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What Have You Left Behind?

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Bushra al-MaqtariPaperback, 204 pages9781804270011   In 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civil...

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Tribes and Politics in Yemen

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Marieke BrandtPaperback, 480 pages9781911723424   A History of the Houthi Conflict   This is the first rigorous history of the long-running Houthi ...

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The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know

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James GelvinPaperback, 192 pages9780197622094   In the second edition of The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know, renowned Middle East sch...

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The Huthi Movement in Yemen

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Abdullah Hamidaddin (Editor)Paperback, 312 pages9780755644285   Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf   The Huthi rebels in Yemen are a ...

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Christians and Jews Under Islam

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Youssef Courbage, Philippe Fargues Paperback 9781788310390   From the Arab Conquests to the Lebanese Civil War   Focusing on the Arab World and Tur...

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A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War

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Ghaith Abdul-AhadPaperback, 480 pages9781529151534   This is the story of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniac leader who shape...

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Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s

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Ulrike Freitag, William Clarence-Smith (editors)Hardback, 392 pages9789004107717   This volume covers the long neglected history of Hadhramaut (sou...

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Hezbollah: A Short History

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Augustus Richard Norton Paperback 9780691180885   With Hezbollah’s entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syri...

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Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War

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Robert FiskPaperback, 752 pages9780192801302   Pity the Nation ranks among the classic accounts of war in our time, both as historical document and...

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The Untold Story of the Golan Heights

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Michael Mason, Munir Fakher Eldin, Muna Dajani, EditorsPaperback, 248 pages9780755644520   Occupation, Colonization and Jawlani Resistance   In 196...

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Brokers of Deceit: How the US has Undermined Peace in the Middle East

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Rashid KhalidiPaperback, 208 pages9780807033241   An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace p...

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The Yom Kippur War and the Airlift Strike That Saved Israel

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Walter J. BoynePaperback, 352 pages9780312320423   Walter J. Boyne's The Yom Kippur War is a spellbinding chronicle of the international chess game...

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Preaching Islamic Renewal: Religious Authority and Media in Contemporary Egypt

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Jacquelene G. BrintonPaperback, 280 pages9780520287006   Preaching Islamic Renewal examines the life and work of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha'rawi, one of...

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Eighteen Days in October

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Uri KaufmanHardback, 400 pages9781250281883   The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East   October 2023 marks the 50th anniversar...

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Modern Arab Kingship

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Adam MestyanHardback, 352 pages9780691190976   Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East   In this groundbreaking book, Adam...

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Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt: An Eyewitness History

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Jonathan NorthPaperback, 288 pages9781398110311   In July 1798 Napoleon invaded Egypt, landing an army in the stifling heat of a North African summ...

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The Hadrami Diaspora: Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim

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Leif MangerPaperback, 216 pages9781782383970   The Hadramis of South Yemen and the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian O...

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Hadhramaut and its Diaspora

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Noel Brehony Hardback 9781784538682   Yemeni Politics, Identity and Migration

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Questioning Secularism

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Hussein Ali AgramaPaperback, 288 pages9780226010694   Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt   The central question of the Arab Sp...

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The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel

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Uri Bar-JosephPaperback, 400 pages9780062420138   As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close adviser to his successor, ...

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Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War

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Leila Tarazi FawazHardback, 416 pages9780674735491   A century after the Great War, the experiences of civilians and soldiers in the Middle East du...

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Lebanon: A History, 600 - 2011

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William Harris Paperback, 400 pages 9780190217839   In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities ...

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Yarmuk AD 636: The Muslim Conquest of Syria

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David NicollePaperback, 96 pages9781855324145   In 636 AD, after protracted skirmishing and minor engagements the Arab and Byzantine armies faced e...

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Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography

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Giedre SabaseviciutePaperback, 300 pages9780815637288   No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayy...

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A Physician on the Nile

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Abd al-Latif al-BaghdadiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 288 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479820078 A Description of Egypt and Journal ...

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Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad PB

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Ibn al-Sa'iPaperback, 176 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479866793   Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court   Consorts of th...

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The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt

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ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-NābulusīLuke Yarbrough (translation)Paperback, 224 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479824786   Patronage, power, and competitio...

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The Excellence of the Arabs

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Ibn QutaybahSarah Bowen Savant, Peter Webb (translation)Paperback, 224 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479899265   A spirited defense of Arab identity...

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Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

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Philip Mansel Paperback, 288 pages 9781784538477   A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualt...

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The Fall of Reza Shah

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Shaul BakhashPaperback, 184 pages9780755638093   Reza Shah's authoritarian and modernising reign transformed Iran, but his rule and Iran's independ...

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Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia

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Rosie BsheerPaperback, 416 pages9781503612570   The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artefacts t...

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Patriot of Persia : Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup

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Christopher de BellaiguePaperback, 336 pages9780099540489   On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate c...

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Secularism in the Arab World

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Aziz al-AzmehDavid Bond (translation)Paperback, 592 pages9781474447478 Contexts, Ideas and Consequences   This book is a translation of Aziz al-Azm...

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Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East

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C. Brad FaughtHardback, 264 pages9780300256741   The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on ...

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Iran: A Modern History PB

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Abbas Amanat Paperback, 1008 pages 9780300248937   A masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009   This history of modern Iran is not ...

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Egypt: A Short History

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Robert L. TignorPaperback9780691153070

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Iran: A Very Short Introduction

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Ali Ansari Paperback 9780199669349

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The Book of Charlatans

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Jamal al-Din Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari Humphrey Davies (translation) Paperback, 320 pages English-only edition 9781479813247   Uncovering the profess...

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These Bodies of Water: Notes on the British Empire, the Middle East and Where We Meet

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Sabrina MahfouzPaperback, 320 pages9781472282491   Are you not made of Suez silt? How do we know you won't shore our boats by making yourself bigge...

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The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism

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Zackery M. Heern Paperback 9781780744964   Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran

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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

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Elizabeth F. Thompson Paperback, 496 pages 9781611854640   The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance   When E...

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The Book Collectors of Daraya

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Delphine Minoui Paperback, 208 pages 9781529012330   A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through ...

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The Nature of Tyranny and the Devastating Results of Oppression

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Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi Amer Chaikhouni (translation) Hardback, 152 pages 9781787385481   A pathbreaking analysis of tyranny by one of the 19th ce...

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Rivals in the Gulf

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David H. Warren Hardback, 136 pages 9780367280628   Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the ...

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War-Torn: The Unmaking of Syria, 2011–2021

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Leïla Vignal Hardback, 328 pages 9781787384767   To see Syria’s future in the Middle East, we must analyse its destruction: not just the physical r...

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Faisal I of Iraq

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Ali A. Allawi Hardback, 672 pages 9780300127324   The first major biography of the founder of modern Iraq, a charismatic champion of Arab independe...

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Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East PB

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Roger Hardy Paperback, 288 pages 9781849049542    Hardy examines the unfortunate legacies of intervention that continue to fester almost fifty year...

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Ottoman Endgame

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Sean McMeekin Paperback, 576 pages 9780718199715   War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East 1908-1923

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