Book by Thubron, Colin

Darius Bakhtiar, chief of homicide in Teheran, is torn between his love for his country and scorn for the religious fanatics who maintain a stronghold on its citizenry as he investigates the recent...

"A remarkable look at Iran through the lenses of 23 women photographers, at a moment in history when Iranian women are fighting for their rights with courage and determination. Breathing Space...

One of the founders of the state of Israel, Golda Meir (1898-1978) was Israel's ambassador to the USSR in 1948-49, subsequently served as Israel's Minister of Labor and Foreign Minister, and in 1969...

Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family...

"A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East. Origins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia...

"In Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics. To show how shifting relations between...

Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and...

It's time to go to market, so Nasreddine loads up the donkey and sets off with his father. But when onlookers criticize his father for riding while Nasreddine walks, the boy is ashamed. The following...

Kay Peter Jankrift. Copyright 2007 By Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 149-156) And Index.

Prominent Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg offers a penetrating and provocative look at how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism, threatening the prospects for peace and...

Text: English

This collection of original essays examines the relationship between Islam, the nature of state projects, and the position of women in the modern nation states of the Middle East and South Asia...

Series: School of Oriental & African Studies Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press (March 11, 1982) Language: English ISBN-10: 0197136028

For more than seven centuries, most of the Near East was part of the Roman Empire. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological material and both well-known and neglected sources, Issac here reassesses...

It seems odd that today, as the nations of Eastern Europe restore diplomatic ties to Israel, the Vatican still refuses to have normal relations with it. But, as Sergio Minerbi writes in this...

A remarkable collection of metalwork from the Mediterranean, Iraq, Iran, and the Indian subcontinent, published here for the first time.This volume, the latest in the series on the treasures of The...

When the young Hussein became the King of Jordan in 1953, conventional wisdom held that his days were numbered. As the embodiment of the socially conservative, pro-Western Jordanian state, he seemed...

There are some 200 Islamic seals and talismans in the Ashmolean Museum. They date from the eighth to the nineteenth century and come from a wide area stretching from Egypt to north-west India.