Hilary Mantel

Pain In The Desert

The Long Lost Journey

By Jennifer Potter

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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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July 2018 Issue

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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June 1997 Issue

Robert Fisk

Sunny Side of Saddam

A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite

By Said K Aburish

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July 1994 Issue

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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March 2017 Issue

David Pryce-Jones

Shock and Awe

The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East

By Guy Laron

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December 2016 Issue

James Harkin

The Price of Freedom

Merchants of Men: How Kidnapping, Randsom and Trafficking Funds Terrorism and ISIS

By Loretta Napoleoni

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December 2016 Issue

Norman Stone

A Line in the Sand

The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement

By Christopher Simon Sykes

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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

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July 2016 Issue

Kate Adie

Gaddafi’s Long Shadow

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

By Hisham Matar

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April 2016 Issue

Anthony Sattin

The End of the Silk Road

Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

By Philip Mansel

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November 2015 Issue

Malise Ruthven

Diminishing Powers

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

By Efraim Karsh

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July 2015 Issue

Elif Shafak

Tear off the Veil

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

By Mona Eltahawy

May 2015 Issue

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

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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

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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

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