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Color photographs present a portrait of China today.

A look at Pakistan, its culture, customs, history, and contemporary life.

Surveys the history and religious importance of Saudi Arabia, and examines current customs in cuisine, music and dance, art, literature, and the media.

The author presents his observations on life in the People's Republic of China, based on a six-month visit in 1972.

In The Iranians, eminent Middle East expert Sandra Mackey brings us invaluable understanding of a complex, contradictory, and sometimes volatile people. Beginning with the ancient Persian empires that ruled from India to Greece and later humbled mighty Rome, and tracking the waves of invasions that culminated in the triumph of the Arabs under the banner of Islam, Mackey delineates the opposing poles of identity and power that have vied for the Iranian...

An account of the kidnapping of Charles Glass in 1987 in a Shiite Muslim suburb of Beirut and of his daring escape 62 days later.

"The pilgrimage to Mecca, or the Hajj, is a journey all Muslims are enjoined to make once in their lifetimes. Its purpose is to detach human beings from their homes and, by bringing them to Islam's birthplace, to emphasize the equality of all people before God. Since its inception in the seventh century, the Hajj has been the central theme in a large body of Islamic travel literature. Beginning with the European Renaissance, it has also been the subject...