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Edward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history, and social change. He reveals his thoughts on the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, and the Israeli-Pal...

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The Arabian Nights Cookbook: From Lamb Kebabs to Baba Ghanouj, Delicious Homestyle Middle Eastern Cooking

By: Habeeb Salloum

**2011 Best Arab Cuisine book in the U.S., Gourmand World Cookbook Award** Prepare delicious and healthy meals with this award-winning Arabian cookbook For untold centuries, the Bedouin of the Arabian Peninsula, in...

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Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East and North Africa

By: Habeeb Salloum

The vegetarian cuisine of the Middle East and North Africa is a treasure chest of pungent herbs and spices, aromatic stews and soups, chewy falafels and breads, couscous, stuffed grape leaves, greens and vegetables, humm...

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Islamic Resistance to Imperialism

By: Eric Walberg

Eric Walberg’s third book on geopolitical strategy focuses on the Middle East and the global ramifications of the multiple state destruction resulting from Western aggression. It addresses these questions: What is...

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The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts

By: Karen Armstrong

Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The significance of...

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Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War

By: Robin Yassin Kassab

In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Seven years later, Syria is a warzone, and there seems to be no end in sight.  Burning Country&n...

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Consuming the Muse - erotic tales

By: Sylvia Petter

Writing as AstridL, Sylvia Petter´s Consuming the Muse is a collection of erotic tales. The book is interspersed wit drawings by Sharon Ratheiser, Vienna....

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Geflimmer der Vergangenheit

By: Sylvia Petter

German translation of stories appearing in The Past Present and   Back Burning as well as some others. Translation by Eberhard Hain, Chemnitz, Germany, my first and dear colleague at the 1973 Geneva Conference on...

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The Past Present

By: Sylvia Petter

THE PAST PRESENT is an eclectic mix of 21 stories with just some of the premises—Al Gore is Spartacus?—octogenarian love—leprechauns—the fate of a Haider fan …. What they said:...

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Mercury Blobs

By: Sylvia Petter

A collection of flash fiction which will challenge and delight readers. All over the place in the space of a mind. Short and shorter stories that "are sometimes very funny and sometimes very moving, and often they a...

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