Middle East category: 7830 books
Honeymoon in Tehran
Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
BONUS: This edition contains a Honeymoon in Tehran discussion guide.
Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and...
by Lonely Planet, Daniel Robinson, Dan Savery Raz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Israel & the Palestinian Territories is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Discover the ruins of ancient Jericho, take an...
by Netanel Lorch
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Netanel Lorch, who fought as an officer in Jerusalem during Israel’s War of Independence and later founded the Israel Defense Forces’ Historical Section, offers a detailed military history of the years 1947-49. The book begins with the tensions of the British Mandate period in Palestine, including...
The Founding of Israel
The Journey to a Jewish Homeland from Abraham to the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
A chronological history of the Jewish people—from the earliest attempts to establish a homeland during Biblical times to the creation of Israel.
More than seventy years ago in 1948, the State of Israel came into being amidst great controversy. How did the state arise? What led to the founding...
The Templars
The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
**“Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.” – The Times, Book of the Year
A New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is “a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate...
by Vali Nasr
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
The New York Times bestseller: "Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes."—Max Rodenbeck, New York Review of Books
Profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr has become one of America's...
The Other Side of Israel
My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 2003, Susan Nathan moved from her comfortable home in Tel Aviv to Tamra, an Arab town in the northern part of Israel. Nathan had arrived in Israel four years earlier and had taught English and worked with various progressive social organizations. Her desire to help build a just and humane society...
The Israel Test
Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In this book, George Gilder asserts that widespread antagonism toward the current state of Israel springs from, like anti-Semitism everywhere, envy of superior accomplishment. Israel’s sudden rise as a world capitalist and technological power, he argues, stems in part from the Jewish "culture of...
Unholy Land
In Search of Hope in Israel/Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Traveling major highways and secondary roads, walking unpaved paths, the author recites contradictions of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, the Holy Land. Here, religion uneasily confronts politics and democracy, sublime nature undergoes militarization, and hospitality and...
by Raouf Shabayek
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Many people fall in love with the amazing cosmopolitan city of Dubai when they visit. Dubai offers a window into Arab culture, a relatively low crime rate, spectacular shopping, dining and wonderful opportunities for professionals. It is a major hub for the Middle East. There are no income tax responsibilities...
UAE - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Full of people who aim to combine the ancient and the modern, the UAE is an extremely rewarding place to visit. Set on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Gulf, the country was once a poor desert land, a confederation of tribal sheikhdoms on the periphery of the Arab world, subsisting on pearl diving...
by Grace Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
‘Working and Living in Saudi Arabia’ provides valuable cultural and practical business information necessary for all professionals working and travelling to Saudi Arabia, including those who may be working and living in other Middle East countries. It also addresses the many changes and opportunities...
Jasmine and Fire
A Bittersweet Year in Beirut
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then—even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New York City—Salma has had a...
Is This Your First War?
Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Less than a year before 9/11, Michael Petrou trekked through al Qaeda's backyard in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. He was back in Central Asia within weeks of the attacks -- this time as a reporter, slipping into Afghanistan as rockets and tracer bullets lit up the night sky, carrying notebooks, stolen...