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Cleopatra: The Queen who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by ALBERTO ANGELA
$34.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
One of Italy's most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war. Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is one of the most famous figures in hist ...Show more
Israel: A History by Anita Shapira
$29.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late 19th century to the present day. Anita Shapira's gripping narrative explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe against the backdrop of relations a ...Show more
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood by Justin Marozzi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great ha ...Show more
On the Chocolate TrailA Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao by Deborah R. Prinz
$35.95 AUD
Category: Middle East
The next time you pick up a piece of chocolate, consider that you are partaking in an aspect of Jewish history. Explore the surprising Jewish connections to chocolate in this historical and gastronomic adventure through cultures, countries, centuries and religions. Rabbi Deborah Prinz draws from her wor ...Show more
Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories by Ahron Bregman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula in 1967's brief but pivotal Six Day War. Cursed victory is the first complete history of the war's troubled aftermath - a military occupation of the Palestinian ter ...Show more
Israel: A History by Anita Shapira
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late 19th century to the present day. Anita Shapira's gripping narrative explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe against the backdrop of relations a ...Show more
Islamic Enlightenment by Christopher de Bellaigue
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Selected as a book of the year 2017 by the Times Literary Supplement and the Sunday Times ('At a time when the gulf between Islam and the West yawns distressingly wide, De Bellaigue's book is a welcome and surprising corrective' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times) ...Show more
Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution by Wendell Steavenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went to Cairo to cover the story. But the revolution defied historical precedent, and it defied the templates of storytelling. There was no single villain, no lone hero, no neat conclusion tha ...Show more
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
$36.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the ...Show more
Herzl's Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State by Professor of Political Theory Shlomo Avineri (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
$43.95 AUD
Category: Middle East
Theodor Herzl had been a successful Viennese journalist and a less successful playwright with no political ambitions. That changed in 1896, when he published "The Jewish State." In response to the wide resonance that the book received, Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in ...Show more
Mecca: The Sacred City by Ziauddin Sardar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
Mecca is the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction towards which Muslims turn when they pray and the site of pilgrimage which annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet Mecca's importance goes beyond religion. What happens in Mecca and how Musl ...Show more
Turkish Awakening: Behind the Scenes of Modern Turkey by Alev Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
Born in London to a Turkish mother and British father, Alev Scott moved to Istanbul to discover what it means to be Turkish in a country going through rapid political and social change, with an extraordinary past still linked to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and an ever more surprising present under the leaders ...Show more