Middle East

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Asher Orkaby Paperback, 256 pages 9780190932275   A comprehensive introduction to Yemen's current crises, major players, and potential solutions to...

Guy Laron Hardback 9780300222708   A big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its globa...

Ahmed Gatnash Iyad El-Baghdadi Paperback, 256 pages 9781787383043   Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance   Why is the Middle East a crisis factory, a...

Madawi Al-Rasheed Hardback, 416 pages 9781787383791   Reform and ruthless repression go hand in hand in MBS’s Saudi Arabia.   In 2018, journalist J...

Bachar Bakour Paperback, 328 pages 9789670526812   Although Syria, since the 1960s, has been dominated by a secular-nationalist regime, the 2011 up...

Nasir al-Huzaimi Paperback, 208 pages 9780755600113   On 20th November 1979, the Salafi Group, led by a charismatic figure named Juhaiman al-Utaibi...

Ömer Taspinar Hardback 9781788310109   Why Islam is Not the Problem   The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstan...

Fanar Haddad Hardback 9781787382060   Sunni–Shi’a Relations in the Modern Arab World   Much has been published on sectarianism in the Middle East b...

Behrooz Sabet, Cyrus Rohani (eds.) Paperback 9780863563881     The Challenge of Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa   Recent developments...

James Verini Hardback 9781786077486   The battle is for a city. The war is for history. In autumn 2016, Iraqi forces began operations to recapture ...

Fawaz A. Gerges Paperback 9780691196466   Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East   How the conflict between political Islamists an...

Peter Mansfield Paperback 9780141988467   Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This no...

Ryszard Kapuscinski Paperback 9780141188041   Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the natu...

John McHugo Paperback 9780863561603   Syria’s descent into chaos since 2011 has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, while more than nine millio...

Tim Mackintosh-Smith Paperback 9780300251630   This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloos...

Caroline Williams Paperback 9789774168550   Contents:   1. Historical Summary and Chronology   2. Architectural and Ornamental Summary   3. The Isl...

Andrew Hammond Paperback 9780745332697  

Alexei Vassiliev Paperback 9780863561290   In 1964 Faisal bin Abdul Aziz became king of a country holding a quarter of the world’s oil reserves, al...

Barbara Drieskens Hardback 9780863566950   The djinn is an invisible spirit with a will of its own that may hide in the bathroom, lurk in dark alle...

John McHugo Paperback 9780863567421   The key to understanding the Arab world today is unlocking its past.   In this authoritative account, John Mc...

Madawi Al-Rasheed (ed.) Hardback 9781849049658   King Salman of Saudi Arabia began his rule in 2015 confronted with a series of unprecedented chall...

Andrew Arsan Paperback, 520 pages 9781787383654   Lebanon seems a country in the grip of permanent crisis. In recent years it has suffered blow aft...

Dilip Hiro Paperback 9781787384088   For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoi...

H.A. Hellyer Hardback 9781849046848   A Revolution Undone blends analysis and narrative, charting Egypt’s journey from Tahrir to Sisi from the pers...

Neguin Yavari Hardback 9781849048200   This work is a critical study of the life and afterlife of Nizam al-Mulk (1018-92), celebrated Persian vizie...

John Calvert Paperback 9781849049498   Revised and Updated   The influential Egyptian ideologue Sayyid Qutb (1906-66) is credited with establishing...