If you're looking to better understand the headlines and the centuries of context behind them these books are an excellent ...

Editor’s note: For our centennial issue, our reviewers each selected a set of books essential to understanding the past century and another set essential for imagining the century ahead. The last ...

Former French diplomat Jean-Pierre Filiu covers the region's unlikely stories, many rulers and missed opportunities in 'The Middle East: A Political History From 395 to the Present' ...

As tensions escalate in the region, understanding the roots and consequences of the conflict has never been more urgent. This ...

Here’s a closer look at Agatha Christie’s Middle Eastern novels and how her love for the region shaped these gripping stories. 1. Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) – Set in Iraq ...

McCarron’s new book, The Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilization, is the sobering yet often funny and poignant account of their journey. The book is a celebration of Iraq’s ...

But, as Barak argues, people experience heat not as remotely sensed data points but in rivulets of sweat. In this provocative book, both witty and profoundly serious, he provides a human-scale history ...

A scathing critique of U.S. Middle East policy, from Carter to Biden Steven Simon’s ‘Grand Delusion’ is often illuminating, but like the policymakers it skewers, it has biases and blind ...

The book contains twelve articles on various elements of soccer in the Middle East and Northern Africa, written by different academics in different countries. From a hundred years ago up to the ...

Iraq’s rich and diverse art scene, as well as Tehran’s pivotal Saqqakhaneh school of the 1950s, are also explored in some depth in the book. • Saeb Eigner, Artists of the Middle East: 1900 ...