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  • Baghdad Burning

    Girl Blog from Iraq

    by Riverbend ...
    Since the fall of Bagdad, women's voices have been largely erased, but four months after Saddam Hussein's statue fell, a 24 year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging.In 2003, a twenty-four-year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging about life in the city under the pseudonym Riverbend. Her passion, honesty, and wry idiomatic English made her work a vital contribution to our understanding of post ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baghdad Burning II

    More Girl Blog from Iraq

    by Riverbend ...
    Riverbend, the young Iraqi woman whose "articulate, even poetic prose packs an emotional punch," continues her blog from her hometown of Baghdad ( The New York Times).Riverbend, the pseudonymous recipient of a Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Literary Reportage, continues her chronicle of daily life in occupied Baghdad. Drawn from her popular blog, this volume spans from October 2004 through ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Rise of ISIS

    by Joby Warrick ...
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  • They Called Me a Lioness

    A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

    **A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.“I cannot even begin to convey the clarity, the intensity, the power, the photographic storytelling of They Called Me a Lioness.”—Ibram X. Kendi, internationally bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist**ONE OF ... Read more

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  • And Then All Hell Broke Loose

    Two Decades in the Middle East

    by Richard Engel ...
    A major New York Times bestseller by NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel—this riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen close up “should be required reading” (Booklist, starred review).In 1997, young Richard Engel, working freelance for Arab news sources, got a call that a busload of Italian tourists was massacred at a Cairo museum. This is ... Read more

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  • Rise of ISIS

    A Threat We Can't Ignore

    by Jay Sekulow ...
    THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISISJay Sekulow, one of America’s most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions.Recently, the world has been shaken by gruesome photos and videos that have introduced us to the now infamous ... Read more

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  • ISIS

    Inside the Army of Terror (Updated Edition)

    Fully Revised & Updated Edition of the New York Times Bestselling and Highly Praised Book on ISISWith newly added material and breaking news including:—Interview with a former ISIS spymaster—Why ISIS is targeting Europe and the US—What Russia wants in Syria—Revelations on the brutal ideology of ISISWith brutal attacks in last year across... ... Read more

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  • A Rage for Order

    The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS

    The definitive work of literary journalism on the Arab Spring and its troubled aftermathIn 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship. Five years later, their utopian aspirations have taken on a darker cast as old ... Read more

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  • We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled

    Voices from Syria

    LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took ... Read more

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  • Until We Are Free

    My Fight for Human Rights in Iran

    by Shirin Ebadi ...
    In this searing memoir, the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of an Iranian government out to destroy her, her family, and her mission: to bring justice to the people and the country she loves.“Shirin Ebadi is quite simply the most vital voice for freedom and human rights in Iran.”—Reza Aslan, #1 New York Times bestselling ... Read more

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  • The Assassins' Gate

    America in Iraq

    by George Packer ...
    "The most complete, sweeping, and powerful account of the Iraq War." — New York MagazineHailed as "the definitive book about the Iraq War" by Salon, The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led ... Read more

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  • The Lonely War

    One Woman's Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran

    by Nazila Fathi ...
    In the summer of 2009, as she was covering the popular uprisings in Tehran for the New York Times, Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi received a phone call. "They have given your photo to snipers," a government source warned her. Soon after, with undercover agents closing in, Fathi fled the country with her husband and two children, beginning a life of exile.In The Lonely War, Fathi interweaves her ... Read more

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