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	Iraq, An Illustrated History and Guide  •  Gilles Munier HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES This concise guide, chock full of color photographs, covers the history, culture, religion and tumultuous current events of Iraq. (IRQ15, $20.00)
	Ancient Iraq  •  Georges Roux ARCHAEOLOGY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 546 PAGES A thorough introduction the ancient Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Sumerian and Akkadian peoples of modern-day Iraq. Roux surveys available archaeological evidence to provide an engaging account of these important past Western civilizations. (IRQ01, $17.00)
	A Reed Shaken by the Winds  •  Gavin Maxwell TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES A classic account of travels with Wilfred Thesiger among Iraq's now-vanished reed-dwelling Marsh Arabs, originally published in 1957. (MDE72, $25.95)
	Understanding Iraq  •  William Polk HISTORY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 221 PAGES A brisk, well-informed analysis of the present situation in Iraq in the context of Iraqi history from Babylonian and Assyrian antecedents, Mongol invasion, British rule, to U.S. policy. A professor of history at the University of Chicago and Harvard, an Arabic and Turkish speaker and member of the State Department policy staff, William Polk is an excellent guide to the history of Iraq. His book is ambitiously subtitled The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, From Genghis Khan's Mongols To The Ottoman Turks To The British Mandate To The American Occupation. (IRQ14, $13.95)
	Iraq Map  •   Gizi Map 2008 •  MAP A nicely detailed map of Iraq and surrounding areas, including archeaological sites and points of interest, at a scale of 1:2,00,000. With lines of latitude and longitude at one-degree intervals, tinted relief and landscape features including lakes, desert, salt lakes and wetlands. (MDE69, $10.95)

	Baghdad Map  •   Gizi Map    •  A detailed street map of Baghdad. (IRQ03, $12.95)
	National Geographic Atlas of the Middle East  •   National Geographic   • REFERENCE  •  These maps graphically illustrate the history, politics, people and resources of the Middle East. With 40 photographs and 80 maps, including a two-page spread on each of 16 nations. (MDE71, $21.95)
	A Fist in the Hornet's Nest: On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During, and After the War  •  Richard Engel   • HISTORY  •  A gripping memoir and vivid account of the preparation, siege and aftershocks of the American invasion of Baghdad. (IRQ12, $30.95)
	A History of the Arab Peoples  •  Albert Hourani   • HISTORY  •  A grand history of the Arab world by the distinguished Oxford historian Albert Hourani, this is a readable and much acclaimed survey that ranges over 13 centuries, chronicling the political, spiritual, religious and cultural traditions of the Arab peoples in 26 lucidly written chapters. (MDE11, $16.99)
	A Peace to End all Peace  •  David Fromkin   • HISTORY  •  Fromkin's panoramic tale spans from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to post-WWI independence. It's an indispensable overview of the creation of the modern nations of the Middle East. (ARB13, $20.00)
	Crusade, The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War  •  Rick Atkinson   • HISTORY  •  An extensive account of the 42-day Persian Gulf War and how it single-handedly transformed modern warfare. (ARB46, $17.95)
	Islam and the West  •  Bernard Lewis   • RELIGION  •  In this illuminating collection of essays, one of the great authorities on the Middle East explores the common ground shared by Islam and the West. (ARB12, $19.99)
	Islam, A Short History  •  Karen Armstrong   • RELIGION  •  Armstrong brings authority and experience to this vivid, clear-headed survey of the history and impact of Islam from the birth of Muhammad to present-day challenges. A Modern Library Chronicles book. (ISL15, $14.95)
	Islam, The Straight Path  •  John L. Esposito   • RELIGION  •  A well-written survey of the faith, practice and beliefs of Islam. It's a balanced tome intended for an undergraduate audience, yet it also functions as an excellent overview for the general reader. (MDE22, $39.95)
	Kurdistan, In the Shadow of History  •  Susan Meiselas   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  (IRN57, $49.00)
	Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.  •  Daniel C. Snell   • HISTORY  •  From the dawn of the written word to conquest by Alexander the Great, the history of the ancient Middle East is traced in this readable, thoroughly researched overview of economic, social and cultural development in the world of the Bible. (MDE56, $22.00)
	Marching Toward Hell, America and Islam after Iraq  •  Michael Scheuer   • HISTORY  •  CIA veteran Scheuer argues that the ongoing instability in Iraq is beneficial for al Qaeda and recommends shifting American ideological, military and political views to get back on track. (ISL81, $27.00)
	Mesopotamia, Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians  •  Enrico Ascalone   • HISTORY  •  A clear, highly illustrated introduction to the history, culture and archaeological finds of the ancient Mesopotamians. (MDE118, $24.95)
	Overthrow, America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq  •  Stephen Kinzer   • HISTORY • NEW  •  In this compelling review of American adventures overseas, Kinzer crisply outlines the events, politics and personalities of 14 cases in which America has brought down foreign governments over the last 110 years. (USA148, $16.00)
	Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East  •  Rashid Khalidi   • HISTORY  •  A readable brief history of Arab foreign relations. Khalidi, a critic of the current turn-of-events, is professor of Arab studeis at Columbia University. (MDE87, $14.00)
	Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq  •  Larry Diamond   • HISTORY  •  Diamond's provocative first-hand account of how the American effort to establish democracy in Iraq was hampered not only by insurgents and terrorists but also by a long chain of miscalculations, missed opportunities and acts of ideological blindness. (IRQ22, $15.00)
	The Arab World, Forty Years of Change  •  Elizabeth Warnock and Rob Fernea  •  Thomas Hartwell   • HISTORY  •  An award-winning look at life in the Middle East, updated in the 1990s. The authors revisit towns and cities, paying close attention to how changes such as the Gulf War and Arab-Israeli peace negotiations have impacted daily life. (ARB33, $17.95)
	The Foreigner's Gift, The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq  •  Fouad Ajami   • HISTORY  •  Ajami delves beneath the familiar picture of Iraq -- a land where sectarianism clashes with fundamentalism, modernity with tradition, democracy with nationalism -- to get at the underlying truths of real Iraqis' lives and desires in this masterful portrait of the country. (IRQ21, $16.00)
	The Heirs of Mohammad, Islam's First Century and the Origins of the Sunni-shia Split  •  Barnaby Rogerson   • RELIGION  •  Rogerson transports the reader back to the 7th-century in this gripping tale of the intrigue, politics and personalities surrounding the division of Islam into Shia and Sunni factions. (ISL65, $27.95)
	The Middle East, A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years  •  Bernard Lewis   • HISTORY  •  A sweeping history of the Middle East of the last 2,000 years. Princeton historian Lewis concentrates on the social, cultural and economic changes that have taken place, and concludes with a note of pessimism about the future. (MDE26, $17.00)
	When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World  •  Hugh Kennedy   • HISTORY  •  Kennedy evokes the culture, politics and key figures of the Abbasid court in rich detail in this portrait of Baghdad at zenith of its power in the 8th and 9th centuries. (MDE85, $18.95)
	Islamic Arts  •  Jonathan Bloom  •  Sheila Blair   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A comprehensive survey of 1,000 years of Islamic architecture, design and decoration. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps and site plans. (ISL01, $24.95)
	A Vanished World  •  Wilfred Thesiger   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This stunning visual album of an unusually eventful life takes in Thesiger's travels and adventures in revolutionary Ethiopia and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, his time among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, his long stint living in Northern Kenya, and his long love affair with the Empty Quarter of Oman. (ARB56, $35.00)
	Baghdad Sketches  •  Freya Stark   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An account of a four-year sojourn in Iraq and Iran, the first of Dame Freya Stark's many travel books. (MDE75, $17.00)
	Baghdad Without a Map and other Misadventures in Arabia  •  Tony Horwitz   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The madcap tale of a modern journey through 14 countries of the Arab world by an unusually entertaining reporter. Horowitz captures the social and economic realities of the region with razor-sharp wit. (ARB07, $16.00)
	Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations  •  Georgina Howell   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The tale of intoxicating, intrepid Major Miss Bell, who made her home in Baghdad. She created modern Iraq with T. E. Lawrence and Churchill. (ARB82, $15.00)
	In Search of Islamic Feminism, One Woman's Global Journey  •  Elizabeth Warnock and Rob Fernea   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A professor heads to the Middle East in order to ask if feminism is possible under Islam. (ISL28, $15.95)
	The Desert and the Sown  •  Gertrude Bell  •  Rosemary O'Brien   • EXPLORATION  •  A fierce explorer and archaeologist, lyrical writer and cunning politician, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) spent much of her life traveling throughout present-day Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan & Israel. (MDE59, $12.95)
	The Prince of the Marshes, And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq  •  Rory Stewart   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A Farsi-speaking, absurdly well-traveled and adventurous British diplomat, Rory Stewart writes with understated wit of his 11-month stint as governor of the Maysan province in Iraq's rural south (he saw the province through to the transfer of sovereignty on June 28, 2004). This is the land of the Marsh Arabs, devastated during Saddam Hussein's regime, brought to the attention of the world by Wilfred Thesiger. (IRQ16, $15.00)
	Where God Was Born, A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories  •  Bruce Feiler   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This third of Feiler's books on the Bible and the Middle East, takes him to Israel, Iraq and Iran. He interweaves his own spiritual quest with interviews and an account of travels with archaeologist Avner Goren. (MDE91, $14.95)
	Gilgamesh, A New Rendering in English Verse  •  David Ferry   • LITERATURE  •  A lyrical translation of the ancient Mesopotamian epic. (IRQ02, $12.00)
	Land of Marvels  •  Barry Unsworth   • LITERATURE  •  Unsworth has written a powerful, relevant thriller in which one archaeologist, excavating an Assyrian palace, must navigate the scramble for influence and oil in 1914 Mesopotamia. (IRQ25, $26.00)
	Murder in Mesopotamia  •  Agatha Christie   • MYSTERY  •  Inspired by her visit to excavations at the ancient city of Ur, Christie fills this Hercule Poiroit mystery with details of archaeological work and life under extreme conditions at a dig. (IRQ20, $12.00)
	The Arabian Nights  •  Husain Haddawy   • LITERATURE  •  Translator Husain Haddawy grew up hearing his grandmothers' friends re-tell these tales on winter nights in Baghdad. A wonderful introduction to Islamic Andalucia, the tales, translated from the oldest remaining Arabic version, bring to life the culture and society of the Islamic world at its height. (ARB10, $16.95)
	The Arabian Nights II, Sinbad and Other Popular Stories  •  Husain Haddawy   • LITERATURE  •  Four popular tales as told by Scheherezade. (ARB51, $14.95)
	The Marsh Arabs  •  Wilfred Thesiger   • LITERATURE  •  Thesiger's masterful account of the distinctive customs, traditions and way of life of the Ma'dan, a once isolated, ancient people of the watery marsh and reeds of Southern Iraq. (IRQ19, $15.00)
	A Photographic Guide to Birds of Israel and the Middle East  •  Richard Porter  •  David M. Cottridge   • FIELD GUIDE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A convenient, pocket-sized guide to 252 species, covering the region from Turkey to Oman. (MDE54, $15.95)
	Birds of the Middle East  •  R.F. Porter  •  P. Schiermacker-Hansen  •  S. Christensen   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An outstanding guide to 700 species of the birds in the region from the Arabian peninsula to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Cyprus. (MDE17, $40.00)

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