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  • The Wages of Oil

    Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE

    par Michael Herb ...
    The contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible futures facing the smaller states of the Gulf. Dubai's rulers dream of creating a truly global business center, a megalopolis of many millions attracting immigrants in great waves from near and far. Kuwait, meanwhile, has the most spirited and influential parliament in any of the oil-rich Gulf monarchies.In The ... En savoir plus

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  • Princess More Tears to Cry

    par Jean Sasson ...
    Collections Livre 4 - Princess Series
    When Jean Sasson’s book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller. It sold to 43 countries and spent 13 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Now, in this long-awaited, compelling new book, Sasson and the Princess ‘Sultana’ return to tell the world what it means to be a Saudi woman today.Through advances in education and ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Inside the Kingdom

    My Life in Saudi Arabia

    Osama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of Saudi women.On September 11th, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her ex-brother-in-law was involved in these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • The War of the Three Gods

    Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam

    par Peter Crawford ...
    The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century-with its chief focus on the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius (AD 610641)-a pivotal and dramatic time in world history. The Eastern Roman Empire was brought to the very brink of extinction by the Sassanid Persians before Heraclius managed to inflict a crushing defeat on the Sassanids with ... En savoir plus

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  • Sleeping with the Devil

    How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

    par Robert Baer ...
    “Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?”In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil, former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Dream Palace of the Arabs

    A Generation's Odyssey

    par Fouad Ajami ...
    From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving together the strands of a tumultuous century in Arab ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • A Woman in Arabia

    The Writings of the Queen of the Desert

    par Gertrude Bell ...
    A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner HerzogGertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

  • Dear World

    A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace

    par Bana Alabed ...
    **“A story of love and courage amid brutality and terror, this is the testimony of a child who has endured the unthinkable.” —J.K. Rowling*“I’m very afraid I will die tonight.” —*Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 2, 2016*“Stop killing us.” —*Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 6, 2016“I just want to live without fear.” —Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 12, 2016When seven-year-old Bana Alabed took to Twitter to ... En savoir plus

    $19.50 CAD

  • Critical Lives: Muhammad

    par Yahiya Emerick ...
    Muhammad was a religious visionary and political leader. Raised in the harsh Arabian Peninsula and orphaned while still a child, this unlikely leader and military genius received a calling to transform his society from a collection of raiding tribes into one of the world's most progressive societies. His message of monotheism and righteousness motivated an entire people to abandon idolatry and ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Ottoman Empire

    par Charles Horne ...
    Constantinople, the Turkish capital, the mysterious, ancient, ever-flourishing city, sacred alike to Christian and Mahometan, stands in its wondrous beauty upon European shores; yet Turkey is an Asiatic State. Her story belongs to Asia, the world of dreamy fancy and lurid legend, not of sober fact and accurately dated history. Hence one can speak of Turkey only after the fashion of her own clime, ... En savoir plus

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  • Dispatches from the Arab Spring

    Understanding the New Middle East

    Modifié par Paul Amar, Vijay Prashad ...
    The Arab Spring unleashed forces of liberation and social justice that swept across North Africa and the Middle East with unprecedented speed, ferocity, and excitement. Although the future of the democratic uprisings against oppressive authoritarian regimes remains uncertain in many places, the revolutionary wave that started in Tunisia in December 2010 has transformed how the world sees Arab ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Penguin's Song

    par Hassan Daoud ...
    Traduit par Marilyn Booth ...
    "I loved this book when I read it in Arabic. The Penguin's Song is a classic novel of the Lebanese civil war."--Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman"Sixteen years after appearing in Daoud's native Lebanon, this elegiac novel has finally arrived in English . . . Daoud's novel seems to have inherted its sensibilities--its recursive and dense sentences, its damaged narrator, its poignant ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus