February 2024 Issue Charlie Gammell The Prophet & the Pretenders The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East By Barnaby Rogerson LR
March 2015 Issue Tom Holland Seizing the Fertile Crescent In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire By Robert G Hoyland LR
December 2004 Issue Hazhir Teimourian Mummies In The Closet The Court of the Caliphs: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty By Hugh Kennedy LR
September 2008 Issue Jason Burke A Reliable Witness The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror By Dexter Filkins LR
September 2008 Issue Anton La Guardia 1979 and All That A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East By Lawrence Freedman LR
May 2013 Issue Elif Shafak One Thousand and One Nights Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World By Shereen El Feki LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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