 | State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East by Roger Owen
Buy new: £18.47 / Used from: £17.00 Readable, scholarly introduction to the major political issues & theories in Middle Eastern studies.
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 | Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (The Contemporary Middle East) by Zachary Lockman
Buy new: £19.94 / Used from: £11.65 From a "post-colonial" perspective, Lockman examines how the region and particularly Islam have been portrayed in (mostly) western media & scholarship.
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 | A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
Buy used from: £16.92 Or, how the Troubles began: Anglo-French colonial rivalry and collaboration; American idealism; ambiguous reactions to Zionism; divide and rule among the Arabs.
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 | The Origins of Arab Nationalism by R Khalidi
Buy new: £19.48 / Used from: £16.60 Sweeping analysis of the origins of the political movement that would dominate the mid-century Arab lands.
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 | Ataturk: The Rebirth of a Nation by Patrick Kinross
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £7.00 Definitive biography of the region's outstanding figure in the early 20th century.
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 | State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) by Homa Katouzian
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £32.24 Why Iranian politics lurched from despotism to vacuum in the first half of the 20th century.
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 | Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics) by Wilfred Thesiger
Buy used from: £7.03 The stiff-upper-lipped Englishman Thesiger is our guide in the Empty Quarter of Arabia: requiem for a vanished way of life.
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 | A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics) by Alistair Horne
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £6.70 The tragedy of the pieds-noirs: white settlers overrun by the forces of history (anti-colonial nationalism) and betrayed by the mother country.
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 | The Arab-Israeli Conflict (Seminar Studies In History) by Dr Kirsten Schulze
Buy new: £12.68 / Used from: £11.78 Balanced account of the region's most durable conflict.
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 | Nasser at War: Arab Images of the Enemy by Laura James
Buy new: £44.65 / Used from: £32.00 Shifting political alliances and perspectives as seen through the propaganda of the region's most important leader of the 1950s and 60s.
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 | A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £4.83 Thematic approach to Iraqi history, focusing on conflicting ideas of the role of the state in creating, representing and protecting Iraqis.
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 | The War for Lebanon, 1970-85 (Cornell Paperbacks) by Itamar Rabinovich
Buy used from: £18.95 Demise of the moderately successful state of Lebanon, victim of a modern, tragic version of the Great Game.
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 | Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution by NR Keddie
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £9.20 The Islamic Revolution in its political context.
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 | Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W. Said
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.72 Impassioned essay which argues that fundamentalist Islam is, to a great extent, a bogeyman created by media and politicians.
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 | Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians by Baruch Kimmerling
Buy new: £12.75 / Used from: £0.01 Heavily critical analysis of Israel's bellicose former leader, and the failure of the political current he represents.
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 | The Collapse of Middle East Peace:the Rise & Fall of the Oslo Peace Accords by Dennis J. Deeb II
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £10.89 Is the very idea of a peace "process" doomed to failure?
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 | Intifada: The Long Day of Rage by David Pratt
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.05 Journalist's account of the social and ideological issues behind the seemingly permanent state of uprising in the Palestinian territories.
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 | The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £7.25 Doorstop-sized recap of the region's simmering conflicts and problems, and where they came from.
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 | The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud by Said K. Aburish
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.69 Murky history of the Saudi royal family.
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 | The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace by Ali A. Allawi
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £5.00 Insider's account of where the American-led invasion went wrong.
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 | Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East by Mohammed El-Nawawy
Buy used from: £1.71 Now slightly dated examination of the media upstart.
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 | Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and Society
Buy new: £19.48 / Used from: £19.45 Gender roles in transition.
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 | Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.99 Autobiography mixed with polemic from the courageous, indomitable Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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 | Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States (SOAS Middle East Issues)
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £5.65 The new beacons of the Middle East: overflowing with oil money, but what future for these hyper-consumerist mini-states?
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 | The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today: Pt. 1 (Musical Performance)
Buy new: £21.84 / Used from: £12.25 Israel's multiculturalism revealed in its musical output.
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