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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist
£17.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780984042999 | ISBN 10: 0984042997
Beginning in Tunisia and spreading across the Middle East and North Africa, everyday citizens stepped into the streets, staking their claim to a democratic future. The image of these protests captured the imagination of the world. Revolution by Love ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848859272 | ISBN 10: 1848859279
Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with the Arabian Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycl ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844672806 | ISBN 10: 1844672808
A passionate meditation on contemporary Arab identity. Before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir was one of Lebanon’s foremost public intellectuals. In Being Arab, a thought-provoking assessment of Arab identity, he calls on the people ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809709 | ISBN 10: 1408809702
In the middle of the First World War, the British War Cabinet approved and issued a statement in the form of a letter that encouraged the settlement of the Jewish people in Palestine. Signed by the Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the Balfour Declar ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801215 | ISBN 10: 1408801213
The fascinating story of how an English scholar brought Arab learning to the West and rescued it from the Dark Ages. For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely ab ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780867196733 | ISBN 10: 0867196734
In this autobiography-meets-graphic-novel, Beirut-born lecturer and writer Toufic El Rassi illustrates the daily prejudice and discrimination experienced by Muslims and Arabs in modern American society. Drawing from his personal history, Tou ... more
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