Books

Towards Palestinian Liberation: How resistance travels across borders

A new collection of essays places the struggle against Israel in a global context

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

In the shadow of the live feed: Avi Shlaim’s ‘Genocide in Gaza’

How exiled Ottomans and an Indian billionaire plotted to recreate the caliphate

Biff, Chip and Kipper book accused online of ‘racist’ depiction of the Middle East

Jalal Al-e Ahmad: The last Muslim intellectual

Hamid Dabashi

Black Shield Maiden: Willow Smith's new book lambasted over representation of Muslims

Orientalism, exoticism, deception: The story of the Arabian Nights

Turkish book publishers pushed to the brink by lira crisis

Five of the best Arab comic and graphic novel releases of 2021

Anybody who has visited Palestine could not fail to support Sally Rooney

Alexandra Pringle

2021's best books: MEE staff and writers' favourite reads of the year

The booksellers of Cairo: An urban trail of eight of the city's antiquarian bookstores

How Diwan bookstores created an inclusive and enduring model of bookselling in Egypt

As Abdulrazak Gurnah's publisher, I thought Nobel winner's moment might have gone

Alexandra Pringle

Duse Mohamed Ali: Fleet Street's first Black Muslim editor, with an international vision