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Middle East Lists by Experts All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

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  • Steven A. Cook The best books for understanding the Middle East Book cover of The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty Book cover of America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier Book cover of Origins: A Memoir Book cover of The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda Book cover of War in the Land of Egypt
  • Sean Yom The best books on democracy and dictatorship in the Middle East Book cover of How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance Book cover of After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa Book cover of The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea Book cover of Quest for Democracy: Liberalism in the Modern Arab World Book cover of Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy
  • Teresa Fava Thomas The best books for understanding Americans living and working in the Middle East Book cover of Come with Me from Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey Book cover of Making Diplomacy Work: Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World Book cover of Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village Book cover of Den of Lions: Memoirs of Seven Years Book cover of Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service
  • Zahera Harb The best books to understand the Middle East through the lens of a Lebanese journalist and academic Book cover of Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries Book cover of 100 Myths About the Middle East Book cover of What It Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood Book cover of Orientalism Book cover of War Stories
  • Wayne H. Bowen The best books to understand the history of the Middle East Book cover of The Concise History of the Crusades Book cover of When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty Book cover of A History of the Arab Peoples Book cover of The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 Book cover of Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian
  • Kenneth M. Pollack The best books on Middle East military history Book cover of Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974 Book cover of On the Banks of the Suez: Israeli General's Personal Account of the Yom Kippur War Book cover of The Iran-Iraq War Book cover of The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran Book cover of The U.S. Army in the Iraq War Volume 1: Invasion Insurgency Civil War 2003 – 2006
  • Andrea B. Rugh The best books on Middle Eastern culture written by outsiders Book cover of At the Drop of a Veil Book cover of Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village Book cover of Letters from Egypt Book cover of The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Woman's Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth Book cover of In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
  • Yaniv Voller The best books on conflict and security in the Middle East and Africa Book cover of Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias Book cover of State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein Book cover of Houses Built on Sand: Violence, Sectarianism and Revolution in the Middle East Book cover of Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan Book cover of Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Rebellion and its Discontents
  • Edy Massih The best cookbooks spotlighting diverse Middle Eastern cultures and cuisines Book cover of Arabiyya: Recipes from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora Book cover of Bahari: Recipes From an Omani Kitchen and Beyond Book cover of Maydan: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond Book cover of Sofreh: A Contemporary Approach to Classic Persian Cuisine Book cover of The Lebanese Cookbook
  • Vassily Klimentov The best books about the modern Middle East and Afghanistan Book cover of Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Book cover of The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century Book cover of The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History Book cover of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan Book cover of Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq
  • Michelle Tusan The best books about World War I and the Middle East Book cover of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East Book cover of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Book cover of The Charity of War: Famine, Humanitarian Aid, and World War I in the Middle East Book cover of Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War Book cover of When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire
  • Hans-Lukas Kieser The best books about the roots of anti-democracy in Turkey and the Middle East Book cover of They All Made Peace - What Is Peace? The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the New Imperial Order Book cover of Curzon: The Last Phase, 1919-1925: A Study in Post-War Diplomacy Book cover of The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire Book cover of In the Land of Blood and Tears: Experiences in Mesopotamia During the World War (1914-1918) Book cover of Butterfly of the Night
  • Khalil F. Osman The best books about sectarianism in the Middle East Book cover of The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate Book cover of Understanding 'Sectarianism': Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Modern Arab World Book cover of Sectarian Politics in the Persian Gulf Book cover of The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace Book cover of The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon
  • Georgette F. Bennett Ph.D. The best books about the shifting dynamics in the Middle East from a back channel witness Book cover of Reclamation: A Cultural Policy for Arab-Israeli Partnership Book cover of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace Book cover of Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life Book cover of Frontline Syria: From Revolution to Proxy War Book cover of Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
  • Zachary Wingerd The best books about Christians in the Middle East Book cover of From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East Book cover of Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East Book cover of The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace Book cover of Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World Book cover of The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues on His Way
  • Louise Burfitt-Dons The best books about spies in the Middle East Book cover of Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East Book cover of Beirut Spy Book cover of A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Book cover of The Doomed Oasis Book cover of The Fist of God
  • Lawrence A. Peskin The best books to experience the Mediterranean like a 19th-century American Book cover of The Innocents Abroad Book cover of White Slaves, African Masters Book cover of The Barbary Wars Book cover of American Apostles Book cover of Orientalism
  • Nell Gabiam The best books on refugees in or from the Middle East Book cover of Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine Book cover of The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis Book cover of Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time Book cover of Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa Book cover of Syrian Women Refugees: Personal Accounts of Transition
  • David Stansfield The best books to read to understand the Middle East Book cover of Seven Pillars of Wisdom Book cover of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Book cover of Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom Book cover of Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History Book cover of Orientalism
  • Geoffrey P. Nash The best books for understanding Imperialism in the Middle East Book cover of The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities Book cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 Book cover of From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia Book cover of The Translator Book cover of The Arabian Desert in English Travel Writing Since 1950: A Barren Legacy?
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