Book Reviews
- Abbas Amanat: Iran: A Modern History*
- from the Safavids to the Islamic Revolution
- Joel Beinin, Joe Stork: Political Islam**
Essays from Middle East Report
- Jonathan Berkey: The Formation of Islam
Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800
- 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
- Stephanie Dalley: Myths from Mesopotamia
Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
- 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
- Irving Finkel, Jonathan Taylor: Cuneiform
- writing and literacy in ancient Mesopotamia
- Garth Fowden: Before and After Muhammad
The First Millennium Refocused
- Garth Fowden: Empire to Commonwealth
Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
- Peter Frankopan: The First Crusade
The Call From the East
- 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
- Gwendolyn Leick: Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City*
- ten cities over five millennia
- 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
- Martin Woollacott: After Suez
Adrift in the American Century
- Mai Yamani: Changed Identities
The Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia
See also:
Arabic literature |
Egypt + North Africa |
Islam |
Persian literature
I realise the term "Middle East" is now deprecated, but
"Near East" is no better and alternatives such as "West Asia"
pose their own problems.