Books

'Beirut Fragments' captures the horror Israel keeps inflicting on Lebanon

Jean Said Makdisi's reissued memoir recounts bombardment, siege and civilian resistance in scenes painfully familiar from Gaza and Israel's renewed assault on Lebanon

Towards Palestinian Liberation: How resistance travels across borders

America's Middle East: How Washington brought ruin to the region

Every Moment Is a Life: A Gaza anthology curated by Susan Abulhawa is a tour de force

Counterrevolution in Egypt: How Sisi broke the dream of a new republic

The Foundations of Zionism: An epic work of Palestinian scholarship now available in English

Hebrew Orientalism: How Jewish scholarship on the Arab world helped colonise Palestine

Douglas Murray on Israel and Gaza: Spinning a bestseller from his own ‘bullshit’

Revolutionary Warfare: How France lost Algeria but developed a new kind of social war

Collapsing the shelves: The challenges of publishing Arab American children's books

Passage to the Plaza: Sahar Khalifeh gives voice to a generation of Palestinian women

Barra and Zaman: How 'The Mummy' reveals a nostalgia for Egypt's lost past

Revolution, migration and free will: Khaled Mattawa's poems explore the notion of liberty

Street signs to Sindbad: Uncovering the legacy of Arab graphic design

12 books you need to read about the Arab Spring

Barack Obama's memoir is a desperate attempt to seal a legacy. It fails

Azad Essa

Ghost in the machine: Netflix's Paranormal is strictly by the numbers

'Iranian women are pursuing their dreams': New book challenges western stereotypes

Five books on East Africa's centuries-old connection with the Middle East

Fear and loathing in Gaza: Tales of a life under siege

Voices of a lost homeland: The poetry of Western Sahara