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ix, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Presents the life and career of the Middle East specialist, from his professional relationships with world leaders to his accomplishments in world politics, and offers the author's analysis of the political transformation of the region.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 168 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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One man's journey by foot, jeep, rowboat and camel through the greatest stories ever told: The five books of Moses. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mount Sinai, this will change the view of history's most legendary events.
47) I am Justice
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Band of sisters volume 1
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374 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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Justice Parish was rescued from a brutal childhood and adopted into a loving family. But the scars from her past cannot be forgotten, and she vows to protect and avenge others who haven't escaped the cruel hands of injustice. She becomes a skilled assassin, a vigilante. Her next target: a sex-trafficking ring in the war-torn Middle East. She just needs the perfect cover to get close and take them down ... After years of witnessing the destructive...
49) Inventing God
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296 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
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English
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English
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"In 2006, Shadid, an Arab-American raised in Oklahoma, was covering Israel's attack on Lebanon when he heard that an Israeli rocket had crashed into the house his great-grandfather built, his family's ancestral home. Not long after, Shadid (who had covered three wars in the Middle East) realized that he had lost his passion for a region that had lost its soul. He had seen too much violence and death; his career had destroyed his marriage. Seeking...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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An original story, based on the Joha tales of the Arabic-speaking world, in which a hapless man finds a wishing stick that brings him nothing but bad luck. Includes an author's note about the history of Joha tales.
52) Confronting ISIS
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Investigating the U.S.-led efforts to degrade and destroy ISIS. Reporting from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey, the film examines the successes, failures, and challenges of the fight, as ISIS loses ground in the region but strikes out abroad.
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xvii, 377 pages : map ; 21 cm
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English
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"Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy. With vivid story-telling, extensive historical research and on-the-ground reporting, Ghattas dispels accepted truths about a region she calls home. She explores how Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia...
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394 pages : 8 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 23 cm
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English
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In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe set off on her bicycle across the Middle East. Driven by a desire to learn more about this troubled region and its relationship with the West, Lowe's 11,000-kilometre journey took her through Europe to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, the Gulf and finally to Iran. It was an odyssey through landscapes and history that captured her heart, but also a deeply challenging...
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Sands of Arawiya volume 1
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570 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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Español
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In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old huntress Zafira must disguise herself as a man to seek a lost artifact that could return magic to her cursed world.
En un mundo inspirado en la antigua Arabia, la cazadora Zafira, de diecisiete años, debe disfrazarse de hombre para buscar un artefacto perdido que pueda devolver la magia a su mundo maldito.
Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest...
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470 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Sam Deker travels back in time to Nazi-occupied Greece to steal a formula for an ultimate weapon only to discover that Hitler's Secret Service is a front for a centuries-old organization that would seize power in the twenty-first century.
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