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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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Black Wave

By Kim Ghattas ,

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Proof of Life: Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East
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Proof of Life

By Daniel Levin ,

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By John Perkins ,

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Muslims and Crusaders: Christianity's Wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382, from the Islamic Sources
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Muslims and Crusaders

By Niall Christie ,

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The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
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The Last Shah

By Ray Takeyh ,

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The Ottomans 1700-1923: An Empire Besieged
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The Ottomans 1700-1923

By Virginia Aksan ,

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The Shark Caller
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The Shark Caller

By Zillah Bethell ,

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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings

By Amanda H. Podany ,

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The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire
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The Politics of Persecution

By Mitri Raheb ,

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Understanding 'Sectarianism': Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Modern Arab World
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Understanding 'Sectarianism'

By Fanar Haddad ,

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Frontline Syria: From Revolution to Proxy War
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Frontline Syria

By David L. Phillips ,

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Nomads in the Middle East
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Nomads in the Middle East

By Beatrice Forbes Manz ,

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The Arabian Desert in English Travel Writing Since 1950: A Barren Legacy?
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The Arabian Desert in English Travel Writing Since 1950

By Jenny Walker ,

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Beirut Spy
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Beirut Spy

By Said K. Aburish ,

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Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East
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Arabs and Israelis

By Abdel Monem Said Aly , Shai Feldman , Khalil Shikaki

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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance
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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

By Elizabeth F. Thompson ,

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After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa
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After the Arab Uprisings

By Shamiran Mako , Valentine M. Moghadam ,

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The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea
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The Problem of Democracy

By Shadi Hamid ,

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Quest for Democracy: Liberalism in the Modern Arab World
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Quest for Democracy

By Line Khatib ,

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Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy
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Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy

By Mohammad Ali Kadivar ,

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The Disoriented
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The Disoriented

By Amin Maalouf , Frank Wynne (translator) ,

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They All Made Peace - What Is Peace? The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the New Imperial Order
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They All Made Peace - What Is Peace? The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the New Imperial Order

By Jonathan Conlin (editor) , Ozan Ozavci (editor) ,

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Butterfly of the Night
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Butterfly of the Night

By Haydar Karataş , Caroline Stockford (translator) ,

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A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City
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A Social History of Modern Tehran

By Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi ,

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Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
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Before the West

By Ayse Zarakol ,

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The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
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The Slow Road to Tehran

By Rebecca Lowe ,

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Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization
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Powering Empire

By On Barak ,

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Do No Harm
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Do No Harm

By Jack Jordan ,

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The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
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The Making of the Modern Middle East

By Jeremy Bowen ,

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Bahari: Recipes From an Omani Kitchen and Beyond
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Bahari

By Dina Macki ,

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Maydan: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond
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Maydan

By Rose Previte , Marah Stets ,

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Sofreh: A Contemporary Approach to Classic Persian Cuisine
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Sofreh

By Nasim Alikhani , Theresa Gambacorta ,

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Houses Built on Sand: Violence, Sectarianism and Revolution in the Middle East
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Houses Built on Sand

By Simon Mabon ,

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From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium
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From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium

By Mario Baghos ,

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