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."
