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  • Mar012014
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    Zealot

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    Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic figures by…

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  • Mar042013
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    Sex and Punishment

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    Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour:…

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  • Apr012012
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    The Calligrapher’s Garden

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    Hassan Massoudy’s elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons of the garden. From the icy palettes of winter and the fading…

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  • Aug262011
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    Sabra Zoo

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    WINNER OF THE 2011 COMMONWEALTH WRITER’S PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK Summer 1982: Beirut is under siege. Eighteen-year-old Ivan’s parents…

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  • Aug012011
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    A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories

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    This reader consists of the full Arabic texts of eleven short stories by established Egyptian, Iraqi, Syrian and Jordanian writers.…

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  • Jun042011
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    Beyond the Veil

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    Does Islam as a religion oppress women? Is Islam against democracy? In this classic study, internationally renowned sociologist Fatema Mernissi…

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    The Arabs and the Holocaust

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    The Arab–Israeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged on Middle East battlefields. There is also a war of narratives…

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  • Jun022011
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    Unspeakable Love

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    Homosexuality is a taboo subject in the Arab world. While clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers write cryptically…

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  • Apr122011
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    The Old Man and His Sons

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    These are the Faroe Islands as they were some fifty years ago: sea-washed and remote, with one generation still tied…

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  • Mar022011
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    Political Journeys

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    Fred Halliday always combined the broad sweep of modern history, its currents and ideas, with a profound knowledge of modern…

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  • Jan262011
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    Shake Off

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    London 1989: Michel is an undercover PLO operative hooked on painkillers and posing as a student. He is tasked by…

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  • Sep012010
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    I Killed Scheherazade

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    Joumana Haddad is angry about the way Arab women are portrayed in the West. In I Killed Scheherazade she challenges…

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