Ulfat Idilbi Sabriya portrays life in Damascus in the 1920's. Central to the story is Sabriya's journey to self-knowledge, intertwined with the rise and eclipse of national and feminist awareness...

Jennifer Klinec A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn’t be,...

Naguib Mahfouz This unusual epic from the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history. Set in...

Adaia abd Abraham Shumsky The touching story of an unusual friendship between a Jordanian king and a Jewish carpenter hired to do work on the palace is set against the...

Rania Abouzeid Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some...

Edited by Robert O Freedman Essays about the Mideast discuss the role of external powers, regional political dynamics, and national perspectives on problems of the region. January 1, 1991 by...

Ann Voskamp and Tonia Peckover Explore the Holy Land Includes CD April 30, 2008 by Bramley Books

Leon Sheleff This Thin Green Line: From Intractable Problems to the Feasible Solutions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Xlibris Corp 2005

Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S Strober Based on extensive interviews, Israel at Sixty presents a balanced, comprehensive account of this complex and amazing land. It re-creates historic events from...

Laurie Dolphin A photoessay introduces readers to two of Israel's young inhabitants--a Jew and an Arab--who meet in a special school located in a Jewish/Arab community, where they discuss their...

Samih Al-Qasim, Adinis, Mahmud Darwish Since pre-Islamic days, poetry has been the mass art form of the Arabic language. In modern times poets in the region have had a greater...

Gina B Nahai When she is five years old, Lili, the narrator of this epic and magical tale, watches her mother, Roxanna the Angel, throw herself off the balcony of...