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 First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in AfghanistanBest Price: $23.00 I purchased this book because I heard reviews from soldiers who served in Iraq &... |  We Belong to the Land: The Story of a Palestinian Israeli Who Lives for Peace and Reconciliation (Erma Konya Kess Lives of the Just and Virtuous Series)Best Price: $14.00 I have just completed reading this book a second time and I became compelled to write a review. ... |  Whatever Else Happened to the Egyptians?: From the Revolution to the Age of GlobalizationBest Price: $22.45 One would think the open doors policy was the only reason for the downslope of Egypt and... |  Mao (Routledge Historical Biographies)Best Price: $19.45 Was Mao the first red emperor or the last great Marxist leader? Mao Zedong was held in awe by... |  The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in AfghanistanBest Price: $7.14 In Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, a young adventurer named Daniel Dravot... |
 The Ancient Near East: Ancient History Series, Volume I (Ancient History)Best Price: $56.07 There are several good well-written introductions to the Ancient Near East currently available. ... |  Studying the Ancient Israelites: A Guide to Sources and MethodsBest Price: $11.80 Archaeology won't prove or disprove the Bible's truth claims. But archaeology, combined with... |  Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 2: Since 1877, 2nd EditionBest Price: $28.95 I bought this book a few years ago on the recommendation of a professor of labor history. ... |  The Secret History of al QaedaBest Price: $10.25 Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan provides a relatively short, yet multi-faceted and in-depth look at... |  Whose Land? Whose Promise?: What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the PalestiniansBest Price: $15.54 I have read the introduction and I was stopped immediately because of blatant error. This author... |
 Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A PrimerBest Price: $5.34 In recent years Ms. Bennis has become a marginally successful professional denigrator of the... |  The Zoo on the Road to Nablus: A Story of Survival from the West BankBest Price: $4.99 The last Palestinian zoo stands on a dusty, dead-end street in the once prosperous farming town... |  The First CrusadeBest Price: $4.99 A nicely produced reprint of the first volume of Runciman's famous series on the Crusades. ... |  The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean (California World History Library)Best Price: $19.75 The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the... |  Desiring ArabsBest Price: $15.30 Like the Byzantines who viewed unveiled women as prostitues or lower class women and thus... |
 Colonising EgyptBest Price: $18.01 This book can be a hard read, but it is brilliant. Of interest to anyone who wants to learn... |  The Politics of the Middle EastBest Price: $59.98 As a graduate student, I had the good fortune to have Professor Palmer in class. This particular... |  History and Culture of Ancient Western Asia and Egypt (History)Best Price: $34.97 This was a textbook in my first ancient near eastern history class in college. All the other... |  Voices of TerrorBest Price: $7.55 "Voices of Terror" is an important book. It does not have a narrative, simply some... |  The Temple in Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect ManBest Price: $7.43 Magnificent. This short book is work of genius. It is not surprising that academics ignored it... |
 The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Fifth EditionBest Price: $29.96 I am writing in response to the one review by a reader from Staten Island. As I have read the... |  Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/PalestineBest Price: $16.80 If you're jewish, you need to read this. It truly changed my view of the whole conflict, having... |  The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A HistoryBest Price: $29.90 This is a very informative work on the history of the conflict that is very easy to read. It is... |  Lessons of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah WarBest Price: $21.95 Before I buy this book I'd like to know a little more about it. So far I've read two other book... |  Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt (Penguin History)Best Price: $8.55 I found this book easy to read and interesting. I have several Joyce Tyldsley books and I have... |
 Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus TraditionBest Price: $19.59 An excellent, readable and rational argument for the historicity of the Genesis,and Exodus... |  On the War for Greek Freedom: Selections from the HistoriesBest Price: $6.50 Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and... |  Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled AgeBest Price: $6.99 I read the 1999 edition. It appears that the only difference between it and the 2005 edition is... |  Wanderings: History of the JewsBest Price: $27.10 "Each time the light returns and we are able to see the new world that has been created on... |  The Yom Kippur War: The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 (General Military)Best Price: $15.30 Author Simon Dunston has written a superb historical account of the the Arab -Israeli war of... |
 The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by DayBest Price: $14.95 The Egyptian Book of the Dead (This edition of the book joins Word and Image together for... |  Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)Best Price: $32.00 The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic... |  Syria: A Historical And Architectural GuideBest Price: $12.86 Judging a book by its cover is usually a dangerous practice. However, Ball and his publisher... |  Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of HieroglyphsBest Price: $42.86 i got this book for class i find egyptian writing intesting plus one of my favorite cultures... |  Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied IraqBest Price: $11.70 "Lying in bed near Rana was Hanna, fourteen years old. She had a gash on her right leg from... |
 Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the JewsBest Price: $2.00 A weekly magazine I read has a category of news that it calls "boring but important." ... |  The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of WarBest Price: $17.57 Like Gelvin's other general readership work, The Modern Middle East (Oxford University Press,... |  Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners: 10-CD Audio Program (Yale Language Series)Best Price: $64.99 I have been teaching Arabic for 3 years to my college students using Al Kitaab, with decent... |  The Long War Ahead and the Short War Upon UsBest Price: $7.53 Personally I think this book is good for a modern look as to what is going on with Islam and... |  Heroes Among Us: Firsthand Accounts of Combat from America's Most Decorated Warriors in Iraq and AfghanistanBest Price: $2.00 Wow, this book just blew me way. I was not the kind of person who loved reading and read during... |
 Egypt and the EgyptiansBest Price: $11.95 This book is a simple introduction for ancient egyptian hsitory.It is well organised and tells... |  When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under SiegeBest Price: $7.32 This book should be read by all of the Western world to gain a perspective on the ordinary... |  Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the PentagonBest Price: $6.00 Mr. Rossmiller presents an insightful look at the politicization of intelligence analysis in the... |  The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through AfghanistanBest Price: $4.49 Each book that I have read on Afghanistan takes a slightly different tact. I read many that... |  Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in IraqBest Price: $7.95 James Fallows, the Atlantic Monthly's national correspondent, produced a series of articles... |
 Forbidding Wrong in Islam: An Introduction (Themes in Islamic History)Best Price: $18.00 Michael Cook's classic study, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought... |  The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict, 3rd Edition (The Complete Idiot's Guide)Best Price: $4.97 Do not be fooled by the title, this book is provides a very good overview of the Middle East... |  Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil WarBest Price: $10.69 Ely's revelations about Free African Americans in Virginia living, working, interacting, and... |  Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied TerritoriesBest Price: $17.00 This work is a one- sided propaganda tract. It begins with a general claim which is false i.e.... |  The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times (Venture of Islam Vol. 3)Best Price: $29.68 This is an extremely intricate and thus difficult book to truly internalize and comprehend in... |
 Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57Best Price: $4.88 Have some kleenex handy. A very well written book. My husband loved it, too. |  Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and PeaceBest Price: $23.10 During his long reign (1953–1999), King Hussein of Jordan was one of the most dominant... |  The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Studies in Middle Eastern History)Best Price: $29.82 This is an excellent book. It is about the Harem, but not about fantasies or orientalist vision,... |  The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic WorldBest Price: $26.00 Lapidus has assembled a set of authors to write this nicely done summation of the Muslim world.... |  The Knights Templar of the Middle East: The Hidden History of the Islamic Origins of FreemasonryBest Price: $10.98 This review is well intentioned to HRH and the co-author. However, the book simply does not... |
 Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and BeyondBest Price: $6.58 The item arrived on time in good condition and was in excellent condition. I could not ask more... |  Awful Egyptians (Horrible Histories)Best Price: $7.35 | |||
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