1,657円 Killing Time in Saudi Arabia: An American Experience is on the Kobo Reader! Where Lawrence of Arabia Feared to Tread It's the third book of the American Experiences in Arabia During the War On Terror Series. The author, Matthew Heines, finds himself on a military contract in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....

1,555円 Eastward to Tartary*,* Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a vola...

1,687円 On an impulse, Trudi-Ann Tierney, Sydney producer and former actress, goes to Kabul to manage a bar. She quickly falls into the local TV industry, where she becomes responsible for producing a highly popular soapie. Trudi's staff are hugely inexperienced. They include Habib, the Pashto poet who w...

661円 Former United Press International reporter Michael S. Barrett spent several years in the Middle East and Europe as a foreign correspondent and editor during the mid-1970s. While reporting daily on affairs of state, political trends and a myriad of socioeconomic events and activities, he also prod...

1,723円 Poised between the secular values of socialism and the conservatism of a tenuously balanced government, Istanbul is a fractured city haunted by demons of its own making. Along with thousands of other left-wing activists, Oak's interest in politics leads him to join the annual May Day rallies. T...

2,519円 Why was the corpse of Khalil Ahmad Jaber found in a mound of rubbish? Why did he disappear weeks before his horrific death? And who was he? A journalist begins to piece the truth together by speaking with his widow, a local engineer, a nightwatchman, the garbage man who discovered him, the doctor...

1,200円 Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d’abord les comprendre L'Occident a toujours été son modèle. Mais c'est en Orient que la Turquie moderne s'est construite sur les décombres de l'empire ottoman. Être Turc, aujourd'hui, c'est vivre cette ambiguïté sans complexe, porté par le souffle de...

1,257円 This edition does not include illustrations. A new biography of one of the most intrepid, romantic and fascinating of the great nineteenth-century travellers. Explorer, scholar, travel writer and poet, Charles Doughty was one of the great 19th-century adventurers. In the 1870s he spent two years ...

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1,657円 Please note that this edition does not include illustrations. Part travelogue, part true-thriller, Edward Fox’s brilliantly original book investigates the murder of a US archaeologist on the West Bank in 1992 and opens up the Palestinian world he served – a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...

933円 Roger Housden traveled to Iran to meet with artists, writers, film makers and religious scholars who embody the long Iranian tradition of humanism, the belief in scholarship and artistry that began with the reign of Cyrus the Great. He traveled to the mountains of Kurdistan to learn from Sufis, w...

2,520円 To go beyond the legacy of revolution, religious fundamentalism and veiled women and find the real people of Iran, a young Canadian dons the cloak of Islam. The result of Alison Wearing's journey is a warm, funny and shocking collection of riveting portraits and stories about the generous, irrepr...