Having a hard time making sense of the war? The names, the places, the millenniums of relevant social and political history. NEWSWEEK's Fareed Zakaria, who just authored "The Future of Freedom," ...

Yet it falls to fiction to truly capture life in the Middle East over the last 100 years. Munif’s evocative novel, for example, first published in Lebanon in 1984, recounts the devastating encounter ...

Former French diplomat Jean-Pierre Filiu covers the region's unlikely stories, many rulers and missed opportunities in 'The Middle East: A Political History From 395 to the Present' ...

Middle East Eye staff and writers plough through a fair few books each year, from fiction to politics, poetry to history. Amid the bending shelves, a few themes can be discerned.

Cole is an authority on modern Islamic movements. He is professor of modern Middle East and South Asia history at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is Sacred Space and Holy War: The ...

In the wake of Friday night’s violent attacks in Paris, The Wall Street Journal asked several experts for book recommendations on the evolution of terrorism in the Middle East.

In 2017, Assaf A. Voll wrote what was then the most comprehensive history of the Palestinian people. It was quickly recognized as such, and the book rapidly rose up the charts to be an Amazon best ...

My Top 5 Books for Christians on Islam in the Middle East Martin Accad A Lebanese academic gives his recommendations for reading up on the world’s second largest religion.

Editor’s Note: Each month, Inside the Middle East takes you behind the headlines to see a different side of this diverse region. April 13, 1975 – one of the darkest dates in Lebanese history ...