On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines–and Future
Author: House, Karen ElliottPrice: $15.70Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2013-06-04T00:00:01ZPages:320Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0307473287ISBN:13:9780307473288With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of life inside this shrouded kingdom. Through anecdotes, observation, analysis, and extensive interviews, she navigates the maze in which…
The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland―Then, Now, Tomorrow (JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought)
Author: Troy, GilPrice: $32.45Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2018-04-01T00:00:01ZPages:608Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0827612559ISBN:13:9780827612556“Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book.”
Walls
Author: Frye, DavidPrice: $20.82Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2018TPages:304Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:0571348416ISBN:13:9780571348411For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, and beyond. They have accompanied the rise of cities, nations, and empires. And yet…
Pagan Portals – Sekhmet
Author: Dr Olivia, ChurchPrice: $12.95Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2022-01-28T00:00:01ZPages:120Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1789047137ISBN:13:9781789047134An invitation to come face to face with the incarnate female power of ancient Egypt. Sekhmet was ancient Egypt’s leonine Netjeret (Goddess) who embodied incarnate female power. Sekhmet brought plague and pestilence to the land as well as conferred healing and protection upon her followers. From her…
Winning a Debate with an Israel-Hater: How to Effectively Challenge Anti-Israel Extremists in Your Neighborhood
Author: Harris, Dr. MichaelPrice: $14.99Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2018-11-15T00:00:01ZPages:223Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0999412795ISBN:13:9780999412794It often happens in the middle of an otherwise pleasant day — you’re shopping, or walking across a college campus, and you encounter them. They’re holding signs that claim Israel is an “apartheid state” and charge Israel with committing “genocide” against Palestinians. They’re calling for boycotts against…
Gaza: A History
Author: Filiu, Jean-PierrePrice: $23.27Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2017-01-01T00:00:01ZPages:440Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:019062308XISBN:13:“Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed while simultaneously and paradoxically enduring prolonged neglect. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai desert on the one hand and the Mediterranean Sea on the other, Gaza was contested by the Pharaohs, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the…
One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
Author: Abunimah, AliPrice: $11.75Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2007-08-21T00:00:01ZPages:240Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0805086668ISBN:13:9780805086669A “visionary”* approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—one state for two peoples—that is more urgent than ever It is by now a commonplace that the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian violence is to divide the territory in two. All efforts at resolving the conflict have come down to…
They Must Go
Author: Kahane, Rabb MeirPrice: $13.93Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2012-09-19T00:00:01ZPages:288Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1478388919ISBN:13:9781478388913“Every day,” writes Rabbi Meir Kahane, “the Arabs of Israel move closer to becoming a majority. Are we [Israel] committed to national suicide? Should we allow demography, geography, and democracy to push Israel closer to the abyss? According to Rabbi Kahane, Israel can only be sustained by…
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
Author: Blumenthal, MaxPrice: $7.14Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2013-10-01T00:00:01ZPages:512Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1568586345ISBN:13:9781568586342The award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Republican Gomorrah assesses the takeover of Israel by extremists from the Jewish Right, examining how they have restricted constitutional protections for minorities and dissidents and how they are being bankrolled by American right-wing interests. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)
What Price Israel?: 50th Anniversary Edition 1953-2003
Author: Lilienthal, Alfred M.Price: $17.95Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2004-10-01T00:00:01ZPages:237Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0741419270ISBN:13:9780741419279No summary available.
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels (Modern Library (Paperback))
Author: Stark, FreyaPrice: $18.60Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2001-07-24T00:00:01ZPages:320Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0375757538ISBN:13:9780375757532Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation’s most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only a single…
Remember the Liberty!: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas
Author: Nelson, Phillip F.Price: $19.95Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2017-06-08T00:00:01ZPages:302Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1634241088ISBN:13:9781634241083Nelson explores how a sitting U.S. president– Lyndon Johnson– collaborated with Israeli leaders in the fomentation of a war between Israel and their Arab neighbors. Planned to ensure a victory for Israel, and include the acquisition of additional land, it involved a vicious attack on a U.S….
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)
Author: Stamatopoulou-Robbins, SophiaPrice: $28.61Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2019-12-10T00:00:01ZPages:344Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1503610896ISBN:13:9781503610897Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Palestinians are obliged to forge their lives. To speak of waste siege is to describe a series of conditions, from smelling wastes to negotiating military infrastructures, from…
DK Jerusalem, Israel and the Palestinian Territories (Travel Guide)
Author: DK TravelPrice: $14.29Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2022-02-15T00:00:01ZPages:288Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0241462525ISBN:13:9780241462522Whether you want to float in the Dead Sea, visit the ruby-colored city of Petra, or tuck into Tel-Aviv’s sumptuous food scene, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Jerusalem, Israel and the Palestinian territories have to offer. Imbued with a fascinating mix of…
NIV, Chronological Study Bible, Hardcover: Holy Bible, New International Version
Author: Thomas NelsonPrice: $19.87Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2014-04-29T00:00:01ZPages:1664Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1401680119ISBN:13:9781401680114“The Chronological Study Bible presents the text of the Bible in the order of events as they unfolded, with notes, articles, and graphics that display the authentic history and culture of Bible times.”–back cover.
Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis
Author: Bartov, OmerPrice: $34.95Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2023-08-10T00:00:01ZPages:264Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1350332313ISBN:13:9781350332317This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with each other, whilst convincingly arguing for…
Israel’s Secret Wars: A History of Israel’s Intelligence Services
Author: Black, IanPrice: $13.50Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:1992TPages:634Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0802132863ISBN:13:9780802132864A documented, comprehensive history of all three of Israel’s intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s, up to the present.
Six-Day War 1967: Operation Focus and the 12 hours that changed the Middle East (Air Campaign, 10)
Author: Aloni, ShlomoPrice: $25.00Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2019-06-18T00:00:01ZPages:96Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1472835271ISBN:13:9781472835277The story of how the Israeli Force achieved one of the most audacious and important air power victories in history, wiping out enemy air forces more than twice its own size in a single morning. This new illustrated study examines the planning, execution and aftermath of Operation Focus…
One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel
Author: Karmi, GhadaPrice: $17.56Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2023-04-20T00:00:01ZPages:208Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0745348319ISBN:13:9780745348315Palestine has been under attack for three-quarters of a century. The ‘peace process’ that has favored the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internationally exposed as masking the expansion of Israel’s apartheid regime. 75 years ago, Ghada Karmi was violently forced from her home…
Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and peacemaking in the Middle East
Author: Aly, Abdel Monem SaidPrice: $55.64Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2022-08-18T00:00:01ZPages:504Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1350321389ISBN:13:9781350321380Lasting over 120 years, the Arab-Israeli conflict involves divergent narratives about history, national identities, land ownership, injustices and victimhood. Domestic forces and actors as well as international and regional dynamics have ensured the conflict’s durability. A distinguished team of authors comprising an Israeli, a Palestinian and…
Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Author: Bard, Mitchell G.Price: $14.99Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2016-12-12T00:00:01ZPages:400Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1537152726ISBN:13:9781537152721In the last sixty years, Israel has faced seven different wars. During that time, the country has been under immense scrutiny and been the recipient of false accusations. This leaves the public with many questions: Does Israel want peace with the Arab nations? How do Islamic views…
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
Author: Morris, BennyPrice: $22.92Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2009-03-23Pages:544Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:0300151128ISBN:13:9780300151121This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict gives an account of both the military engagements and the war’s political dimension. The author probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation.
Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
Author: Sokatch, DanielPrice: $18.05Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2021-10-19T00:00:01ZPages:384Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:1635573874ISBN:13:9781635573879From the expert who understands both sides of the world’s most complex, controversial conflicts, a modern-day Guide for the Perplexed–a primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian issue. “Can’t you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?” This is the question Daniel Sokatch…
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
Author: Mead, Walter RussellPrice: $14.40Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2022-07-05T00:00:01ZPages:672Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:0375414045ISBN:13:9780375414046A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and, in doing so, explores how fundamental debates about American identity drive our country’s foreign policy. In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists…
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Author: Gordis, DanielPrice: $31.53Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2016-10-18T00:00:01ZPages:560Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:0062368745ISBN:13:9780062368744Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, “one of the most respected Israel analysts” (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem. Israel is a tiny state,…
Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)
Author: Baconi, TareqPrice: $19.20Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2018-05-15T00:00:01ZPages:368Binding:HardcoverISBN:10:0804797412ISBN:13:9780804797412Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there. Demonized in media and policy debates, various accusations and critical assumptions have been used to justify extreme military action against Hamas. The reality of Hamas is, of course, far more complex. Neither a democratic…
Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)
Author: Baconi, TareqPrice: $19.29Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2022-05-03T00:00:01ZPages:368Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1503632628ISBN:13:9781503632622Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there. Demonized in media and policy debates, various accusations and critical assumptions have been used to justify extreme military action against Hamas. The reality of Hamas is, of course, far more complex. Neither a democratic…
Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
Author: Shehadeh, RajaPrice: $10.39Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2008-06-03T00:00:01ZPages:224Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:1416569669ISBN:13:9781416569664“A rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” —Jimmy Carter From Palestine’s leading writer, a lyrical, elegiac account of one man’s wanderings through the landscape he loves, once pristine, now forever changed by settlements and walls—now with a new afterword by the author. “I…
The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Author: Gelvin, James L.Price: $32.99Buy NowCategory:Middle East HistoryPublication Date:2021-04-22T00:00:01ZPages:334Binding:PaperbackISBN:10:110873863XISBN:13:Now in its fourth edition, James L. Gelvin’s award-winning account of the conflict between Israel and Palestine offers a compelling, accessible and current introduction for students and general readers. The book traces the struggle from the emergence of nationalism among the Jews of Europe and the Arab…