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  • Left-Handed in an Islamic World

    An Anthropologist's Journey into the Middle East

    by John P. Mason ...
    A social anthropologist recounts his time living and working in the Middle East.In Left-Handed in the Islamic World, the author, a social anthropologist, shares stories of Arabs he met and lived with, covering a period from 1968 to 2012. Lawrence of Arabia serves as an inspiration for the journey. Throughout the book the author calls upon a significant amount of history to give a background and to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-ending War

    Living Bravely Through a Never-ending War

    by Deborah Ellis ...
    Since its publication in 2000, hundreds of thousands of children all over the world have read and loved The Breadwinner. By reading the story of eleven-year-old Parvana and her struggles living under the terror of the Taliban, young readers came to know the plight of children in Afghanistan.But what has happened to Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Saudi Arabia

    Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future

    by Karen Elliott House ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabia—as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then publisher of The Wall Street Journal—an important and timely book that explores all facets of life in this shrouded Kingdom: its tribal past, its complicated present, its precarious future.Through observation, anecdote, extensive interviews, ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • The Home That Was Our Country

    A Memoir of Syria

    by Alia Malek ...
    At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building, past and present, Alia portrays the Syrians-the Muslims, Christians, Jews, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bitter Roots Tender Shoots

    The Uncertain Fate Of Afghanistan's Women

    by Sally Armstrong ...
    Eight years after the Taliban was ousted from government, an insurgency rages in Afghanistan, drug barons and war lords rule the turf, and the truth remains unspoken. In Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots: The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan's Women, author Sally Armstrong confronts unspoken truths and unravels the threads that are strangling Afghanistan's attempts to join the twenty-first century. A ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Veiled Courage

    Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance

    by Cheryl Benard ...
    In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman’s slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and incredible that the sole effective civil resistance to Taliban rule was ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Strong Horse

    Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations

    by Lee Smith ...
    In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world, offering advice for America’s future success in the region.Seeking the motivation behind the September 11 attacks, Smith moved to Cairo, where he discovered that the standard explanation—a clash of East and West—was simply not the case. Middle East conflicts ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Inside the Kingdom

    by Robert Lacey ...
    Following on his 1982 classic, The Kingdom, British journalist and bestselling author Robert Lacey offers penetrating insights into the complex country of Saudi Arabia. Taking the reader from the dramatic seizure of the Grand Mosque in Jeddah in 1979 to the deepening U.S.-Saudi relations during the Persian Gulf War and the increasing alienation of such radical fundamentalists as Osama bin Laden, ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • A Deadly Triangle

    Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India

    by William Dalrymple ...
    An eminent historian looks to the present and future of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws from the longest war in its history. THE BROOKINGS ESSAY: In the spirit of its commitment to high-quality, independent research, the Brookings Institution has commissioned works on major topics of public policy by distinguished authors, including Brookings scholars. The Brookings Essay is a multi-platform ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • We Are Still Here

    Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard

    Edited by Nahid Shahalimi ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERA collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban.**After decades of significant progress, the prospects of women and girls in Afghanistan are once again dependent on radical Islamists who reject gender equality. When the United States announced the end of their twenty-year occupation and the Taliban seized ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Come from the Shadows

    The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan

    by Terry Glavin ...
    Come from the Shadows is not about the Afghanistan we may think we know. It is not about the country depicted in urgent dispatches from embedded reporters; it isn't about the country evoked by anti-war protestors or the one that figures in heated political controversies over the treatment of prisoners. Instead, this is a book about the Afghanistan that lies "outside the wire," far from the Taliban ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Arabs, 6th Edition

    A Contemporary Guide to Arab Society

    by Margaret K. Nydell ...
    The definitive guide to understanding Arab culture for three decades.For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied culture. Covering all aspects of Arab life, from religion and society to social norms and communication styles, this all-encompassing guide ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD