the photographer of this love story, stayed behind. Simoneau does not present what might be expected from a 'war' book, nor does he delve into the gender role switch of the female partner going to combat while the male stays back on the homefront. Instead, his view of war becomes a unique assembly of what he sees and feels from a distance. Removed from the actual conflict, but connected emotionally to Caroline Annandale, Simoneau's view takes on a limited frame: he can see only what is sent to him or what is represented in the media during wartime. Love and War therefore is a book about war, and yet, the war is defined by the absence it's created in Simoneau's life.

Record # 352323

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Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speakby:  Fernea Elizabeth Warnock and Basima Qattan Bezirgan Edited by

Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak
by: Fernea Elizabeth Warnock and Basima Qattan Bezirgan Edited by

Softcover. Austin TX, University Of Texas Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400+ pages. A collection of autobiographical and biographical writings by and about Middle Eastern women. Many of the selections have been translated by the editors from Arabic, Persian or French. Illustrated with b/w photos.

Record # 374787

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Mosque (SIGNED COPY)by: Macaulay, David

Mosque (SIGNED COPY)
by: Macaulay, David

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, David Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late-sixteenth- century Turkey. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbing to edges.

Record # 368005

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Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial State in Algeria (Princeton Legacy Library) by: Allan Christelow

Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial State in Algeria (Princeton Legacy Library)
by: Allan Christelow

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. Clean, like new.

Record # 371928

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Nomads of Luristan: History, Material Culture and Pastoralism in Western Iranby: Mortensen, Inge Demant

Nomads of Luristan: History, Material Culture and Pastoralism in Western Iran
by: Mortensen, Inge Demant

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 413 pages, illustrated with 450 plates, 50 in color. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Errata slip laid in.

Record # 404427

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Orientalist Photographs: 1870-1950by: Milet, Eric

Orientalist Photographs: 1870-1950
by: Milet, Eric

Hardcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Pays homage to the ultimate travel dream of that era. This collection of over 100 autochrome, sepia, and black and white photographs captures delicate, lost details: the dusty, labyrinthine walls of the casbah; the dappled sunlight on the market stall of a souk; the intricate metal work of traditional jewelry. Each image is accompanied by an informative text that situates the photograph in its historical reality.

Record # 350516

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Palestine and Syria: Handbook for Travellersby: Baedeker, K. (Editor)

Palestine and Syria: Handbook for Travellers
by: Baedeker, K. (Editor)

Hardcover. London, England, Karl Baedeker, 2nd Edition, REvised and Augmented, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 444 pages. Hardcover (flexible cloth). "With 17 Maps, 44 Plans, and a Panorama of Jerusalem". B/w and color illustrated maps, some fold out. Red fabric cover boards with gilt title on spine (faded) and front cover board. Banded design blind stamped on boards and spine. Fabric ribbon bookmark attached at top of spine. Age wear to covers (see images). Former library book with expected labels, marks, stamps and other identifying characteristics (see images). Decorated marbled edges. Front cover has bump to top right corner (see image). Charming, old, pocket-sized travel book that will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about turn-of-the-century Palestine and Syria.

Record # 369301

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Perseus in the Wind by: Freya Stark

Perseus in the Wind
by: Freya Stark

Hardcover. London, John Murray, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt titles, 169 pages. B&w decorations by Reynolds Stone. Musings on travel by intrepid explorer Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993). Clean copy.

Record # 378218

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Pioneers East; The Early American Experience in the Middle East by: David H. Finnie

Pioneers East; The Early American Experience in the Middle East
by: David H. Finnie

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. Maps as endpapers. 333 pages, b&w illustrations. This book covers the first contacts between the United States and the Middle East from the earliest times (1800s) to the mid-nineteenth century. The author describes exotic people and places in the Middle East and how American interests there were far from marginal although centered around the American Protestant missionary activity during that period. Clean copy.

Record # 385399

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Poisonous Affair, A: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja (SIGNED COPY)by: Hiltermann, Joost R.

Poisonous Affair, A: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hiltermann, Joost R.

hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON FRONT FLY LEAF BY JOOST (AUTHOR) Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a town in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both sides accused the other. Gradually it emerged that Saddam Hussein, with the tacit support of his western allies, was responsible. This book tells the story of the gassing of Halabja, and how Iraq amassed chemical weapons to target Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villagers as America looked the other way. Today, as the Middle East sinks further into turmoil, these policies are coming back to haunt the West.

Record # 469487

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Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiryby: Lewis, Bernard

Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry
by: Lewis, Bernard

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 184 pages, coloe illustrations. From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and sold at the slave markets for millennia, trading the human plunder of wars and slave raids that reached from the Russian steppes to the African jungles. But if the Middle East was one of the last regions to renounce slavery, how do we account for its--and especially Islam's--image of racial harmony? How did these long years of slavery affect racial relations? In Race and Slavery in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis explores these questions and others, examining the history of slavery in law, social thought, and practice over the last two millennia. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 383466

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