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

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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1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians by: Morris, Benny - Product Image

1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians
by: Morris, Benny

Hardcover. UK, Clarendon Press, 0xford, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 284 pages. An examination of the Arab exodus from Palestine in 1948, focusing on Israeli decision-making and the causus of the mass exodus. With 4 maps. Clean copy.

Record # 371297

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A Critical Introduction to Khomeiniby: Arshin Adib-Moghaddam - Product Image

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. - Product Image

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 - Product Image

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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Afghanistan Picture Show, An : Or, How I Saved the Worldby: Vollmann, William T. - Product Image

Afghanistan Picture Show, An : Or, How I Saved the World
by: Vollmann, William T.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages, with drawings. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457885

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Algeria, 1830 - Product Image

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 - Product Image

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

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

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

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

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 - Product Image

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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By Bus to the Saharaby: West, Gordon - Product Image

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 - Product Image

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 - Product Image

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. - Product Image

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

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 - Product Image

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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Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architectureby: Mark Crinson   - Product Image

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 - Product Image

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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Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novelby: Sacco, Joe - Product Image

Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel
by: Sacco, Joe

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 432 pages. Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah-cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake-reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in the daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. As in Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, his unique visual journalism renders a contested landscape in brilliant, meticulous detail. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, Footnotes in Gaza-Sacco's most ambitious work to date-transforms a critical conflict of our age into intimate and immediate experience.

Record # 351390

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Freya Stark in Persiaby: Ruthven, Malise - Product Image

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 - Product Image

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

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 - Product Image

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. - Product Image

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 Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini (1941-1980)by: Imam Khomeini, Hamid Algar (Translator) - Product Image

Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini (1941-1980)
by: Imam Khomeini, Hamid Algar (Translator)

Softcover. Mizan Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 460 pages. A collection of the writings of Imam Khomeini. Includes his personal essays on government, speeches, declarations, letters, two extensive interviews with Hamid Algar, and also lectures on the Supreme Jihad and Surat al-Fatiha. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 377858

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

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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Laura Was My Camelby: Weigall, Arthur  - Product Image

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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Love and Warby: Simoneau, Guillaume - Product Image

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  - Product Image

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

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 - Product Image

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 - Product Image

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: The Special Edition [DELUXE EDITION]by: Sacco, Joe - Product Image

Palestine: The Special Edition [DELUXE EDITION]
by: Sacco, Joe

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st thus, 2007, Book: N, Hardcover. The landmark of comics journalism in an expanded and re-designed edition that includes a host of unseen supplemental material, including background notes, sketches, reference photos, a new interview with Sacco, and much more. Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present, for the first time, the definitive, expanded, hardcover collection of Sacco's landmark of comics journalism. Palestine: The Special Edition is more than a new edition: consider it the "Criterion" Palestine. In addition to the original, 288-page graphic novel and introduction by the late Edward Said, The Special Edition includes a host of unique material never before published, including many of Sacco's original background notes, sketches, photographic reference, and much more. The book also includes a new, introductory interview with Sacco about the making of the book as well as a new cover and design. Palestine: The Special Edition will be a cornerstone of any serious comic collection. With the Middle East's role in contemporary world politics, Sacco's Palestine has never been more relevant or more valuable to a country desperate to understand this long-running conflict. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism. Sacco's insightful reportage takes place at the front lines, where busy marketplaces are spoiled by shootings and tear gas, soldiers beat civilians with reckless abandon, and roadblocks go up before reporters can leave. Sacco interviewed and encountered prisoners, refugees, protesters, wounded children, farmers who had lost their land, and families who had been torn apart by the Palestinian conflict.

Record # 362236

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Perseus in the Wind by: Freya Stark - Product Image

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

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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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby: Khayyam, Omar/Willy Pogany - Product Image

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by: Khayyam, Omar/Willy Pogany

Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap, reprint, ND, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Illustrated with 16 tipped-in full color plates by Willy Pogany. Brown leather covers with gilt decoration on front cover with green and gray/blue flower motif at center. Title in gilt on spine. Front cover spine cracked and separated majority of its length, but cover still holding with interior hinge paper. Edges and corners of covers rubbed. Interior clean and unmarked.

Record # 609288

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Safe Area Gorazde: The Special Editionby: Sacco, Joe - Product Image

Safe Area Gorazde: The Special Edition
by: Sacco, Joe

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cloth 3/4 spine cover with gilt lettering, with silver foil decoration and illustration on front. Remainder mark on bottom page block, Clean, otherwise unmarked copy with only minor wear to corners.

Record # 352572

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Sami and the Time of the Troublesby: Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland/Ted Lewin - Product Image

Sami and the Time of the Troubles
by: Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland/Ted Lewin

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st, 1992, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color paintings by Ted Lewin. A ten-year-old Lebanese boy balances his life in a war-torn city. Lewin's watercolor illustrations capture contemporary Beirut with stunning clarity and drama.

Record # 371359

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Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iranby: Housden, Roger - Product Image

Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran
by: Housden, Roger

Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230155

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Shiraz Painting in the Sixteenth Century (SIGNED COPY)by: Guest, Grace Dunham - Product Image

Shiraz Painting in the Sixteenth Century (SIGNED COPY)
by: Guest, Grace Dunham

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art, 1st , 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, folio, terra cotta cloth stamped in gilt. INSCRIBED BY GUEST on front fly leaf. 15 black & white illustrations in text. 69 pages + 50 pages of black & white plates. Guest was appointed Assistant Curator of the Freer Gallery in 1922, in 1938 the title was changed to Assistant Director; Guest authored numerous books in the area of Chinese Art.

Record # 60347

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The Great Betrayal (SIGNED BY WISE)by: Wise, Rabbi Stephen S. & De Haas, Jacob - Product Image

The Great Betrayal (SIGNED BY WISE)
by: Wise, Rabbi Stephen S. & De Haas, Jacob

Hardcover. NY, Brentano's, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original publisher's blue cloth, lettered silver on spine and on front cover. Signed presentation from Stephen Wise on front fly leaf. 294 pages. A critique of the White Paper of Lord Passfield and the charges of betrayal hurled at the British Labor Government by Jews regarding British-Zionist relations. Mild shelf wear, clean copy. Remnants of dj laid in.

Record # 375019

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THE POLITICS OF DISPOSSESSION The Struggle for Palestinian Self Determination 1969-1994 by: Said, Edward W.  - Product Image

THE POLITICS OF DISPOSSESSION The Struggle for Palestinian Self Determination 1969-1994
by: Said, Edward W.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 450 pages. Map endpapers. Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only Palestinians but also the Arab and Muslim worlds and their tortuous relations with the West. In The Politics of Dispossession Said traces his people's struggle for statehood through twenty-five years of exile, from the PLO's bloody 1970 exile from Jordan through the debacle of the Gulf War and the ambiguous 1994 peace accord with Israel. As frank as he is about his personal involvement in that struggle, Said is equally unsparing in his demolition of Arab icons and American shibboleths. Stylish, impassioned, and informed by a magisterial knowledge of history and literature, The Politics of Dispossession is a masterly synthesis of scholarship and polemic that has the power to redefine the debate over the Middle East. Clean copy.

Record # 371715

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Under Siege in Kuwait: A Survivor's Storyby: Porter, Jadranka - Product Image

Under Siege in Kuwait: A Survivor's Story
by: Porter, Jadranka

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st U.S., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Light blue and tan cloth cover, gilt lettering, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852930

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq Warby: Ashley Gilbertson, Filkins, Dexter (Introduction) - Product Image

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
by: Ashley Gilbertson, Filkins, Dexter (Introduction)

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages.Whiskey Tango Foxtrot gathers the best of Gilbertson's photographs, chronicling America's early battles in Iraq, the initial occupation of Baghdad, the insurgency that erupted shortly afterward, the dramatic battle to overtake Falluja, and ultimately, the country's first national elections. No Western photojournalist has done as much sustained work in occupied Iraq as Gilbertson, and this wide-ranging treatment of the war from the viewpoint of a photographer is the first of its kind. Accompanying each section of the book is a personal account of Gilbertson's experiences covering the conflict. Throughout, he conveys the exhilaration and terror of photographing war, as well as the challenges of photojournalism in our age of embedded reporting. But ultimately, and just as importantly, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot tells the story of Gilbertson's own journey from hard-drinking bravado to the grave realism of a scarred survivor. Here he struggles with guilt over the death of a marine escort, tells candidly of his own experience with post-traumatic stress, and grapples with the reality that Iraq--despite the sacrifice in Iraqi and American lives--has descended into a civil war with no end in sight.

Record # 351276

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