“Boullata takes the reader close to the struggle of those visionary, obstinate Palestinian artists who create so that their anonymous heroic land with its ancestral olive trees may survive.”—John Berger

“It is rare and exciting to find an art book full of persuasive, urgent visua...

“It is thrilling when an old cuisine finds a place on the gastronomic map. This charming book is about good real food with delicious flavours and centuries of tradition behind it.”—Claudia Roden

This new edition of Classic Palestinian Cuisine features a rich variety of over...

“Atwan's 1996 interview with bin Laden in his Afghanistan redoubt was one of the first and remains one of the best. Atwan ‘got it’ from the moment bin Laden appeared on the scene. . . . What many [Muslims] hate is not the American people but American foreign policy.”—Michael Scheuer, t...

Kahlil Gibran was born into a Christian family in Lebanon in 1883 and was raised in the United States. His book of poetic essays, The Prophet, is an international classic, translated into over forty languages since its debut in 1923.

Gibran's life is retraced with a simplicity akin t...

The Arabic alphabet has a fascinating history, one that is entwined with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. The authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, a descendant of Phoenecian, which itself gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets.

The...

The treatment of joint costs, which has troubled the sector for decades, is an integral part of any study of accounting in the petroleum industry.

Abdulhadi H. Taher treats joint costs and the problem of "transfer prices" from one division of an international petroleum organization to anoth...

People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited the British Isles for centuries. Paul Gilroy, renowned for his work exploring the social and cultural dimensions of black Britishness, has assembled a living history of black people in the British Isles. Spanning two hundred years, this colle...

"Being a woman in Iran is hard, and working as a woman photographer is even harder."-Shadi Ghadirian

Shadi Ghadirian is one of Iran's leading contemporary photographers. Born in Tehran in 1974, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, and her work has been collected by muse...

Part anthology and part travelogue, Translating Libya presents the country through the eyes of sixteen Libyan short story writers and one American diplomat. Intrigued by the apparent absence of 'place' in modern Libyan short fiction, Ethan Cho...

"One of the most poignant testimonies to the Lebanese civil war."-Moris Farhi

As an uneasy peace settles over war-torn Beirut, a woman reflects: Events in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Argentina remind her of the tragedies that shaped her life.

What has she achieved in her voluntary exi...

Arak and Mezze celebrates two of the Levant's cherished traditions-the aniseed-flavored spirit that inspired the great eaux de vie of Europe, and the appetizers that have become a byword for all that is delicious and healthy in Lebanese food.

Michael Karam and Norbert Schiller explor...