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
Charles Kurzman: The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran*
- a synthesis of social history and sociology
Mario Liverani: Israel's History and the History of Israel**
- ancient histories, normal and invented
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
Mary Lee Settle: Turkish Reflections
A Biography of a Place
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

I realise the term "Middle East" is now deprecated by geographers, but "West Asia" is not very popular.