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If you loved The Arabs by Peter Mansfield, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Middle Eastern Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Social Science.

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Writing the Ottomans Turkish History in Early Modern England — Anders Ingram

Writing the Ottomans Turkish History in Early Modern England

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

The War in Court Inside the Long Fight Against Torture — Lisa Hajjar

The War in Court Inside the Long Fight Against Torture

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

The Closed Circle An Interpretation of the Arabs — David Pryce-Jones

The Closed Circle An Interpretation of the Arabs

David Pryce-Jones

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

The Hemshin History, Society and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey — Hovann Simonian

The Hemshin History, Society and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey

Hovann Simonian

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

The Tsar’s Armenians A Minority in Late Imperial Russia — Onur Önol

The Tsar’s Armenians A Minority in Late Imperial Russia

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

The Arabs A History — Eugene L. Rogan

The Arabs A History

Eugene L. Rogan

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

Seven Pillars of Wisdom — Thomas Edward Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Thomas Edward Lawrence

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

For the War Yet to Come Planning Beirut’s Frontiers — Hiba Bou Akar

For the War Yet to Come Planning Beirut’s Frontiers

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

The Politics of Race and Racialisation in the Middle East — Burcu Ozcelik

The Politics of Race and Racialisation in the Middle East

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

Ethnocracy Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine — Oren Yiftachel

Ethnocracy Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

The Hebrew Orient Palestine in Jewish American Visual Culture, 1901-1938 — Jessica L. Carr

The Hebrew Orient Palestine in Jewish American Visual Culture, 1901-1938

Jessica L. Carr

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

The Killing of Gaza Reports on a Catastrophe — Gideon Levy

The Killing of Gaza Reports on a Catastrophe

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

A Literary History of the Arabs — Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

A Literary History of the Arabs

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

Arab and Jew Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land — David K. Shipler

Arab and Jew Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

David K. Shipler

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

Bedouin of Mount Sinai An Anthropological Study of Their Political Economy — Emanuel Marx

Bedouin of Mount Sinai An Anthropological Study of Their Political Economy

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

The New Crusades Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun

The New Crusades Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims

Khaled A. Beydoun

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

Seven Pillars of Wisdom A Triumph — T. E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom A Triumph

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

America in JeruSALEm — First, Anat

America in JeruSALEm

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

Heat, a History Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet — On Barak

Heat, a History Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire — Richard E. Antaramian

Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire

Richard E. Antaramian

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts Feminism, Inter/nationalism, and Palestine — Nada Elia

Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts Feminism, Inter/nationalism, and Palestine

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

Iranian Immigration to Israel History and Voices, in the Shadow of Kings — Ali Ezzatyar

Iranian Immigration to Israel History and Voices, in the Shadow of Kings

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

My Brother, My Land A Story from Palestine — Sami Hermez

My Brother, My Land A Story from Palestine

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

Egyptian Revolution 2.0 Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism — M. el-Nawawy

Egyptian Revolution 2.0 Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism

Themes: Middle Eastern Studies • Ethnic Studies • Social Science

If The Arabs by Peter Mansfield is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Middle Eastern Studies, Ethnic Studies, Social Science and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Anders Ingram, Lisa Hajjar, David Pryce-Jones, Hovann Simonian, and others.

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