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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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An elucidating account of the conditions that led to, and subsequently shaped the Iraq war. This book casts a light on both CIA intrigue in the Middle East and Hussein's own political motiva... read more

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle Ea ...

Steve Coll

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Photographs from Lee Miller's trips to Egypt in the 1930s, with accompanying texts by Mounir Neamatalla.

Entracte Siwa

Mounir Neamatalla

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Intimate insights into the lives of others, by a redoubtable scholar of cuneiform.

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Moudhy Al-Rashid

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From the C18th to today.

Saudi Arabia: A Modern History

David Commins

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The Swedish ecologist, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, proves how Israel's attack on Gaza is not just a humanitarian but an environmental crisis. H... read more

The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth ...

Andreas Malm

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Already attracting immense praise, this remarkable book poses many uncomfortable questions.

The World After Gaza

Pankaj Mishra

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Salt desert, bazaars, dried-up river beds, neon lights, ancient ruins and bus stops: Seiland's photographs balance tradition with modernity, the sparse and the rich, luminous and varied. Lar... read more

Iran: Between the Times

Alfred Seiland

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A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict ...

Ilan Pappe

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Eleven essays from perhaps the greatest Israeli writer; one of the most brilliant, attentive and humane commentators on this appalling conundrum.

The Thinking Heart: On Israel and Palestine

David Grossman

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Fine black and white photographic portraits of olive trees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ancient fixed points in these disputed places but vulnerable to upheaval and destruction.

Anchor in the Landscape

Adam Broomberg

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The best place to eat in Mardin, Yeats and Ibn Battuta, the ancient wonders of Antakya, Gaziantep, Diyarbakir, Göbeklitepe and Karahan Tepe... Layers of empires, peoples, cultures in the la... read more

An Irishman in Northern Mesopotamia: A Journey of Discovery in South-E ...

Nicholas Mackey

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From ancient Sumer to the slaughter of the last royal family on the palace steps in Baghdad in 1958.

Land Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq ...

Bartle Bull

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The book that the late, great journalist on the Middle East was writing when he died in 2020. With a post-script by Fisk's widow, Nelofer Pazira-Fisk.

Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East

Robert Fisk

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From Late Antiquity to the C19th, with an epilogue taking us (almost) to the present. From the Atlantic to the Pacific.

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Moderni ...

Michael A. Cook

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An account of a pivotal moment in the Middle East, when thousands of Christians were massacred by Ottoman forces - a harbinger for upheavals to come.

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old ...

Eugene Rogan

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