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

Full-bore cooking covers the bulk of "The New Book of Middle Eastern Food," across 16 chapters. Grape leaves, served warm, stuffed with ground meat and rice and seasoned with tomato and cinnamon, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

My first inclination upon receiving Jared Kushner’s book, Breaking History: A White House Memoir, was to review it like most everyone else, heavy on the derision and snark.Yet after reading it ...

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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Christopher Low, assistant professor of history, directs the Middle East Center at the University of Utah.He is the author of “Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj ...