Elizabeth Laird
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Finding Echoes of Stories Across Cultures: A Conversation With Elizabeth Laird

Growing up in South London, children’s book author Elizabeth Laird...
Rachel Beckles Willson
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A Personal Exploration of the `ud: A Conversation With Rachel Beckles Willson

Entranced by sound and history
Barbara Abdeni Massaad
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Nourishing Hope: A Conversation With Barbara Abdeni Massaad

A collection of 100 traditional Lebanese dishes.
Martin Williams
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Desert Dreams: A Conversation With Martin Williams

The Sahara’s valleys fascinated him.
Asma Khan
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Cooking Food For the Body, Mind and Soul: A Conversation With Chef and Restauranteur Asma Khan

Creating community and new flavors in London
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
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Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

Despite a century spent marveling at the 3,300-year-old tomb of...
Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics and the French Revolution
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Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics and the French Revolution

It wasn’t until he found himself thousands of kilometers from his...
Amazing Women of the Middle East: 25 Stories from Ancient Times to Present Day
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Amazing Women of the Middle East: 25 Stories from Ancient Times to Present Day

Writer, translator and storyteller Wafa’ Tarnowska’s...
Ancient Ivory: Masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire
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Ancient Ivory: Masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire

British archeologist Austen Henry Layard discovered the first pieces of...
Ibn Tulun: His Lost city and Great Mosque
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Ibn Tulun: His Lost city and Great Mosque

This elegant, richly illustrated volume covers the history, architecture...

The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt’s Medieval and Modern Appliqué Craft

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Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean

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Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan

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Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts

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The Mercantile Effect: Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World during the 17th and 18th Centuries

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Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830–1920

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Printed in Beirut

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A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut

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The United States through Arab Eyes: An Anthology of Writings (1876–1914)

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Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man

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Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War

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Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Confluences

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