Understanding Arabs, 6th Edition by Margaret K. Nydell
Call Number: DS 36.77 .N93 2018
ISBN: 9781473669970
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
A counter-point to prevailing assumptions about Arab culture, the 6th edition of this seminal work is a timely, lucid, and engaging guide to the values and cultures of the Arab world, based on Dr. Nydell's decades of working and living in the region, and her training as a professional linguist for the US State Department.
Arab Voices by James Zogby
Call Number: DS 36.7 .Z64 2010
ISBN: 9780230102996
Publication Date: 2010-10-12
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The Arab World is a region that has been vastly misunderstood in the West. Arab Voices asks the questions, collects the answers, and shares the results that will help us see Arabs clearly. The book will bring into stark relief the myths, assumptions, and biases that hold us back from understanding this important people.
The Arabs by Heinz Halm; Allison Brown (Translator); Thomas Lampert (Translator)
Call Number: DS 37.7 .H3513 2007
ISBN: 1558764178
Publication Date: 2006-11-01
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"While short in length, this book is wide in scope and range, both historically and geographically, covering the Arab peoples (that is, the more than 280 million people in North Africa and the Middle East who speak Arabic) from their pre-Islamic origins and the first recorded use of the term Arab to today's troubles in Iraq."--Library Journal
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