Middle East + Middle Eastern history

Book Reviews

• Joel Beinin, Joe Stork: Political Islam**
  Essays from Middle East Report
• Richard A. Billows: Antigonos the One-Eyed
  And the Creation of the Hellenistic State
• John Curtis, Nigel Tallis: Forgotten Empire
  The World of Ancient Persia
• Christopher De Bellaigue: In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs
  A Memoir of Iran
• Noah Feldman: After Jihad
  America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
• Garth Fowden: Empire to Commonwealth
  Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
• Francesco Gabrieli: Arab Historians of the Crusades*
  - excerpts from nineteen Islamic writers
• George F. Hourani: Arab Seafaring
  In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
• Robert Irwin: Islamic Art*
  Art, Architecture and the Literary World
• Francis Joannès: The Age of Empires*
  Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BC
• Cemal Kafadar: Between Two Worlds**
  The Construction of the Ottoman State
• J.G. Macqueen: The Hittites
  And their contemporaries in Asia Minor
• Peter Marsden: The Taliban
  War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
• Nur Masalha: Catastrophe Remembered
  Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees
• Tim Niblock: Saudi Arabia
  Power, Legitimacy and Survival
• Hans J. Nissen: The Early History of the Ancient Near East
  9000 - 2000 B.C.
• Orhan Pamuk: My Name is Red*
  - murder and art in 16th century Istanbul
• Ilan Pappe: A History of Modern Palestine*
  One Land, Two Peoples
• Donald B. Redford: Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times
  - from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
• Charles Tripp: A History of Iraq
  - politics from the Ottomans to Saddam Hussein
• Mai Yamani: Changed Identities
  The Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia

See also: Egypt | Islam | Israel + Judaism

I realise the term "Middle East" is now deprecated by geographers.