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Engel, Richard

Summary: "Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 ENG

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.05 ENG

Aston, Felicity

Summary: "The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.911 AST

Williams, Emma.

Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, EMMA WIL

Nammar, Jacob J.

Summary: Autobiography of a boy who grew up in Palestine, endured the Nakba, and ultimately moved to Texas to start a new life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NAMMAR, JACOB J. NAM

Alabed, Bana

Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALA

Mendez, Jonna

7 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2024

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Brennan, John O.

Summary: Brennan pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the Central Intelligence Agency, describing the selfless, patriotic, and invisible work of the women and men involved in national security. He also examines the insularity, arrogance, and myopia that have, at times, undermined its reputation in the eyes of the American people and of members of other branches of government. He brings the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRENNAN, JOHN O BRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B BRENNAN BRE

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