The Middle East and Islamic World Reader
By: Marvin E. Gettleman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The Muslim world is tremendously rich and diverse, yet few Westerners are familiar with the writing…
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1. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
By: Chris Hedges
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment… read more
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"There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege."-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
"The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living."-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
"Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have ma…"-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
"Until there is a common vocabulary and a shared historical memory, there is no peace in any society, only an absence of war... The search for a common narrative must, at times, be forced upon a socie…"-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
2. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror Half a century ago, the United States overthrew … read more
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3. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
By: Tamim Ansary
3.87
Format: 144 pages,
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civil… read more
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4. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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5. القرآن الكريم
By: Anonymous
4.38
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally … read more
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"We are nearer to him than his jugular vein."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
6. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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7. A Concise History of the Middle East
By: Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. , Lawrence Davidson
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The eighth edition of Arthur Goldschmidt's widely acclaimed text has been extensively revised to re… read more
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8. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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9. War: How Conflict Shaped Us
By: Margaret MacMillan
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Is peace an aberration? The bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an… read more
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10. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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11. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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12. What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
By: Leah Price
3.40
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggeratedDo you worry that you've lost patience for a… read more
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"Whatever life lessons we can glean from having read, perhaps being middle of a book is what really counts as living."-Leah Price, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
13. A History of Islam in 21 Women
By: Hossein Kamaly
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the g… read more
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14. The Middle East and Islamic World Reader
By: Marvin E. Gettleman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The Muslim world is tremendously rich and diverse, yet few Westerners are familiar with the writing… read more
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