New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956. Hardcover. Vg/Vg- Dj with light edge and surface wear/8vo./textblock lightly browned/386 pp. Middle East. MID/5212. Very Good. More

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./contents bright and clean/448 pp./Review copy with slip laid-in. Middle East. MID/5212. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More

Washington D.C. Brassey's, Inc., 2002. Hardcover. Mint in mint red and blue dust jacket with white title to front panel and to black spine panel. Like new. 295 pages. Includes section of notes for each chapter. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photos. Middle Eastern History. MID/8132. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj with light edgewear/8vo./359 pp. Middle East. MID/5152. Very Good. More

Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1984. Hardcover. Amine Gemayel (born 1942) was president of Lebanon from 1982-1988. His brother, Bachir, has been elected president in early 1982, but was assassinated, after which Amine was elected to the office. He was endorsed by both the United States and Israel. Lebanon had been in a state of conflict for the previous 8 years, including Israel's occupation of Southern Lebanon in early 1982. With international support, Gemayel was able to negotiate for the withdrawal of Israeli forces. However, the Gemayel government did not have a lot of authority over competing factions. Today southern Lebanon is under the control of Hezbollah, a significant force in the regional conflict. This book consists of the speeches by Gemayel in the first 1 1/2 years of his presidency. Their emphasis is on maintaining the unity of Lebanon's multicultural and multireligious population and on achieving peace in the region. Octavo. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior. Blue dust jacket with yellow title to front panel and to spine. Very minor wear to edges of jacket. 186 pages. Middle East. MIDEAST/020508. Fine / Very Good. More

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is subtitled "The story of Lillian Trasher and her 50 years of missionary work with the orphan children of Egypt." Trasher (1887-1961) was an American Christian missionary in Egypt. Born in Florida, she became a member of the Holiness-Pentacostal faith and worked in a Faith orphanage in her teens. Breaking off a marriage engagement, she decided that her purpose was to perform missionary work in Egypt. There she was influenced early on by the death of a mother who left a baby daughter with no one to care for her. Trasher determined to do so, and eventually established an orphanage in Assiout. Trasher worked with the orphan children of Egypt for 50 years, up until her death in 1961. The Lillian Trasher Orphanage continues in existence today, run by the Assemblies of God with support from various churches in Egypt. This biography of Trasher was published one year before her death. Octavo. Orange cloth-covered boards with blue title to spine. Gray dust jacket with title in orange to front and spine panels. Front board has a scratch near the bottom. Sunning to spine panel of dust jacket, and a rubbing and a small closed tear on jacket. Jacket is price-clipped. Endpapers are yellowed, but text block is bright and clean. Previous owner's name and address on front free endpaper. 224 pages. MIDEAST/6272. Very Good / Very Good. More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. Hardcover. 1st English Edition. SCARCE. Very good. Dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor fading to title. Slight yellowing and foxing along the edges of pages and foxing to edges of text block, but otherwise clean with several maps throughout. Index, 339 pages. Middle Eastern History. MID/6272. Very Good. More

New York: Atheneum, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Roderick MacLeish was a television and radio commentator for Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, and later for CBS, NPR, and the Christian Science Monitor. He was a correspondent internationally for many years, including in the Middle East. This book is about the Three Day War of 1967, and was published in the same year. MacLeish was sent by Westinghouse to cover the situation in May 1967. He first visited Cairo and then arrived in Tel Aviv on June 4. The war broke out on June 5. This book covers the conflict from the perspective of both sides and discusses its historical roots. Octavo. Orange cloth-covered boards over red cloth-covered spine. Title in gilt on spine and blind-stamped on front cover. Black dust-jacket with title in yellow and orange to front panel and in yellow to spine panel. Jacket is price-clipped and has small closed tear at top of front panel, plus minor bumping around edges. Pages are bright and clean. 174 pages. MIDEAST/8202. Very Good / Very Good. More

New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. Hardcover. Howard Sachar (1928-2018) was an American historian and a professor at the Department of History and the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University for 40 years He also served as a visiting professor at Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, and founded Brandeis University's Jacob Hiatt Institute in Jerusalem. This book provides the historical context of the relationship between Egyptians and Jews that led up to Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel and 1977 and the subsequent Camp David accords negotiated by Menachim Begin, Sadat, and Jimmy Carter. This history begins with Zionist visits to the Sinai in 1903 and continues through the world wars and into the Cold War era when Egypt was courted by the Soviet Union. The dramatic breakthrough occurred after the change of leadership in the two countries from Nasser and Ben-Gurion. Octavo. Brown paper-covered boards with black cloth cover to spine. Gilt title to spine. Dark brown dust jacket with title in light brown to front and spine panels. Jacket is price-clipped and has a small open tear at top right front panel. Pages are bright and clean. 384 pages, including index. MIDEAST/6202. Fine / Very Good. More

World Islamic Call Society, 1989. Hardcover. Scarce and interesting item from this Islamic organization. The World Islamic Call Society was established in 1972. It was led and funded by leading elements of the Gaddafi regime and comprised 250 Islamic organizations governed by a General Congress. It is believed that the society played a double-game by promoting Libyan interests as well as acting as a religious charity. One of its main focuses was to promote a version of Islam opposed to interfaith co-existence and seeking the establishment of a single - Islamic - religion. At the end of the Libyan civil war it was announced that some elements of the society would be purged, but that it would still serve as a religious charity. The calendar text is in both Arabic and English. It begins with a mission statement and an overview of its organizational structure. The rest of the volume is a conventional calendar with two days per page. Most interesting are the 32 color photographs, of which 16 are of Muammar Gaddafi, "the muslim leader." The other photos are of mosques, meetings, and one showing "traces of an American raid on Tripoli."

Bound in dark green cloth with title in silver, in English on front cover and Arabic on the rear. Nothing written in. In near fine condition. Unpaginated. Near Fine. More

Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1967. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./267 pp. Middle East. MID4/4192. Very Good. More