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

How Turkish TV, Bollywood and K-pop spell the end for the American century

'Between Beirut and the Moon': The story of an unfulfilled odyssey

'Shy Radicals': The book that demands an inclusive world for introverts

Plague and poetry: How Middle East authors have written about disease

Samantha Power: Idealism in service of empire

Azad Essa

Egyptian cult classics: 11 books that are worth reading

The Olive Trees' Jazz: Algiers poet speaks in music of the senses

Books and bombs: How I healed myself through fiction

Jared Kushner, here are 25 more books you should read about Palestine, Israel relations

The best Middle East books of the year - picked by Middle East Eye writers

‘I sort of broke English’: Meet the Lebanese poet crossing boundaries

When We Were Arabs: 'I am not an Oriental'