Robert Steele

Checkmate Tehran

King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East

By Scott Anderson

Norma Clarke

From Baghdad to Brent

Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture

By Samantha Ellis

Phil Baker

One Thousand & One Frights

Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult

By Raphael Cormack

Bijan Omrani

Number-Cruncher of Nineveh

The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History

By Selena Wisnom

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

By Moudhy Al-Rashid

David Abulafia

Worth Its Salt

The Dead Sea: A 10,000-Year History

By Nir Arielli

Diana Darke

Syria Ablaze

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World

By Eugene Rogan

Rory Mccarthy

Road Not Taken

What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East

By Fawaz A Gerges

C P W Gammell

The Prophet & the Pretenders

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

By Barnaby Rogerson

Piers Brendon

Kiss & Shell

False Prophets: British Leaders’ Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria

By Nigel Ashton

Barnaby Crowcroft

Professor of Protest

Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said

By Timothy Brennan

Eric Ormsby

Wars of Words

The Rise of the Arabic Book

By Beatrice Gruendler

Robert Irwin

Nursed on the Blood of Black Lambs

Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

By Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Avi Shilon

Don’t Mess with the Mossad

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

By Ronen Bergman

Robert Irwin

There Be Despots

Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia

By Jürgen Osterhammel (Translated by Robert Savage)