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Candlewick Press
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©2022
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English
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"Yallah! From January to December, join some busy kids as they partake in traditions old and new. There's so much to do, whether it's learning to write Arabic or looking at hijab fashion sites while planning costumes for a local comic convention. With details as vivid as the scent of jasmine and honeysuckle perfume (made to remind Mom of Morocco), children bond with friends, honor tradition, and spend loving time with family. Accompanied by buoyant...
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First published in 1926, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is the fascinating and brutal account of the Arab Revolt of 1916 to 1918 by T. E. Lawrence, more famously known as "Lawrence of Arabia". Written, rewritten, and edited over a period of several years from 1919 to 1926, Lawrence recounts his time serving in the British Forces in North Africa when he was based in Wadi Rum. He describes his role assisting in the organization and carrying out of attacks...
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Newbery Medal Award volume 1949
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830L
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English
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Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
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2011
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English
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"A myth-shattering view of the medieval Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations, which preceded-and enabled-the European Renaissance. The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance. Inspired by the Koranic injunction...
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990L
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English
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4 stars
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A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from John Swansburg, Deputy Editor at SlateOne of the best-selling books of all time, Lew Wallace's enduring epic is a tale of revenge, betrayal, honor, compassion and the power of forgiveness, set during the life of Christ. At the beginning of the first century, Judah Ben-Hur lived as a prince, descended from the royal line of Judea and one of Jerusalem's most prosperous merchant families....
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Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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5 stars
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LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight. Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom, democracy and...
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The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Atlantic -- now updated to cover the latest developments in the Middle East In this groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. This...
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Pub. Date:
2008
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English
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In a remote and dusty corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an ancient community of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic—the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers, humble peddlers and rugged loggers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel,
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. "The Tragedy of the Korosko" (1898) is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialised a year earlier in The Strand magazine between May and December 1897. It was later adapted into a play Fires of Fate...
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PublicAffairs
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English
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Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region's politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled as the "Arab Spring" are yet to come. An insider to both American policy and the world of the Arab public, Marc Lynch shows that the fall of particular leaders...
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2014
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English
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A reassessment of France's long relationship with the Muslim world of North Africa documents the nineteenth-century armed colonization of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia against a backdrop of the Arab Spring and related political and cultural influences.
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Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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The Real History of Israel and the Palestinians No history is so disputed as the history of Israel. Some see Israel's creation as a dramatic act of justice for the Jewish people. Others insist that it was a crime against Palestine's Arabs. Author David Brog untangles the facts from the myths to reveal the truth about the Arab-Israeli conflict. In Reclaiming Israel's History you'll learn how the Jewish people have maintained a continual presence in...
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Skyhorse
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English
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An unparalleled insider's analysis of the Middle East as it is today. Six-years have passed, since the publication of Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth. The goal of that 2016 book was to provide the database to understand the contemporary Middle East. Yet, the Middle East of 2021 is not the Middle East of 2016. As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the shifting priorities...
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The shadda is the key difference between a pigeon (hamam) and a bathroom (hammam). Be careful, our professor advised, that you don't ask a waiter, 'Excuse me, where is the pigeon?'-or, conversely, order a roasted toilet . . . If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O'Neill recalls, you feel like a magician. If that foreign language is Arabic, you just...
15. Prior Regrets
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2021
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English
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A BOOK TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING...A STORY TOLD ACROSS TWO DECADES... Described as "beautiful, evocative writing" and "an enchanting tale" Prior Regrets tells the story of Mark Prior and Lauren Tesairi, and their attempts to navigate the hectic streets of Jerusalem, the varied characters who call North London home, and shared memories, faded by time. Eighteen years after their last contact, a lonely goodbye in a crumbling hostel, Lauren's unexpected...
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Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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The Trump Administration Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, tells the story of how the Abraham Accords-the historic deals between Israel and five Muslim nations-came to pass. For over a century, the Middle East has been locked in a series of bloody struggles. In 2020, the United States brokered an historic series of peace deals between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors, the first in a generation. The Abraham Accords normalized relations between...
17. Ibn Khaldun
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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"One of the Financial Times' Best Books of the Year: Critics' Picks" "One of Asian Review of Books' Books of the Year (Biography & Memoir)" Robert Irwin is senior research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a former lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. His many books include Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents and Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics, and the Sixties, as well as seven...
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Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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The One Resource with All the Facts You hear about Israel in the news regularly, but beyond the many opinions and preconceptions, do you really know what to make of the conflicts and controversies in the Middle East? What Should We Think About Israel? exposes the main current issues and provides well-researched objective facts to help you learn the truth about Israel's past, present, and future. This compilation from experts including Walter Kaiser,...
19. Tunisia
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Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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"Expert advice and tourist information covering Tunis, Sahara Desert, Djerba, Star Wars pilgrimages, Chott el Djerid salt lake, Sidi Bou Said, Kairouan, archaeological and heritage sites (Roman amphitheatre of El Jem, Ancient Carthage, Ribat of Monastir fort), museums, beaches, camel trekking, kitesurfing, wildlife, nightlife"--
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A bioweapon-a global epidemic-kicks off World War III in this explosive thriller from the author of Last Son of the War God. Derek Martell is in a dead-end career, manning a fuel point in Eastern Iraq. It's a far fall from a life of fortune and glory, but he's lucky to have any job at all. Until he wakes up after a sandstorm to find Doomsday is at hand. The apocalypse has started, and his invite was late. A global catastrophe is unfolding, an epidemic...