Middle East from Books of the World

The Harafish
by Naguib Mahfouz; Naguib Mahfuz; Najib Mahfouz; Najib Mahfuz; Najīb Maḥfūẓ; Catherine Cobham (trans)
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- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- April 1995
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385423357
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$14.95
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New York: Anchor Books, April 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight dogear to top front corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 406 pages.
An epic novel that chronicles the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family: a family that moves, over many generations, from the height… Read more Item Price
$14.95

North African Cooking : Exotic Delights from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt
by Hilary Walden
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- Near Fine
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- September 1995
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1853487015
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$15.95
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London: New Burlington Books, September 1995. Hardcover. Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket spine faded, otherwise clean and bright. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 128 pages. 100 recipes. Color illustrations. Item Price
$15.95

The Discovery of Ancient Egypt
by Alberto Siliotti
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Fine
- Published
- 1998
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 8880953206
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$29.95
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Boston & Chermignon, Switzerland: White Star, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Dust stains to top edge. Jacket clean and bright. No tears, folds or creases. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 359 pages. Lavishly illustrated. 14.25 x 10.25 x 1.3 inches. 6.75 pounds. Heavy item: extra charges for expedited or international… Read more Item Price
$29.95

A History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1991
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0674395654
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$7.95
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Cambridge: Belknap Press, March 1991. Hardcover. First Edition (not stated). Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Foxing to top edge. Spine ends bumped. Spine straight and tight. Light shelfwear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxii + 551 pages.
A History of the Arab Peoples covers not only political history,… Read more Item Price
$7.95

Midaq Alley
by Naguib Mahfouz; Naguib Mahfuz; Najib Mahfouz; Najib Mahfuz; Najīb Maḥfūẓ; Trevor Le Gassick (trans)
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1975
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 9774240588
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$6.45
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Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1975. Paperback. Fourth Printing, 1988. Very Good. Gift inscription to title page. Text unmarked. Spine cocked. Heavy reading wear to covers and edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xi + 246 pages.
Translation of: Zuqāq al-Midaqq. Item Price
$6.45

The Search
by Naguib Mahfouz; Naguib Mahfuz; Najib Mahfouz; Najib Mahfuz; Najīb Maḥfūẓ; Mohamed Islam (trans), Magdi Wahba (ed)
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1987
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 9774241606
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Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1987. Paperback. Third Printing, 1988. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Spine cocked and creased. Reading wear to covers and edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 126 pages.
Translation of: al-Ṭarīq. Item Price
$9.95

A History of Iraq, Third Edition
by Charles Tripp
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Third Edition
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- September 2007
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 052170247X
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$18.95
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, September 2007. Trade Paperback. Third Edition. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 386 pages. Item Price
$18.95

A History of Iraq, Second Edition
by Charles Tripp
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Second Edition
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- May 2002
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 052152900X
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$8.95
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, May 2002. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light edge and corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxii + 324 pages.
Since its establishment by the British in the 1920s, Iraq has witnessed the rise and fall of successive authoritarian regimes, competing ruthlessly… Read more Item Price
$8.95

A Concise History of the Middle East, Fourth Edition, Revised and Updated
by Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr.
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Fourth Edition, Revised and Updated
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- 1991
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0813311179
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$16.95
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Boulder: Westview Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Light rubbing and corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiv + 465 pages; illustrations and maps. Item Price
$16.95

What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
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- New
- Published
- 2003
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060516054
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New York: HarperCollins / Perennial, 2003. Trade Paperback. New. Pristine inside and out. Not a remainder. Not damaged. 186 pages.
For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of… Read more Item Price
$16.45

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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- Used - Fine
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- November 2008
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0812979303
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$12.45
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New York: Random House, November 2008. Trade Paperback. Full number line. Fine. Slight corner wear, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 380 pages.
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students… Read more Item Price
$12.45

Hora (Songs and Dances of Israel)
by Oranim Zabar Israeli Troupe; Geula Gill; Fred Berk
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1961
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- Photocopy
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$7.20
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New York: Elektra EKL 186, 1961. Photocopy of the 24 page pamphlet inserted with the Elektra 33 rpm record EKL 186. Contains directions for the dances by Fred Berk and texts of the songs in Hebrew (transliterated) with English translations inserted with the Elektra 33 rpm record EKL 186. Photocopy of the pamphlet only, does NOT include the phonograph recording.… Read more Item Price
$7.20

Honor Among Thieves : A Novel
by Jeffrey Archer
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
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- July 1993
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060179457
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New York: HarperCollins, July 1993. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Very Good cover. Interior lightly tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light edgewear and half-inch tear to lower rear hinge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 381 pages. Item Price
$7.45

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
by Anthony Shadid
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
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- February 2012
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0547134665
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$19.95
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Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, February 2012. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in an As New jacket. Spine tail lightly bumped, otherwise pristine inside and out. Nor from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 311 pages. Item Price
$19.95

A Brief History of Islam (Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)
by Tamara Sonn
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- Used - Fine
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- June 2004
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1405109009
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Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, June 2004. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xviii + 203 pages.
A concise and absorbing account of Islamic history and of Islam's role in today's global society. This book spans Islamic history from the life… Read more Item Price
$19.95

The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
by John Barth
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- Used - Fine
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- February 1992
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385422202
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$18.95
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New York: Anchor Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. 2nd printing. Fine. Unmarked. Light toning to page edges, otherwise As New. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 573 pages.
This is the story of Simon Behler, a popular journalist whose career has peaked. In 1980 he is lost overboard while… Read more Item Price
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In an Antique Land
by Amitav Ghosh
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Indian Paperback Edition
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- 2000
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 817530040X
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New Delhi: Permanent Black / Ravi Dayal, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Indian Paperback Edition. No additional printings listed. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Rear cover has sticker from Giggles Bookshop and three-inch crease at bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 393 pages.
An ethnography in narrative form. Combining shrewd observations… Read more Item Price
$19.95

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
by Craig Unger
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- Used - Near Fine
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- October 2004
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0743253396
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$12.95
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New York: Scribner. October 2004. Trade Paperback. Second printing per number line. Near Fine. Lightly tanned. Text unmarked. Slight corner wear. Old price sticker. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. ix + 370 pages. This book explains the impact of the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud on American foreign policy, business,… Read more Item Price
$12.95

Late Antiquity : Crisis and Transformation (The Great Courses, 3480, DVD)
by Thomas F. X. Noble
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- Near Fine
- Published
- 2008
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- DVD
- ISBN 10
- 1598034901
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$74.95
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Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Compnay, 2008. DVD. Thirty-six 30-minute lectures on six Fine DVDs in the original case along with a Very Good 172-page paperback Course Guidebook. Disks show only slight signs of prior use; no scratches. Slight shelfwear to case. Guidebook has two pages of vocabulary written in the "notes" pages at the end, otherwise Fine. Not from a library.… Read more Item Price
$74.95

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Illustrated by E. Mackinstry
by Elizabeth Mackinstry
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- September 1935
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- Hardcover
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$39.95
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New York: Macmillan. Hardcover. September 1935. First Edition / no additional printings listed. Green cloth over boards with black lettering and lamp decoration to front cover. Yellow endpapers. Lavishly illustrated. Very Good book / no dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown. Text block unmarked. Binding tight. Fading to spine and both covers, but black lettering is still dark. Not from… Read more Item Price
$39.95