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  • Abba Eban: An Autobiography

    by Abba Eban ...
    “An autobiography that makes compelling reading... Eban’s words and deeds derive from his commitment to the principle of partition [of ancient Palestine]... Eban’s testament is not only elegant, but timely.” — James Chace, The New York Times“A ‘compelling’ and well-written autobiography by the former foreign minister of Israel that ‘dramatizes the debates within the Zionist movement that has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Voice of Israel

    by Abba Eban ...
    Voice of Israel is a collection of Abba Eban’s speeches before the United Nations’ Security Council and General Assembly, at universities and other venues between 1948 and 1968. Eban addresses Israel’s position on security in the Middle East, the Arab refugee problem, Jerusalem and the Holy Places, freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal and the Straights of Tiran, border clashes, American ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Diary of a Country Prosecutor

    by Tawfik al-Hakim ...
    Translated by Abba Eban ...
    Series Book 12 - Saqi BookShelf
    1920s Cairo. A young and ambitious prosecutor is dispatched from the bustling city to a provincial village to investigate a serious crime. Armed with his European education, the prosecutor is confident that he will dispense justice in this rural outpost. But he finds himself increasingly befuddled by an alien legal system and the clueless bureaucrats who enforce it. As he teases out the facts of ... Read more

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    Voices of History Israel: A Country with Its Institutions

    by Shlomo Goren, Abba Eban, Avraham Harman, Moshe Landau, Kalman Mann, Zvi Kaspi0, Nahum Pessin2, Sister Selma4, Meyer W. Weisgal6 ...
    Narrated by Shlomo Goren, Abba Eban, Avraham Harman, Moshe Landau, Kalman Mann, Zvi Kaspi1, Nahum Pessin3, Sister Selma5, Meyer W. Weisgal7 ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Voices of History Israel

    Unabridged

    3 hours 37 min

    See Israel like you never have before with this comprehensive and fascinating guide to modern history.Never before released audio programs!Throughout the 1970's Dr. Samuel J. Citron took it upon himself to interview leading authorities on special topics in contemporary Jewish history, mostly relating to the State of Israel.Over the course of ten years of painstaking work, he completed the immense ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    by Freidoune Sahebjam ...
    Translated by Richard Seaver ...
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  • Shame

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    Translated by Roger Allen ...
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  • Honour Killing

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  • The Days

    His Autobiography in Three Parts

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  • In the Shadow of Islam

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    An extraordinary evocation of the desert and its people by a woman who dressed as a man in order to travel alone and unimpeded throughout North AfricaIn 1897 Isabelle Eberhardt, at the age of 20, left an already unconventional life in Geneva for the Morroccan frontier. Gripped by spiritual restlessness and the desire to break free from the confinements of her society she traveled into the desert, ... Read more

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