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Enigmas

by Mario Perniola
What do we fear most? Repetition or difference? The return of a barbarism that is remote and prehistoric or the advent of a barbarism that is technological as post-human?
Blaming the Victims

Edited by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W. Said

“These forcefully argued treatises will be as enlightening as they are disturbing.”—ALA Booklist

11 posts
Close Up

by Hamid Dabashi
"The indispensable work on one of the most extraordinary artistic and social adventures of our time."—Edward W. Said
2 posts
The Clash of Fundamentalisms

by Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism.

25 posts

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

by Norman G. Finkelstein

A fully updated new edition, by the author of The Holocaust Industry.

21 posts
A Civilian Occupation

Edited by Rafi Segal, David Tartakover, et al.
Israeli architects, scholars, journalists, and photographers highlight the role of architecture in the Middle East conflict.
4 posts
Peace Under Fire

Edited by Ghassan Andoni, Huwaida Arraf, et al.
The story of the International Solidarity Movement.
4 posts
Bush in Babylon

by Tariq Ali
The bestselling history of the resistance in Iraq that vitalized the antiwar movement, fully updated.
18 posts

What I Heard About Iraq

by Eliot Weinberger
An extraordinary montage of sound-bites and testimonies.
2 posts
Iraq

by Slavoj Žižek
Žižek analyzes the bizarre logic used to justify the attack on Iraq.
3 posts
Messages to the World

by Osama bin Laden
“Unless he dies a natural death in hiding, it seems inevitable that sooner or later his hunter will catch him. If captured alive, he will doubtless be killed on the spot.”—from the introduction.
13 posts
Politicide

by Baruch Kimmerling
The only critical biography of Israel's controversial Prime Minister, otherwise known as 'the Bulldozer.'
1 post

Dreams of a Nation

Edited by Hamid Dabashi
A lively celebration of the genius and power of Palestinian cinema.
3 posts
Muhammad

by Eliot Weinberger
A luminous portrait of the Prophet, in the Islamic tradition.
The Road Map to Nowhere

by Tanya Reinhart

A searing expose of the "peace process" by a prominent Israeli thinker.

3 posts
Israel-Palestine on Record

by Richard Falk and Howard Friel
A detailed indictment of the New York Times’ coverage of Israel-Palestine.
7 posts

Voice of Hezbollah

by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

The first comprehensive edition of Nasrallah’s statements.

4 posts
The Occupation

by Patrick Cockburn

A compelling, masterly portrait of a country revaged by foreign occupation.

6 posts
Beyond Chutzpah

by Norman G. Finkelstein
A meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel–Palestine conflict.
4 posts
Basrayatha

by Muhammad Khudayyir
Evocative portrait of the Iraqi city of Basra, the “Venice of the Middle East”.
1 post

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