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

Palestine in 2048: Staring into a black mirror

The best YA books: 10 Middle East authors worth reading

Arab poet Mourid Barghouti: Watching the leaves fall

The comic artist who fled Syria and found himself

Egypt's Jews: One writer's homage to a lost history

The Boy at the Back of the Class: Hit children's writer on her story of kindness

Man Booker International Prize: Jokha Alharthi is first Arab winner

Oman's Jokha Alharthi wins prestigious Man Booker International prize

Laila Lalami: ‘Whoever tells the story controls the world’

Postcards from dystopia: The Jewish-American cartoonist hitting back at Zionism

The Parisian: An epic novel of love and loss in Palestine

Review: A trip into the dark heart of Syria