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	Time Out Dubai and the UAE  •   Time Out GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES A practical guide in the popular series by the editors of the where to go and what to do magazine. (ARB81, $19.95)
	Culture Smart! UAE  •  John Walsh GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 168 PAGES A concise and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (ARB100, $9.95)
	Islam, A Short History  •  Karen Armstrong RELIGION •  2002 •  PAPER  • 230 PAGES A clear-headed, vivid survey of the history and impact of Islam from the birth of Muhammad to present day challenges. With timeline, glossary, biographies of major figures and bibliography. Armstrong brings authority and experience to the challenge. A member of the Association of Muslim Social Services in Jerusalem, she's a former Roman Catholic nun who teaches Judaism. (ISL15, $14.95)
	United Arab Emirates Map  •   MapLink MAP A shaded relief map of UAE on a 1:750,000 scale. Two Sides. 26x36 inches. (ARB20, $21.95)

	Dubai Map  •   Geoprojects    •  A folded traveler's map of Dubai at a scale of 1:25,000. (ARB64, $18.95)
	Dubai, UAE, Qatar & Bahrain Dubai and United Arab Emirates Map  •   World Mapping Project    •  A double-sided map of these Arabian Gulf countries at a detailed scale of 1:470,000. (ARB71, $9.99)
	Eyewitness Top 10 Dubai and Abu Dhabi  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions. (ARB95, $14.00)
	Lonely Planet Oman, UAE, & Arabian Peninsula  •   Lonely Planet Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide to the gulf states includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. (ARB87, $29.99)
	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)
	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, 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)
	Multiple Identities of the Middle East  •  Bernard Lewis   • HISTORY  •  Lewis illuminates the clash of old and new in the Middle East in this collection of essays on the many layers of language, history and religion in the region. (MDE29, $12.00)
	Storm from the East, The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West  •  Milton Viorst   • HISTORY  •  A brief history of contemporary Arabia and the uneasy relationship with the West in the excellent Modern Library Chronicles series by a journalist and senior scholar at the Middle East Institute. (ARB75, $13.95)
	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)
	Arabian Sands  •  Wilfred Thesiger  •  Rory Stewart   • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE  •  The last of the great British traveler-explorers, Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) journeyed among the nomadic camel-breeding peoples of Southern Arabia in the late 1940s, falling in love with the desert and ways of life of the Bedouin. This eloquent book is his tribute to them. (ARB15, $16.00)
	Motoring with Mohammed, Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea  •  Eric Hansen   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Classic travel writing: insightful, personal, informative, entertaining, and a wonderful introduction to life on the Arabian Peninsula. Ten years after he was shipwrecked aboard a sailboat in the Red Sea, the intrepid Hansen returns to Yemen in search of a journal he buried in the sand. (ARB11, $14.95)
	The Naked Tourist, In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall  •  Lawrence Osborne   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Osborne is not just interested in travel, but also in the reasons why we travel, layering his own entertaining adventures on the road from Dubai to India, Bangkok, Bali and beyond with ruminations on Shangri-La, The Grand Tour and our conceptions of the exotic and primitive. (SEA50, $14.00)
	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, $17.95)

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