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Rather forgotten now, Pickthall was a convert to Islam who translated the Koran, defended the Ottomans and denounced Western meddling in the Middle East. He also wrote The Asiatics, a splend... read more

A Great English Muslim: The Life and Times of Marmaduke Pickthall ...

Jamie Gilham

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A revisionist account of the siege of Constantinople that argues that its fall was not a foregone conclusion, drawing on Latin, Italian, Greek, Russian, and Turkish eye-witness testimonies t... read more

1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople

Anthony Kaldellis

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From 1900 to the present, via the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel and the rise of the Saudis - and much else besides.

The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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A Syrian writer, Yazbek has gathered testimonies from encounters with witnesses to events in Gaza since October 2023.

Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza ...

Samar Yazbek

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The Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brown University engages with the history of Zionism, Israel's shift towards ethno-nationalism and the implications for international law.

Israel: What Went Wrong?

Omer Bartov

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From the nationalisation of oil in the 1940s and the overthrow of Mosaddeq in 1953 to the Revolution of 1979 and the present.

Iran and the Revolution: A History

Homa Katouzian

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A substantial reassessment of this great ancient city.

Babylon: the Mother of All Cities

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

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Crushed from within, bombed from without. It is remarkable that this testament from a resident Tehran academic has emerged.

Tehran Diaries: Dispatches from Iran under Siege

Raha Nik-Andish

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The brother of one of the authors was killed by Israeli forces; the other lost his parents in the Hamas attacks of 7th October '23.

The Future Is Peace

Aziz Abu Sarah

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By exploring the stories of six individuals, the authors trace Iran's history from the 1979 revolution to the Woman Life Freedom protests.

Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran ...

Bozorgmehr Sharafedin

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The author, who was born in Israel, sits on the board of the International Criminal Court in the Hague and is director of Forensic Architecture, a multi-disciplinary research organisation th... read more

Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

Eyal Weizman

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A complex tale of assumed identity and the fragmentation of the self under occupation. Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel by the Palestinian author was writt... read more

A Mask the Colour of the Sky

Bassem Khandaqji

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Compelling and mysterious, this is the story of a young Englishman in Iran in 1974 who falls in love with a Persian girl, only to be separated by the Revolution. It soon appears that the pr... read more

A Good Place To Die

James Buchan

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A novel composed of the connected stories of five women who all come together in a garden. Published in Iran in 1990 but written in the 1970s, this is its first publication in English. Parsi... read more

Women Without Men

Shahrnush Parsipur

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A readable and authoritative account of what has unfolded so far.

King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah and the Revolution That Forged Mod ...

Scott Anderson

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Rosenberg's family emigrated from Sweden to Israel in 1962. This is his memoir of that time, and his subsequent grappling with the hopes, doubts, mythologies, deceptions and erasures that he... read more

Israel

Göran Rosenberg

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Since its borders were drawn after the Ottoman collapse, Syria's history has often been violent. This substantial book endeavours to make sense of this complex, culturally rich place.

A History of Modern Syria

Daniel Neep

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Historic as well as contemporary work from all over the world, with a particular interest in their cultural narratives. Large format, wonderfully illustrated and scholarly.

Threads of Time: A Cultural Journey: Textiles from Around the World ...

Daniel Brewster

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Palestine is Everywhere

Skye Arundhati Thomas

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The first-person account of a Palestinian man in his thirties, whose everyday existence is disrupted by the brutal realities of war and occupation.

Who Will Tell My Story? A Gaza Diary

Anonymous

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A collection of frontline reportage, poetry, photography and art.

Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

Fatima Bhutto

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An erudite account of Islam from the end of the C19th to the present day: the effect of European imperialism and the shift from subjection to agency.

Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

Faisal Devji

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Dimbleby went to Palestine as a reporter in the 1970s with his colleague Don McCullin. Triggered by Golda Meir's statement that Palestinians 'do not exist,' they sought to show that they did... read more

The Palestinians

Jonathan Dimbleby

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Operating out of Cairo's Savoy hotel, the British Empire's Middle Eastern intelligence section faced unique challenges during WW1. This is the compelling account of how it navigated the nuan... read more

The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain’s Most Ingenious Intellige ...

Eamonn Gearon

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A meticulously researched history of Gaza, from 1948 to the present catastrophe.

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Anne Irfan

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The Shah was the victor in a power struggle with his prime minister in 1953, following a coup masterminded by Britain and the United States. This is the political history of that turning poi... read more

The Economic Modernisation of Iran, 1953-1968: Architects, Agents, and ...

Ali Rahnema

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Considers the precise nature of war crimes and the world's ambivalent responses - or complicity. Robertson KC has represented, amongst many others, Julian Assange, Salman Rushdie and the cur... read more

Eyeless in Gaza: Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes

Geoffrey Robertson

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Chronicles the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, which was catalyzed by the death of Mahsa Jina Amini following her arrest and beating for not wearing her hijab properly.

For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-led Upr ...

Nilo Tabrizy

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Hisham was invited to give this year's lectio magistralis at the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2024, in the church of Santa Croce in Florence. Sandoe's is proud to publish his essay based on that... read more

To Know and To Know Not

Hisham Matar

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A readable and authoritative account of what has unfolded so far.

King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and t ...

Scott Anderson

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Begins with the Nakba of 1948.

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Anne Irfan

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An astonishing study from disparate sources of a little-understood phenomenon.

Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in t ...

Justin Marozzi

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Persiana: Recipes from the Middle East & Beyond ...

Sabrina Ghayour

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Western meddling of course but some grounds for optimism too.

The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Midd ...

Fawaz A. Gerges

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Nearly 600 pieces of glass from the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Middle East dating between 1500 BCE and 1000 CE: the lavishly ilustrated catalogue of the stupendous Getty collectio... read more

Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Anastassios Antonaras

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Vegetarian home-cooking by the co-author of Jerusalem, Falastin. He's also one half of the Ottolenghi chain of delicatessens.

Boustany: A celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine ...

Sami Tamimi

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