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Middle East

July 2016 Issue

Richard Cockett

Where Will It End?

ISIS: A History

By Fawaz A Gerges

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

By Joby Warrick

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror

By David Kilcullen

July 2016 Issue

Kate Adie

Gaddafi’s Long Shadow

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

By Hisham Matar

November 2015 Issue

Malise Ruthven

Diminishing Powers

The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East

By Efraim Karsh

July 2015 Issue

Elif Shafak

Tear off the Veil

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

By Mona Eltahawy

Jason Burke

Al-Qaeda’s Prodigal Child

ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror

By Michael Weiss & Hassan Hassan

ISIS: The State of Terror

By Jessica Stern & J M Berger

July 2003 Issue

Charles Allen

It’s All Cuneiform to Me

Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon

By Lesley Adkins

December 2003 Issue

Gerald Butt

Lines In The Sand

Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East

By John Keay

Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped The Middle East

By Jeremy Bowen

Israel and Palestine: Why They Fight and Can They Stop?

By Barnard Wasserstein

March 2015 Issue

Norman Stone

What a Carve Up

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1920

By Eugene Rogan

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

April 2004 Issue

Christabel King

The Explorer’s Wife

The Stolen Woman: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa

By Pat Shipman

Hazhir Teimourian

Conquest In Double Time

The Iraq War

By John Keegan

In The Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat in Iraq

By Rick Atkinson

June 2004 Issue

Hazhir Teirmourian

A Historian Read by Both Sides

From Babel To Dragomans: Interpreting The Middle East

By Bernard Lewis

August 2004 Issue

Francis King

Cosmopolis

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag

November 2004 Issue

Hazhir Teimourian

Dangerous Dynasties

House of Bush, House of Saud

By Craig Unger

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

September 2011 Issue

Malise Ruthven

Lifting the Veil

A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

By Leila Ahmed

August 2010 Issue

Adam LeBor

The Other Naqba

In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands

By Martin Gilbert

Jonathan Randal

Burning Cedars

Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East

By David Hirst

September 2008 Issue

Jason Burke

A Reliable Witness

The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror

By Dexter Filkins

September 2008 Issue

Anton La Guardia

1979 and All That

A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East

By Lawrence Freedman