My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tra...
Ari ShavitAn authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today Not since Thomas L. Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has...
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rajiv ChandrasekaranThe Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distra...
No True Glory: Fallujah and the Strug...
Bing WestLooks at the events, personalities, and political maneuvering of the struggle to establish peace in Fallujah, following strategy discussions between military officers, dangerous night patrols with the U.S. Marines, and peace negotiati...
Describes how a simple act of faith and the relationship between two families--one Israeli, one Palestinian--represents a personal microcosm of decades of Israeli-Palestinian history and symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle Eas...
Three Empires on the Nile: The Victor...
Dominic GreenA secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray h...
Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle...
Juan ColeIn this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient...
Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside St...
Gerald PosnerThis investigative report on the House of Saud, and its connections to America's business and political communities, uncovers a wealth of information and asks some profoundly disturbing questions about what was long considered America...
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Impe...
Scott AndersonA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2013A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the YearAn NPR Great Read of 2013A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential per...
Inside Iran: The Real History and Pol...
Medea BenjaminU.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a p...
The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the wor...
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, M...
Robert Lacey"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an epic tale." -Tom Brokaw Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also p...
90 Minutes at Entebbe: The Full Insid...
William StevensonThe incredible story of an Israeli mission that rescued 103 hostages from a hijacked jetliner.On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139 was hijacked by terrorists and flown to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. In the following agonizing days, ...
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup ...
Stephen KinzerIn this investigative report, a journalist exposes the role played by the United States, through the CIA, in a coup that overthrew Iran's leader Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953. This coup put in place the Shah, whose hated dictatorship was...
When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran, H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters into their own hands.
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope...
Rania Abouzeid"Rania Abouzeid has produced a work of stunning reportage from the very heart of the conflict, daring to go to the most dangerous places in order to get the story." ―Dexter Filkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The For...
A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind...
Michael AxworthyIran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran's religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi'a Muslim clerics in the ...
Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and t...
John B. JudisA probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time—the relationship between the United States and IsraelThere has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs—a violent, costly struggle t...
As the Western-Iranian impasse continues to dominate international affairs, politicians and the media confidently proclaim Iran the greatest threat to the Western World. But this villainous mask obscures a far more complex identity fo...
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, M...
Robert LaceySaudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox. It is a modern state driven by contemporary technology and possessed of vast oil deposits, yet its powerful religious establishment would have its customs and practices rolled back a thous...
In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and te...
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Pr...
David K. ShiplerIn this monumental work, David Shipler, award-winning correspondent for The New York Times, examines the forces that contribute to the mutual aversion and hatred in Israel.
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Impe...
Scott Anderson[Read by Malcolm Hillgartner] *Includes a bonus PDF with photos A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in twentieth century history -- the Arab Revolt and the secret game to control the ...
A Concise History of the Middle East ...
Arthur GoldschmidtThe ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East. As an introduction to the history of this turbulent region from the beginnin...
In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield, drawing on his experience as a journalist and a historian, explores two centuries of history in the Middle East. He forms a picture of the historical, political, and social history ...
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in ...
Steve CollTwo-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden family's rise to power and privilege, revealing new information to show how American influences changed th...
For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Wa...
Under Fire: The Untold Story of the A...
Fred BurtonThe explosive inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, LibyaOn the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by ...
A Brief History of the Middle East
Christopher CatherwoodFor over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology, and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred years for the West to catch up and overtake the Middle East....
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Co...
Michael ChabonA Paperback OriginalA groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and GazaIn Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon a...