Middle Eastern history

Samuel Helfont draws on extensive research with Ba'thist archives to investigate the roots of the religious insurgencies that erupted in Iraq following the American-led invasion in 2003.

Stories about gendered social relations permeate the Qur'an, and nearly three hundred verses involve specific women or girls.

Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight.

On 4 July 1187 the legendary Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter at the battle of Hattin - and went on to restore the Holy City of Jerusalem to Islamic rule.

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization.

A high-level insider's history of the efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from 2000 Camp David Talks to the present, that explains why successive attempts have all failed.

The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I.

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "e;end of history.

Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight.

On 4 July 1187 the legendary Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter at the battle of Hattin - and went on to restore the Holy City of Jerusalem to Islamic rule.

The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject.

The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots.

The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I.

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization.

A high-level insider's history of the efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from 2000 Camp David Talks to the present, that explains why successive attempts have all failed.

This memoir, written by a native son, recalls everyday life before, during, and after the birth of the State of Israel.

This memoir, written by a native son, recalls everyday life before, during, and after the birth of the State of Israel.

For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses.

For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses.

For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners.

For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners.

The word "e;jihad"e; is everywhere in the global media.

The word "e;jihad"e; is everywhere in the global media.

The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth.

Born of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by creating a powerful new force in the Middle East.

In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East.

None of Us Were Like This Before recounts the dark journey of a tank battalion as its focus switched from conventional military duties to guerilla warfare and prisoner detention.

Yitzhak Laor is one of Israel's most prominent dissidents and poets, a latter-day Spinoza who helps keep alive the critical tradition within Jewish culture.

Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today.

Since the 1970s, Washington has been secretly funding some of the worst terrorists in the Middle East.

At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times.

A Child in Palestine collects the work of one of the Arab world's greatest cartoonists, Naji al-Ali, known as 'the Palestinian Malcolm X'.

A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history.

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, there has been an overwhelming demand for information about Islam, and recent events - the war in Iraq, terrorist attacks both failed and successful, debates throughout Europe over Islamic dress, and many others - have raised new questions in the minds of policymakers and the general public.

"e;The definitive and gripping account of the sometimes exhilarating, often tortured twists and turns in the Middle East peace process, viewed from the front row by one of its major players.

Iran has rarely been out of the headlines.

La narración del día a día de los olvidados protagonistas de esta colosal tragedia.

In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting, "e;one of the most important writers"e; in the field (The New York Times), argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: force.