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Middle East

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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Lubna and Pebble

Wendy Meddour

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SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History ...

Saul David

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Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire ...

John Man

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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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Broad in scope and geography, and written with deep knowledge.

The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East ...

Barnaby Rogerson

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The C10th synthesis of Greek thought in Central Asi. Starr's magnificent book is a cultural and intellectual history of the Islamic Enlightenment and its two chief proponents - Ibn Sina and ... read more

The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment ...

S. Frederick Starr

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The moral philosopher on the self-perpetuating violence of Israel and Palestine and the psychology of conflict. This has been hailed by voices from every side.

Israelis and Palestinians: From the Cycle of Violence to the Conversat ...

Jonathan Glover

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Highlights from this eye-watering collection of over 5,000 works of Islamic and Middle Eastern art. Exquisite.

Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Farjam Collection ...

Venetia Porter

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Highlights from this eye-watering collection of over 5,000 works of Islamic and Middle Eastern art. Exquisite.

Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Farjam Collection ...

Sheila R Canby

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The labours of Hercules are as nothing to those of archeo-botanists... tamarisk, red bryony, poplar etc and their role in traditional medicine - based on cuneiform inscriptions and intimate ... read more

An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal

Barbara Boeck

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An account of the isolated autocracy of Oman two years before the Sultan died in 1970; after this the state was modernised and opened up to the world.

Muscat and Oman: The End of an Era

Ian Skeet

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In a particularly elegant diplomatic gesture, the Caliph Harun al-Rashid sent an elephant to Aachen in 802 AD. This fresh perspective draws on many Arabic sources.

The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Cha ...

Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

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An account of Nasser's rise, the expulsion of Britain and France, and his influential legacy.

We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the ...

Alex Rowell

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McCullin has travelled 5,000 miles in Turkey with the rambunctious and knowledgeable Rogerson as his cicerone. The result is this truly magnificent book of photographs, beautifully produced ... read more

Don McCullin: Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor

Barnaby Rogerson

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The great historian of late antiquity mixes the personal with the scholarly in telling the story of his life and work. Engagement with the non-European world has been intrinsic to his work.

Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History

Peter Brown

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A compelling account of the world's first empire, drawing extensively on recent discoveries in the field with the use of new archaeological techniques.

Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire ...

Eckart Frahm

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The long shadow of Ottoman rule: Mestyan argues that new local polities were based on recalibrated Ottoman structures rather than on European colonialism (with the exception of Palestine).

Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Inte ...

Adam Mestyan

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Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt was the French archaeologist who, in the 1960s, faced down both de Gaulle and Nasser to dismantle and move a dozen temples - including the vast Abu Simbel - t... read more

Empress of the Nile: the Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’ ...

Lynne Olson

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