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Cookbook Bavel: Modern Recipes Inspired by the Middle East Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis with Lesley Suter
Nonfiction Proof of Life: Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East Daniel Levin
Nonfiction Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future Ami Ayalon
Nonfiction Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire Raphael D. Marcus
Nonfiction Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award
Nonfiction The Doha Experiment: Arab Kingdom, Catholic College, Jewish Teacher Gary Wasserman
Essay Can Peace Really Be Achieved Through a Shared Cuisine? Yael Raviv is the author of Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel. She will be blogging here all week as part of the Visiting Scribe… Yael Raviv November 2, 2015
