Cune Press is pleased to present engaging nonfiction on the Middle East and other topics of public importance. We specialize in memoir, travelogue, and history for thoughtful readers. We produce just a few titles every year and expect them to last. Please send us your thoughts, or contact us for shipping outside the US. Email: info@cunepress.com.

Syria - Ballots or Bullets?
Dr. Carsten Wieland

Neocons close to the US administration are pushing for military action against Syria, as a supplier of Hezbollah. On the other hand, reformers within Syria are becoming more aggresive in seeking change. Will Syria emerge as a democracy? Or will it descend into the chaos that has engulfed neighboring Lebanon and Iraq?

Kisses from a Distance
Raff Ellis

This true story begins in 1895 at a Lebanese mountain convent where a young girl is abducted and forced into a marriage. This gripping memoir, follows events that cascade from this beginning through the lives of three generations and trace a journey from Lebanon to America.

The Road from Damascus
Scott C. Davis

An American traveling alone meets smugglers, mystics, revolutionaries, Bedouins, wise men, secret police - and other ordinary Syrians. The author meets Hezbollah militants on vacation and confronts an angry Iranian strongman. A street-level view of a pivotal yet little-known country. Provides a window onto the Middle East for lay readers.

A Pen of Damascus Steel
Ali Farzat

Ali Farzat is the "Shakespeare" of Arab political cartoonists. His caricatures examine the flaws of Arab government and society. They also look out at a world gone mad. Most of all, they put us in touch with sympathetic Arab men and women who live patient lives behind the media stereotypes.