Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old huntress Zafira must disguise herself as a man to seek a lost artifact that could return magic to her cursed world. Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-- but neither...

La abundancia de opiniones en torno a Medio Oriente no ha resultado en una mejor comprensión de esa parte del mundo, ni mucho menos de la cultura árabe. Por el contrario, el ruido mediático ha alentado prejuicios, malentendidos, lugares comunes y sentencias morales. En este contexto, se vuelve imprescindible una reflexión más detenida, que permita sentar las bases para pensar Medio Oriente con claridad. En un escenario donde se entrecruzan nervios...

"Eleven powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from a more peaceful time in 1990s Israel to the recent beheadings of reporters by ISIS.With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well...

CIA operative David Shirazi has his work cut out for him when he is sent to Tehran to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program and avoid triggering an apocalyptic war; meanwhile, rumors of a mysterious religious cleric who claims to be an Islamic messiah is spreading globally.

"Cuando la modelo Kerl se quedó atrapada con el guapísimo guardaespaldas Jay Llnur, pronto se dio cuenta de que pertenecían a mundos diferentes. Pero los polos opuestos se atraían ... y ella abandonó la pasarela por un paseo por el lado salvaje. La pasión los arrastró por completo. De vuelta a la realidad, Kerl descubrió que Jay no era lo que parecía: además de un cuerpo increíble, tenía cerebro y mucho dinero. Y aunque el matrimonio era...

Traces the history of Sumeria, Babylon, Assyria, Israel, Persia, Greece, and Rome from the Neolithic Age until the spread of Christianity.