One of the events most crucial to the war in the Persian Gulf occurred nearly ten years before it began, when Israel destroyed Iraq's most advanced weapon, the nuclear reactor at Al-Tuweitha, acting...

"In early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was a twenty-one-year-old university graduate dreaming of a career as a journalist. But soon, her homeland would be unrecognizable--and she would be...

On the Semicivilized by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped--and blocked--sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire...

"Arresting … Stone’s Turkey breaks the popular mould and introduces its readers to a place beyond their presumptions" —The Sunday Times In Turkey: A Short History the celebrated historian Norman...

Morocco is notable for its stable and durable monarchy, its close ties with the West, its vibrant cultural life, and its centrality to regional politics. This book, by distinguished historian, Susan...

The Collaborator of Bethlehem is the riveting first novel in a new mystery series set in the heart of the Middle East. The murder of a leader of the Palestinian Martyrs Brigade leads to the arrest of...

An eye-opening look at the displacement of Sunni power and culture throughout the Middle East by an award-winning NPR reporter

A decisive break from the failed Oslo Accords and an innovative plan to create the foundations for peace and self-determination in Israel-Palestine.   For more than three decades, the illusion of a...

Discover the Classic Coming-of-Age Memoir that Captures the Palestinian Experience for Members of every Generation since the 1948 Nakba"Unusually honest, beautifully written." — New York Times Book...

The 1967 Arab-Israeli War rocketed the question of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of American newspapers. Black Power activists saw Palestinians as a kindred people of color, waging the...

The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has...

Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks...

Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public officials, but local citizens do not always...