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Sultans of Solitude

Muscat and Oman: The End of an Era

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Syria Ablaze

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

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Rory Mccarthy

Road Not Taken

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

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Fitzroy Morrissey

Sufism Goes West

Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah

By Nile Green

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Charlie Gammell

The Prophet & the Pretenders

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By Barnaby Rogerson

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Barnaby Crowcroft

Full of Gas

Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

By John McManus

March 2022 Issue

Piers Brendon

Kiss & Shell

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

By Nigel Ashton

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May 2021 Issue

Barnaby Crowcroft

Professor of Protest

Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said

By Timothy Brennan

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March 2021 Issue

Eric Ormsby

Wars of Words

The Rise of the Arabic Book

By Beatrice Gruendler

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Hilary Mantel

Pain In The Desert

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By Jennifer Potter

March 2019 Issue

Robert Irwin

Nursed on the Blood of Black Lambs

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

By Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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February 2019 Issue

David Abulafia

Classical Connections

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found – A History in Seven Cities

By Violet Moller

December 2018 Issue

Avi Shilon

Don’t Mess with the Mossad

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

By Ronen Bergman

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Robert Irwin

There Be Despots

Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia

By Jürgen Osterhammel (Translated by Robert Savage)

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May 2018 Issue

Robert Irwin

Reading Proust in the Empty Quarter

March 2018 Issue

Lawrence Rosen

Magus of the Maghreb

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

By Robert Irwin

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Robert Fisk

Sunny Side of Saddam

A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite

By Said K Aburish

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Christopher Hitchens

A Nation Insulted

The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination 1969-1993

By Edward W Said

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David Pryce-Jones

Shock and Awe

The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East

By Guy Laron

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James Harkin

The Price of Freedom

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By Loretta Napoleoni

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