October 2020 Issue Barnaby Crowcroft It’s a Tough Neighbourhood The Origins of the Arab–Iranian Conflict: Nationalism & Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars By Chelsi Mueller Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East By Kim Ghattas LR
June 2018 Issue Kevin Jackson The Jeddah Gang Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt By Philip Walker LR
June 1997 Issue Robert Fisk Sunny Side of Saddam A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite By Said K Aburish LR
October 2009 Issue Michael Burleigh Sapphic Saudis Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia By Robert Lacey LR
December 2008 Issue Hazhir Teimourian Over A Barrel Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present By Mark Weston LR
December 2007 Issue Michael Burleigh Where It All Began The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising By Yaroslav Trofimov LR
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