The tragic history of how Israelis robbed Palestinians of their private property in mass lootings during their brutal exile of Palestinians in 1948 During the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and...

The Ottoman Empire long used flexible administrative arrangements to govern its vast domains. Starting in the 1830s, however, European intervention in Ottoman affairs resulted in the emergence of a...

A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present day Saudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, a major player on the international stage...

Since October 2023, Israel has carried out one of the most brutal military onslaughts in modern history on the Gaza Strip, in response to the Hamas-led attacks of October 7. But Gaza had long been in...

The spectacular rise and dramatic fall of super-assassin Carlos the Jackal—one of history’s most infamous terrorist masterminds—told with new revelations from the Jackal himself, by the Pulitzer...

A haunting, intimate account of the women and men who built a feminist revolution in the middle of the Arab Spring During the final months of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, a group of activists came...

An acclaimed Syrian journalist crafts a vital portrait of October 7, 2023, and its aftermath through the harrowing yet life-affirming accounts of 26 Palestinians. Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met...

"In this intimate portrait of Edward Said, Dominique Eddé, a close friend of the subject, offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre, from his earliest writings on Joseph Conrad to his...

With ramifications on geopolitics today, a vivid chronicle of the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the sacred places of Palestine and the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth...

"The epic, five millennia history of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that was the birthplace of civilization and remains today the essential crossroads between East and West. At...

"Two pervasive fears-of external aggression and internal dissolution-have dominated political discourse and state action in Iran for many decades, and arguably for centuries. This book closely...

It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the...

The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil...

Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South...

A Clandestine History of Mosul Under the Islamic State When ISIS overran Mosul in June 2014, a young historian named Omar Mohammed expected to spend his life in archives, not hiding from a death...

A masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 "The defiant spirit of [Iran] is brought to life in this monumental history of the past 500 years."--Richard Spencer, The Times (London) ...

"Methodically debunking the claims of its apologists, Norman Finkelstein has for decades laid bare the cynical politics behind Israel's high-tech killing sprees in Gaza. Since October 7, 2023, he has...

Both controversial and beloved, Edward Said was the pioneer of postcolonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine, and an erudite literary critic whose books continue to impact...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER • From the author of the...