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  • Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution

    Voices from Tunis to Damascus

    Edición de Matthew Cassel, Layla Al-Zubaidi ...
    An English PEN Award–winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab SpringAs revolution swept through the Arab world in spring of 2011, much of the writing that reached the West came via analysts and academics, experts and expats. We heard about Facebook posts and tweeted calls to action, but what was missing was testimony from on-the-ground participants—which is precisely ... Leer más

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  • The Lovers

    Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor Killing

    de Rod Nordland ...
    A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner—an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world.Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, ... Leer más

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  • Rosewater (Movie Tie-in Edition)

    A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

    An impassioned, searing memoir of one man’s brutal imprisonment by the Iranian government that “turns a lens not only on Iran’s surreal justice system but on the history and culture that helped produce it” (The Washington Post), with a foreword by Jon Meacham“Clear and compelling . . . A gripping tribute to human dedication and a cogent indictment of a corrupt regime.”—Washington Independent ... Leer más

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  • Tower of the Sun

    Stories from the Middle East and North Africa

    Prize-winning author Michael J. Totten’s gripping first-person narratives from the war zones, police states, and revolutionary capitals of the Middle East and North Africa paint a vivid picture of peoples and nations at war with themselves, each other, and—sometimes—with the rest of the world.His journeys take him from Libya under the gruesome rule of Muammar Qaddafi to Egypt before, during and ... Leer más

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  • The Marriott Cell

    An Epic Journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to Freedom

    Award-winning journalist Mohamed Fahmy's widely anticipated account of his wrongful incarceration in Cairo's maximum-security Scorpion Prison for terrorists and political leaders, and his subsequent battle for justice, opens a remarkable window onto the closed world of Islamic fundamentalism and the bloody geopolitical struggles that dominate our headlines. An important book that reads like a ... Leer más

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  • People Like Us

    Misrepresenting the Middle East

    A war correspondent’s bestselling, “commanding . . . eye-opening account” of five years on the Middle East frontlines (Publishers Weekly, starred review).In 1998, Joris Luyendijk was stationed just outside of Cairo. It wasn’t for his journalism skills. It was because he was fluent in Arabic. What followed—from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the post 9/11 war in Iraq—would be literal ... Leer más

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  • Inside the Kingdom

    Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

    de Robert Lacey ...
    "It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an epic tale."-Tom BrokawThough Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers ... Leer más

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  • Veiled Courage

    Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance

    de Cheryl Benard ...
    In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman’s slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and incredible that the sole effective civil resistance to Taliban rule was ... Leer más

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  • The Strong Horse

    Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations

    de Lee Smith ...
    In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world, offering advice for America’s future success in the region.Seeking the motivation behind the September 11 attacks, Smith moved to Cairo, where he discovered that the standard explanation—a clash of East and West—was simply not the case. Middle East conflicts ... Leer más

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  • We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled

    Voices from Syria

    LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took ... Leer más

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  • A Privilege to Die

    Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel

    While Hamas and Al Qaeda are certainly dangerous to Israel and the West, Hezbollah and its millions of foot soldiers are the premier force in the Middle East.Veteran Middle East correspondent Thanassis Cambanis offers the first detailed look at the surprising cross section of people willing to die for Hezbollah and its uncompromising agenda to remake the map of the region and destroy Israel.Part ... Leer más

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  • A Month by the Sea

    Encounters in Gaza

    de Dervla Murphy ...
    Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Through reported conversations she creates a vivid picture of life in this coastal fragment of self-governing Palestine. Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health ... Leer más

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