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

Assassins, anarchists and anti-British activism: Dispatches from the Egyptian underground

Kyle J Anderson

Qatar World Cup 2022

Qatar World Cup: Football, neoliberalism and revolution in the Middle East

Abdullah Al-Arian

Nobel literature prize: Annie Ernaux and the art of 'collective autobiography'

Alexandra Pringle

Jeremy Bowen: A witness to the unmaking of the Middle East

Chris Doyle

Fascist Italy and the forgotten Libyan genocide

Younes Abouyoub

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow: Syrian author Zoulfa Katouh on survivor’s guilt and hope

Digital authoritarianism: The rise of electronic armies in the Middle East

Megan O'Toole

How a century of exile forged Palestinian national consciousness

Nadim Bawalsa

Five of the Arab world's most impressive libraries

How digital authoritarianism has permeated the Middle East

Marc Owen Jones

Egypt: New books challenge old narratives of the 1919 Revolution

Kyle J Anderson

Resistance and feminism: Five must-read books from Algeria