Search Results: Middle East from Diatrope Books

Ministry for Foreign Affairs Research Division, 1973. Paperback. Good. Unmarked text. Some tanning on cover. Selection of speeches and interviews given by Arab leaders as well as pertinent press and radio comment on peaceful solutions, the battle of destiny, "Palestinians' rights," terror and the situation inside Arab Countries. Voices range from Sadat, Zayat and Qadhafi to Asad, Arafat, Nassar and Al-Lawzi. 240p.

Rand, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Nicely illustrated. A multiple award winning volume that examines the options for strengthening the housing and transportation infrastructure of a future independent Palestine state. Chapters on Palestine: The Formal Structure of a New State, Costs and Economic Benefits, and Sociopolitical Challenges. 91p. Measures 7x12 inches.

Marburg/Lahn : Im Selbstverlag des Geographischen Instituts der Universitat, 1974. Paperback. Good. Ex-library. 116p. illustrations, maps. 116+pp. References. Text in German

University of California Press, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Map. Notes. Bibliographic Note. Index. Ten interlocking essays that examine the complexities of the Middle East and the relationship between secular and religious politics in the Middle East. Topics include Islam and Human Rights, Pan-Arabism, Imperialism, Islam as a Political system and more.

Primus Books, 2020. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 0x0x0. Unmarked text. Some smudging on back of dust jacket. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Illustrated end papers. 4 maps. Bibliography. Index. 286p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. Presents conditions of life of the ordinary people in a small region of the Mughal Empire from about the accession of Akbar (1556) to the collapse of Mughal power (1739). Uses a mass of privately preserved documents in Persian and Braj, along with historical texts, travel accounts, etc.

Human Rights Watch, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. 144p. Maps. Topics include the obligations of Israel and the Palestinian Authority under International Law, Recommendations and more.

South End Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Argues that the U.S. rejectionist policy toward Palestinian participation and Palestinian rights has become a policy that focuses more on the process than on peace. 265p. Appendix: Settlements and Settler in the West Bank, 1967-2001

Israel Diaspora Institute, 1990. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Topics include a short history of Electoral Reform in Israel, Electing the Knesset, Electing the Prime Minister, and other issues. 27p. Project Coordinator: Dr. Yoram Peri. Book editor: Ann Scheman

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Map. Notes. Index. 680p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. A riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam.

Chronicle Books, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Clipped dust jacket. Laid in letter from a former Consul General of Israel, on Consulate General of Israel stationery. Beautiful full-page illustrations. Measures 13.25x10.25 inches. 144p. Unique aerial photographs of Israel sites of biblical interest. Accompanied by a descriptive text with helpful maps and illustrations which inform the background to the places pictured.

Biblical Archaeology Society, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Beautifully illustrated. Accompanied traveling exhibition. Includes the 8-panel exhibition brochure from the Smithsonian stop. 45p. Measures 7.75x11.75 inches.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Articles on Health and Healing, Politics of Place and Identity, Book Reviews on Constructing Identity, Iran, Palestine, etc. Contributors include (among others) Mansoor Moaddel, Zayde Antrim, Raz Yosef, and Camron Michael Amin.167p.

Cambridge University Press, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Articles include "Maghazi and the Muhaddithun" (Qasim Zaman), "Muhamad Sa'id al-Ashmawi and the Application of the Shari'a in Egypt (Shepard), "Israel's Road to the 1956 War" (Tai) and more. 162p.

Cambridge University Press, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Includes Stereotypes and Political Styles: Islamists and Tribefolk in Yemen by Paul Dresch and Bernard Haykel; Dogs, Women, Cholera, and other Menances in the Streets: Cartoon Satire in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908-11 by Palmira Brummett,, and more. pp403-546. Measures 7x10 inches.

Cambridge University Press, 1993. Paperback. Good. Unmarked text. Bumped corner. Articles include "The Khāliṣah of Varamin" by Mansoureh Ettehadieh Nezam-Mafi, "Ḥaqq Akhu Manshad: Major and Minor Wrongs and Specialized Judges Among the Negev Bedouin" by Gideon M. Kressel, "The Precarious Life and Slow Death of the Mixed Courts of Egypt" by Nathan J. Brown, "Ottoman Political Writing, 1768–1808" by Virginia H. Aksan, and more. 185p. Measures 7x10 inches.

International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. This monograph addresses the inadequacy and validity of existing theoretical perspectives on the Middle East. The critique presented offers Islam as a unifying constant rather than a sporadic phenomenon correlated to the flux of social, political and economic conditions and argues that Islam should be conceptually incorporated into any analysis of the region. Index. 61p. Measures 6x9 inches.

Indiana University Press, 1997. Paperback. Good. Unmarked except for some writing on front end page. Special section on the state of the Israel state. Contributions include (among others) "Education in Israeli Society" by Walter Ackerman, "The Education of Israel's Negev Beduin" by Ismael Abu-Saad, Chambers of Horro: Holocaust Museums in Israel and the US" by Omer Barton.

Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Peace Paper, 29, August 2004 (A Gitelson Peace Publication). 44p. Slight corner crease.

The Davies Group Publisher, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Personal reflections on religious life and conflict in Israel and the occupied West Bank were written during February through May, 2005, while the author was in Jerusalem to support Jewish Israelis, Muslim Palestinians, and Christians working for a just peace. Illustrations. Maps. 240p.

University of California Press, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. 240p. With an emphasis on peaceful resolution of conflict, the journal unites sound research and analysis with a variety of well-informed perspectives by academics, policy makers, and diplomats. Articles include "Palestine, Apartheid, and Jimmy Carter: Reading Past the Title" by William B. Quandt; Timur Goksel (Mr. UNIFIL) reflects on a quarter century of peacekeeping in Sourth Lebanon, an interview; "The June 1967 War and the Palestinian Refugee Problem" by Tom Segev, "Camp David II: Looking Back, Looking Forward" by Richard Falk and more.