November 2020 Issue David Blow Best of Enemies America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present By John Ghazvinian LR
October 2020 Issue Barnaby Crowcroft It’s a Tough Neighbourhood The Origins of the Arab–Iranian Conflict: Nationalism & Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars By Chelsi Mueller Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East By Kim Ghattas LR
May 2018 Issue Richard Overy Fighting Tomorrow’s Battles Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq By Ashley Jackson LR
April 2016 Issue C P W Gammell Slaughter over the Shatt al-Arab The Iran–Iraq War By Pierre Razoux (Translated by Nicholas Elliott)
December 2015 Issue Leslie Mitchell Persian Persuasion The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London By Nile Green LR
February 2009 Issue Hazhir Teimourian The Caliphate Strikes Back Khomeini’s Ghost: Iran since 1979 By Con Coughlin LR
March 2013 Issue David Pryce-Jones 1979 & All That Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic By Michael Axworthy LR
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