NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 9, 2011
"A revelatory, impressive debut."
How America's unappeasable thirst for cheap oil led to foreign-policy bungling in the Persian Gulf.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 19, 2011
"More journalism than deep analysis, the book paints a vivid portrait of dramatic changes in the Islamic world that may or may not end well."
In one of the first of a flood of books that will inevitably follow Osama bin Laden's death and the Middle East uprisings, Wright (
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, 2008, etc.) delivers the stirring news that jihadism is fading, and Arab nations are finally entering the modern world.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 19, 2011
"A readable, potentially incendiary account that assumes a certain amount of prior knowledge about Middle East diplomacy, yet is coherent enough for novice readers to follow."
Insights about failed diplomacy in the Middle East by an American agent with a unique perspective.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 28, 2010
"Hezbollah is a formidable presence that cannot be ignored, and Cambanis's book, a well-balanced blend of journalism, history and geopolitical primer, is a significant aid to understanding it."
If there's anything to unite the Arab world, it's opposition to Israel. If there's a group to do that unifying, writers former
Boston Globe Middle East bureau chief Cambanis, it's the much-feared Hezbollah, the Party of God.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 8, 2010
"An imaginative solution to the Middle-East stalemate, though perhaps too imaginative for most American readers."
NONFICTION
Released: April 27, 2010
"If one person's story can shed light on a larger history, Bird's memoir carries many excellent lessons."
A wise, intimate memoir about growing up the son of an American foreign-service officer in the Middle East, from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bird (co-author,
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 2005, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: April 5, 2010
"An excellent argument for the necessity of careful sifting of historical precedent and error."
A keen-eyed, sweeping survey of the depressingly familiar erroneous U.S. policy in the Middle East since the Balfour Declaration in 1917.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2009
"Though the author left her home country after the 1979 revolution, the details of her incarceration shed light on the continued troubling aspects of this regime."
The founding director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East Program recounts her absurdist imprisonment in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 1, 2009
"Horrifying true tales intelligently told."
NONFICTION
Released: May 4, 2009
"A humane, well-reasoned investigation of the Arab countries of the Middle East and the tremendous vitality of their inhabitants."
A sly, knowledgeable look at the changes in Arab mores and politics since the 1970s, from a
New York Times journalist with extensive experience in the region.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 9, 2008
"Hussein's legacy, Shlaim holds, is "the possibility, at least, of peace in the Middle East," toward which he contributed a share--indeed, a lion's share. A worthy biography."
A comprehensive, highly readable life of the well-known but much-overlooked Middle Eastern leader.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2008
"Enlightening but sobering, particularly when one wonders where Meir's utopian ideals went to."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 28, 2008
"A fine set of dispatches from the front."
An astute assessment of the state of the Middle East, by a longtime reporter and observer of the scene.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 25, 2007
"Riveting from start to finish."
An intrepid writer journeys to the Middle East at the dawn of the 21st century to document the lives of young people whose countries are immersed in social and political upheaval.
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