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New Open-Access Journal

Palestine/Israel Review

Sonia Boulos and Atalia Omer, Editors

Graphic Mundi titles

Hakim’s Odyssey

Book 1: From Syria to Turkey

Fabien Toulmé, and Translated by Hannah Chute

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ISBN: 978-1-63779-000-7

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272 pages
6.5" × 9"
2021

Iranian Love Stories

Script by Jane Deuxard, Art by Deloupy, and Translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger

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ISBN: 978-1-63779-004-5

144 pages
8" × 10"
2021

6,000 Miles to Freedom

Two Boys and Their Flight from the Taliban

Stéphane Marchetti, Illustrated by Cyrille Pomès, and Translated by Hannah Chute

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ISBN: 978-1-63779-021-2

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128 pages
7.5" × 11.625"
2022

Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches

Yazan Al-Saadi, Illustrated by Tracy Chahwan, Ganzeer, Ghadi Ghosn, Omar Khouri, Sirène Moukheiber, Hicham Rahma, and Enas Satir

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ISBN: 978-1-63779-078-6

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160 pages
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2025

The Flavors of Iraq

Impressions of My Vanished Homeland

Feurat Alani, Illustrated by Léonard Cohen, Translated by Kendra Boileau, and Foreword by Ross Caputi

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ISBN: 978-1-63779-067-0

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176 pages
5.875" × 9.375"
2024

PSU Press

Enemies, a Love Story

Mizrahi-Arab-Ashkenazi Relations Since the Dawn of Zionism

Hillel Cohen, Translated by Haim Watzman

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09995-8

420 pages
6" × 9"
2025

Architectural Revolution on the Ottoman Frontier

Greece and Albania in the Age of Ali Pasha

Emily Neumeier

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09774-9

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232 pages
9" × 10"
47 color/52 b&w illustrations
2025

Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

Saint George Between Empires

Image and Encounter in the Medieval East

Heather A. Badamo

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09522-6

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264 pages
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24 color/48 b&w illustrations/3 maps
2024

Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media

Edited by Brahim El Guabli and Mostafa Hussein

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09755-8

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244 pages
6" × 9"
7 b&w illustrations
2024

Isfahan

Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran

Farshid Emami

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09552-3

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276 pages
9" × 10"
45 color/60 b&w illustrations
2024

Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

The Accidental Palace

The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

Deniz Türker

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09391-8

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272 pages
9" × 10"
25 color/73 b&w illustrations/4 maps
2023

Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

Marrakesh and the Mountains

Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib

Abbey Stockstill

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09676-6

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168 pages
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50 color/22 b&w illustrations
2024

Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

Qayrawān

The Amuletic City

William Gallois

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09527-1

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208 pages
8" × 9.5"
100 b&w illustrations
2024

Refiguring Modernism

Jews of Iran

A Photographic Chronicle

Hassan Sarbakhshian, Lior B. Sternfeld, and Parvaneh Vahidmanesh

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09264-5

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128 pages
8.66" × 8.66"
101 color illustrations/1 map
2022

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Deep Knowledge

Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions

Oludamini Ogunnaike

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08690-3

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08691-0

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480 pages
7" × 10"
4 b&w illustrations
2020

Africana Religions

Sorcery or Science?

Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts

Ariela Marcus-Sells

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09229-4

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09230-0

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232 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
4 b&w illustrations/1 map
2022

Magic in History

Metaphysical Africa

Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

Michael Muhammad Knight

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08709-2

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09451-9

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314 pages
6" × 9"
37 b&w illustrations
2020

Africana Religions

Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École

Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power

Jessica Clare Gerschultz

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08318-6

272 pages
9" × 9.5"
42 color/79 b&w illustrations
2019

Refiguring Modernism

The Persian Revival

The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture

Talinn Grigor

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08943-0

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280 pages
7" × 10"
75 b&w illustrations
2021

DisOrientations

German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811–1946

Kristin Dickinson

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08984-3

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08985-0

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270 pages
6" × 9"
2021

Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe

Hagia Sophia

Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium

Bissera V. Pentcheva

Was: $40.95 With code: $24.57 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07726-0

304 pages
7" × 10"
50 color/42 b&w illustrations
2017

Mediterranean Encounters

Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–1839

Elisabeth A. Fraser

Was: $51.95 With code: $31.17 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08506-7

320 pages
9" × 10"
43 color/98 b&w illustrations
2017

Eisenbrauns

A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East

Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam

Douglas R. Frayne and Johanna H. Stuckey, and with illustrations by Stéphane D. Beaulieu

Was: $89.95 With code: $53.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-837-4

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ISBN: 978-1-64602-121-5

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448 pages
7" × 10"
66 b&w illustrations
2021

A Concise History of Ancient Israel

From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era

Bernd U. Schipper, Translated by Michael Lesley

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ISBN: 978-1-57506-732-2

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184 pages
6" × 9"
11 b&w illustrations
2019

Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible

Identity in Persian Egypt

The Fate of the Yehudite Community of Elephantine

Bob Becking

Was: $90.95 With code: $54.57 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-57506-745-2

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ISBN: 978-1-64602-244-1

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224 pages
6" × 9"
2020

The Road Taken

An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible

Seymour (Sy) Gitin

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ISBN: 978-1-64602-134-5

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256 pages
6" × 9"
46 b&w illustrations
2021

The Tomb of Parennefer, Butler of Pharaoh Akhenaten

Theban Tomb 188

Susan Redford

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ISBN: 978-1-64602-192-5

200 pages
8.5" × 11"
30 color/81 b&w illustrations
2022

Camels in the Biblical World

Martin Heide and Joris Peters

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ISBN: 978-1-64602-136-9

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432 pages
6" × 9"
65 b&w illustrations
2021

History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant

The American Institute of Iranian Studies

Half a Century of Foundational Research

Edited by Erica Ehrenberg

Was: $49.95 With code: $29.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-1-64602-307-3

360 pages
6" × 9"
9 color/11 b&w illustrations
2025

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