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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiv, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Presenting a brief but thorough account of the cultural, economic and political history of the state of Israel, a public intellectual sheds light on the past of this complex nation, one rife with conflict, so that readers can understand its future." --
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxiii, 323 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Description
As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his Pakistani father remained a distant figure, almost a figment of his imagination, until Aatish crossed the border when he was twenty-one to finally meet him. In the years that followed, the relationship between father and son revived, then fell apart. For Aatish, their tension had not just to do with the tensions...
44) Dead heat
Author
Series
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 5
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
ii, 400 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"For Jon and Erin Bennett, the world seems to be spinning dangerously out of control. A new dictator is rising in Iraq. China is making threatening new moves toward Taiwan. North Korean forces appear ready to strike south. Israel is feverishly trying to complete the Third Temple. Oil prices are surging. And in the wake of an horrific war in the Middle East, President James MacPherson's second term is coming to an end. Now the battle to succeed him...
45) Strike force
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 13
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xx, 410 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vi, 454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Using newly declassified records and long-forgotten memoirs, including the diaries of a key British spy, James Barr tears up the conventional interpretation of this era in the Middle East, vividly portraying the tensions between London and Washington, and shedding an uncompromising light on the murkier activities of a generation of American and British diehards in the region, from the battle of El Alamein in 1942 to Britain's abandonment of Aden...
47) The twelfth Imam
Author
Series
Twelfth Imam novels volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
viii, 490 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
As the apocalyptic leaders of Iran call for the annihilation of Israel and the U.S., CIA operative David Shirazi is sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program, without leaving American fingerprints and without triggering a regional war. A native Farsi speaker whose family escaped from Iran in 1979, he couldn't be better prepared for the mission. But none of his training has prepared Shirazi...
49) Tehran
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Series
Description
This edition of the Bradt guide to Tehran by Patricia Baker and Hilary Smith combines their knowledge of the city's major sights with maps, historical and cultural perspectives and recommendations for hotels, restaurants and cafés as well as detailed information on city transport, shopping and attractions in and around the city. The colourful and engaging writing style is aimed at informing as well as entertaining the reader. All information is drawn...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"A twenty-year army veteran who served in Vietnam, Andrew J. Bacevich brings the full weight of his expertise to this vitally important subject. America?s War for the Greater Middle East is a bracing after-action report from the front lines of history. It will fundamentally change the way we view America?s engagement in the world?s most volatile region."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"From Syria to Egypt, northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities that were the birthplaces of prophets and saints are losing any living connection to Christianity, the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing, journalist Janine di Giovanni writes about the last traces of small, hardy Christian communities that have become fearful of outsiders and where ancient rituals are quietly...
52) Yatimah
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
153 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Description
In a mid-ninth-century Bedouin camp in the Arabian Desert, a horse is born to a prized Arabian war mare who dies during the birth, and the foal is raised with dreams of continuing her mother's glory as a war mare. Includes facts about Arabian horses and their importance to Bedouin tribes.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A nominee for Academy Awards® and Golden Globes alike, this documentary's astonishing widescreen photography and brilliant soundtrack remove the viewer from their home and thrust them onto the perilous Zardh-Kuh mountain range and its icy neighbor, the winding Karun River. Connecting these two treacherous landmarks is the famous Bakhtiari migration, a 200-mile journey made twice every year by 500,000 nomads and their animals, taking...
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
European filmmaker Eric Connor was granted unlimited access into the private, mysterious world of the Ezidis, an ancient people who have endured centuries of persecution.
56) Grass
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In 1924, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (King Kong) linked up with journalist and part-time spy Marguerite Harrison to film adventure, danger and unparalleled drama in the treacherous migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia. Featuring unforgettable tableaus of courage and determination as the Bakhtiari braved the raging Karun River, this restored, full-length version with a new Iranian score will astonish audiences with its...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Colonel Gulmurod Kalimov, head of Tajikistan’s elite Special Forces and close to the president’s family, was a man at the heart of the establishment. Trained in counter-terrorism by both the Russians and the Americans, he led the fight against Islamic extremists in Tajikistan. But in April 2015 he disappeared – only to reappear a few weeks later in an ISIS recruitment video calling on all Muslims in the former Soviet Union to come and join him....
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The infamous iron-fisted despot was born craving power as were his brutal sons. His fate and the story of his country ae deftly revealed in this film.
Publisher
Unity Productions Foundation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The documentary explores and celebrates the great richness of Islamic art and architecture throughout the world by inviting viewers to peer into extraordinary palaces and mosques decorated with exquisite gardens, ceramics, and paintings, to watch the play of light and space, and to sense the sheen of delicate textiles, of gold and silver work, and of rock crystal and precious gems.
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An acclaimed Iraqi filmmaker takes us on a fascinating, perilous and yet poetic journey across his fractured country. Breathtaking in its scope.
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