My Egypt Archive
ISBN: PB: 9780300276800,
ISBN: HB: 9780300260991,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
180 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
180 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt.
An unmatched contemporary history of authoritarian politics and an unflinching examination of the politics of h...
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What Really Went Wrong
The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9780300259575,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
An ambitious revisionist history of the modern Middle East.
"What Really Went Wrong" offers a fresh and incisive assessment of American foreign policy's impact on the history and politics of the modern Middle East. Looking at flashpoints in Iranian...
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Battleground
10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9780300263428,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
320 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 13 maps
320 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 13 maps
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East.
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instea...
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Bin Laden Papers
How the Abbottabad Raid revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, its Leader and his Family
ISBN: PB: 9780300270426,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
384 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 2 black&white illus., 2 maps
384 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 2 black&white illus., 2 maps
An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder – told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle.
Usama Bin Laden's greatest fear was not capture or death, but the exposure of al-Qaeda's secrets. At great risk to themsel...
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£10.99
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Syriac World
In Search of a Forgotten Christianity
ISBN: HB: 9780300253535,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 68 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 68 black&white illus.
A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity over three thousand years.
Syriac is often referred to as the third main language of Christianity, along with Latin and Greek, and it remains a foundational classical, literary, and religious language t...
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£25.00
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Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300267495,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
288 pp., 29,0x23,0 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.
288 pp., 29,0x23,0 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.
The Islamic world finds itself increasingly at the epicenter of our escalating climate emergency, both as a locus of the petrochemical industry and as home to extraordinary landscapes in which the effects of environmental transformation are acutely f...
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£50.00
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In Search of the River Jordan
A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water
ISBN: HB: 9780300244151,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 colour illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 colour illus.
A writer's travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River – exploring the long conflict over water supply.
Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has diverted the River Jordan via pipes and canals...
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Return of the Taliban
Afghanistan after the Americans Left
ISBN: HB: 9780300267884,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
320 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm, 15 colour illus., 2 tables, 2 maps
320 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm, 15 colour illus., 2 tables, 2 maps
The first account of the new Taliban – showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors.
Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan – a scenario few Western commentators antic...
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£16.99
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Jerusalem Falls
Seven Centuries of War and Peace
ISBN: HB: 9780300255140,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
384 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 24 black&white illus., 7 maps
384 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 24 black&white illus., 7 maps
The first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth century.
The history of Jerusalem is one of conflict, faith, and empire. Few cities have been attacked as often and as savagely. This was no less true...
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Cairo 1921
Ten Days that Made the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9780300256741,
Yale University Press,
July 2022
264 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
264 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The summit established the states of Iraq and Jordan as part of the Sher...
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