Middle east

The underlying thesis of the out-of-print, sought-after volume 'Generation Dubai. Exit, Voice and Loyalty' by Bijan KHEZRI is that the world is defined by economics, not laws. And there is hardly any other place in the world than Dubai to illustrate this.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., b/w (intro) & color (main part) ills., English

In his out-of-print photo volume, 'Impasse Hotel Syria', Krass CLEMENT does without any text, because the pictures leave no question unanswered. The very personal travel and photo book describes the recent past of the country in pictures taken since 2001

Author Book Award 2021. The book 'Freedom Is Not Free' by Mashid MOHADJERIN, accompanies an exhibition that explores the private and public worlds of Iranian women who grew up after the 1979 revolution, and significant places from the artist's childhood.

The opulent photo volume 'Desert of Pharan. Unofficial stories behind the mass expansion of Mecca' by Ahmed MATER offers a unique access to this site and the associated social and religious rituals as well as the planned architectural urban development.

This book, 'Baghdad Calling' by Geert van KESTEREN, is an appeal to the Western coalition. It shows everyday life in Iraq in 2006/07 through hundreds of photographs taken with cell phones or digital cameras, showing places that journalists dared not enter

'Salt Pans' by Edward BURTYNSKY explores industrial landscapes all over the world. The book consists of 31 aerial color photographs of the salt pans in the Little Rann of Kutch. These striking geometric images were created over 10 days from a helicopter.

Swiss bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 1 cm., 112 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 450 copies, 50 signed copies

'Ha Aretz' by Roger GRASAS is carefully researched and shows photos from all the territories that belong to the Holy Land, documenting the settings of the most important narratives of the Holy Scriptures, whose relevance is also described in a booklet.