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In The Home that Was My Country, Syrian-American journalist Alia Malek chronicles her return to her family home in Damascus and the history of the Jabban apartment building. Here, generations of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Armenians lived, worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters. In telling the story of her family over the course of the last century, Alia brings to light the triumphs and failures that have led Syria to where it is today....
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2014
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“An intriguing murder-mystery journey anchored within the Iranian-Jewish community of Los Angeles.” —Washington Independent Review of Books
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
Finalist for the Jewish Book Council’s JJ Greenberg Memorial Award
The Soleymans, an Iranian Jewish family, have been tormented for decades, from Tehran all the way...
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
Finalist for the Jewish Book Council’s JJ Greenberg Memorial Award
The Soleymans, an Iranian Jewish family, have been tormented for decades, from Tehran all the way...
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An Iranian family embroiled in Islamic revolution, the hostage crisis, incest, and exile in America. Forced to flee the country with their parents as Khomeini rises to power, Nora and Jahan Ellahi rise to the challenge of anti-Iranian hostility in America. Breaking free from their intense attachment to each other, they explore new relationships to forge independent lives. The romantic artist Jahan ultimately returns to join the army to fight Iraq,...
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A woman's struggle for self-realization in contemporary Iran. When Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing-an intellectual and a radical-and moves to Abadan, a thriving oil town near the Iraqi border, she imagines her life will be adventurous and liberating. Before long, however, she becomes aware of her husband's suspicious liaisons and dangerous activities. Her struggle to forge her own identity as a woman in contemporary Iran is charged...
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Une tournée historique du sultan aux confins du grand désert d'Arabie.
En 1955, les vents du changement commençaient à souffler sur les montagnes et déserts du sultanat d'Oman. Les effluves troublants du pétrole promettaient de bouleverser cet État encore médiéval. Les rumeurs de révolte se mélaient aux intrigues de puissances étrangères. Pour le sultan, il était temps d'agir.
Appuyé par les Britanniques, à l'époque encore influents,...
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Mansour al-Jazaïri is on his way to his public execution. As his faithful friend Hussein looks on, the crowd calls for his head. Gassouh! Gassouh! It is a time when age-old rituals play out amid skyscrapers and are replayed on smartphone screens in the air-conditioned corridors of shopping malls. Set over the course of a single day in the Saudi Arabian capital, Mansour's Eyes weaves together several historical pasts: the time of Mansour's great-grandfather,...
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"The definitive memoir of one of Israel's most influential soldier-statesmen and one-time Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, with insights into forging peace in the Middle East. In the summer of 2000, the most decorated soldier in Israel's history--Ehud Barak--set himself a challenge as daunting as any he had faced on the battlefield: to secure a final peace with the Palestinians. He would propose two states for two peoples, with a shared capital in Jerusalem....
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Lebanese explorer leaves the Levant for the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. In this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who has dismantled a sumptuous palace in Tripoli and is transporting it across the continent on a camel caravan. The protagonist soon takes charge of this hoard of...
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