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

Five must read books about the Nakba

How Lebanese writer Rachid el-Daif has turned to fairytales

Said Khatibi: To avoid war, destroy the myth of purity

Your Wish is My Command: Deena Mohamed's fantasy tale of desperate desire

Palestine: UN rapporteurs bear witness to injustice of Israeli occupation

Hilary Wise

Shams al-Maarif: Why is this mystic book feared in the Middle East?

In pictures: Logos Hope, world renowned floating book fair, docks in Egypt

Istanbul's Rami library: From army barracks to place of learning

Iradj Bagherzade: A life in books, pushing new boundaries

How to be a bad Muslim: Politics, poetry and finding love beyond the labels

Dismay as London's famed Al Saqi bookshop closes its doors

YA Arab American novels: Bringing Palestine into our fictional world

Nada Elia