Barnaby Crowcroft

Sultans of Solitude

Muscat and Oman: The End of an Era

By Ian Skeet

August 2024 Issue

Diana Darke

Syria Ablaze

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

By Eugene Rogan

LR

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 2022 Issue

Piers Brendon

Kiss & Shell

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

By Nigel Ashton

LR

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

LR

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

July 2018 Issue

Robert Irwin

There Be Despots

Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia

By Jürgen Osterhammel (Translated by Robert Savage)

LR

March 2017 Issue

David Pryce-Jones

Shock and Awe

The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East

By Guy Laron

LR

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

LR

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

LR

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

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

June 2004 Issue

Hazhir Teirmourian

A Historian Read by Both Sides

From Babel To Dragomans: Interpreting The Middle East

By Bernard Lewis

LR

August 2004 Issue

Francis King

Cosmopolis

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag

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

March 2011 Issue

Adam LeBor

Aftershocks of the Risorgimento

Jerusalem: The Biography

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

LR

August 2010 Issue

Adam LeBor

The Other Naqba

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

By Martin Gilbert

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 2008 Issue

David Cesarani

The Root of Conflict

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

By Benny Morris

LR

July 2014 Issue

Adam LeBor

1967 & All That

Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories

By Ahron Bregman

LR

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