Ulfat Idilbi Sabriya portrays life in Damascus in the 1920's. Central to the story is Sabriya's journey to self-knowledge, intertwined with the rise and eclipse of national and feminist awareness...

Jennifer Klinec A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn’t be,...

Eric Blehm "The one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan.” —Former Congressman Charlie Wilson From...

Naguib Mahfouz This unusual epic from the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history. Set in...

Etgar Keret and Samir El-Youssef These two new voices from Israel and Palestine have no common political agenda (they don't talk about politics to each other), but share a stated...

Adaia abd Abraham Shumsky The touching story of an unusual friendship between a Jordanian king and a Jewish carpenter hired to do work on the palace is set against the...

Mourid Barghouti Winner of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this fierce and moving work is an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament.Barred from his homeland after...

Kooshyar Karimi Born in a slum, Kooshyar Karimi transformed himself into an award-winning writer as well as a successful doctor, whose conscience won't let him turn away the unmarried women...

Rania Abouzeid Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some...

Author: Dunya Mikhail Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won’t convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and...

Author: Albert Hourani Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises, the history of the Arab world has been little known and poorly understood...

Edited by Robert O Freedman Essays about the Mideast discuss the role of external powers, regional political dynamics, and national perspectives on problems of the region. January 1, 1991 by...