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Middle Eastern Studies Books
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Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,383 ratings — published 1978
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,723 ratings — published 1991
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,115 ratings — published 2006
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,080 ratings — published 1989
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,515 ratings — published 1926
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
by (shelved 4 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,775 ratings — published 2005
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,489 ratings — published 1990
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,378 ratings — published 1989
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,110 ratings — published 1997
On Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,800 ratings — published 2015
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.65 — 1,449 ratings — published 2018
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 868 ratings — published 1986
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,374 ratings — published 2013
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,179 ratings — published 2003
Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies' Table Our Journey Through the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,376 ratings — published 2010
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,791 ratings — published 2006
The Question of Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,481 ratings — published 1979
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,223 ratings — published 2006
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,520 ratings — published 2006
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,295 ratings — published 1968
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,518 ratings — published 1995
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,268 ratings — published 2001
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 240,956 ratings — published 2003
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 45,827 ratings — published 2024
Classical Poems By Arab Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.58 — 193 ratings — published 1999
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 77,751 ratings — published 2025
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.77 — 6,279 ratings — published 2025
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,691 ratings — published 2024
Ten Myths About Israel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,387 ratings — published 2017
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,415 ratings — published 2000
A History of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,837 ratings — published 1993
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,193 ratings — published 2020
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,318 ratings — published 2021
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,103 ratings — published 2022
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,673 ratings — published 2020
The Perfumed Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.38 — 1,048 ratings — published 1499
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,506 ratings — published 2013
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 18)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 181 ratings — published 1988
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 39,350 ratings — published 2020
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,660 ratings — published 2021
عمان الإنسان والسلطة: قراءة ممهدة لفهم المشهد السياسي العماني المعاصر (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 60 ratings — published 2013
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,155 ratings — published 2015
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,470 ratings — published 2012
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,381 ratings — published 2013
Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.28 — 21,521 ratings — published 2005
Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 141 ratings — published 2002
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Norton Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,003 ratings — published 2001
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,394 ratings — published 2014
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,508 ratings — published 2015
Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,288 ratings — published 1991
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Initiation
― Initiation
“One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).”
― Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy
― Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy