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22) Bible lands
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Description
Photographs and text document life in Biblical times, surveying the clothing, food, and civilizations of a wide variety of cultures, including the Israelites, Babylonians, Persians, and Romans.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Follows the efforts of counterterrorist agents to identify and take out an Al Qaeda terrorist who has secured his release from the Guantanamo prison and who is hiding in a remote desert outpost while plotting to bomb a western city.
Author
Publisher
Hardie Grant
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
543 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
The Complete Middle Eastern Cookbook is ready for a whole new generation of cooks. With more than 500 recipes carefully tested and set out in easy-to-follow steps, Tess Mallos shows you how to produce delectable meals from the fascinating cultures of the Middle East. With more than eighty stunning photographs, this book provides a brilliant insight into the regional dishes of Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria, as well as an invaluable introduction...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvii, 377 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
"The bestselling author of The Secretary tells the gripping story of the real roots of the Sunni-Shia conflict in Middle East in the 1979 Iran Revolution that changed the region forever"--
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
vii, 278 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Documents the author's travels to the Middle East in search of an understanding of radical Islamic violence, journeys during which he focused his research on Muslim youth and learned about his interviewees' perspectives and experiences at the risk of his own life.
29) Middle East
Publisher
Lonely Planet Publications
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
v : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Description
The only guide that covers the entire region; Full-colour highlights include Petra, Haram Ash-Sharif (Temple Mount) and the Pyramids of Giza; Includes vital, information on border crossings and visas.
Author
Series
Twelfth Imam novels volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
x, 470 pages ; 24 cm
Description
After Israel declares war on Iran, CIA operative David Shirazi infiltrates the Iranian regime and intercepts information indicating that two Iranian nuclear warheads have been moved to a secure and undisclosed location.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 168 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Presents one man's epic journey--by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel--through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climging Mount Sinai to touching the burning bush, Bruce Feiler's inspiring odyssey will forever change your view of history's most legendary events"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Academica Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"This is the untold story of the origins, political awakening, and rise of what the United States and its allies call the Haqqani Network, and what the Haqqani family calls the Haqqani Mujahideen. The author lived with the Haqqanis as a young reporter for the New York Times in the 1980s, in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, when they were America's allies in the Afghan-Soviet war. After 9/11, the network became America's enemy. This book tells...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
320 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
In a near-future world in which governments and corporations are forced to hire cutting-edge mercenary armies to protect their wealth, the globe's largest private military launches a campaign to take over the United States.
34) Salt houses
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 194 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing threat: ISIS. America is in grave danger until our government takes decisive action against the terrorists that want nothing more than to destroy us and our way of life. Flynn spent more than 33 years in Army intelligence, and has been a firsthand witness to government screw-ups, smokescreens, and censored information that our leaders don't want us to know. Here he succinctly lays out why we...
36) Homeland Gone
Publisher
Kinonation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (35 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Lebanon is a country hijacked by sects, money, and power. While citizens long for a collective identity to thrive as a community, politicians use the sectarianism for their corrupt ambitions. Unless there is a change, Lebanon will be lost forever.
38) Captain
Author
Formats
Description
"It's 1915 and British troops are about to sail to Gallipoli. Billy is the youngest soldier in his platoon and is teased for not being old enough to drink or shave. The truth is, at fifteen he's not old enough to be a soldier, either, and he's terrified of the war he's about to fight. Then he meets Captain, a refugee boy, and his donkey, Hey-ho. Together they teach Billy what it means to be brave, loyal, and fearless, and above all what it means to...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo museum. This was his first view of the carnage these years would pile on. Over two decades, Engel has been under fire, blown out of hotel beds, and taken hostage....
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