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BRITAIN'S 2 WARS WITH IRAQ: 1941, 1991 By Raghid El-Solh published by Ithaca Press ISBN 0 86372 176 1 price 35.00 £ hardback In the first half of the year [...]

BEING MODERN IN IRAN By Fariba Adelkhah Published by C. Hurst & Go Ltd ISBN 1-85065-518-9 Price 14.95 £ paperback ISBN 1-85065-516-2 Price 35.00 £ hardback In May 1997 Iran's [...]

THE ARAB WRITER IN ENGLISH Arab themes in a Metropolitan language 1908-1958 By Geoffrey Nash Published by Sussex Academic Press ISBN 1 898723 84 2 price 39.95 £ hardback This [...]

A BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE: DISPATCHES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST By Amos Elon Published by Columbia University Press ISBN 0 231 10743 9 price 12.95 £ paperback In this book Amos Elon [...]

ADRIADNE'S THREAD: THROUGH THE LABYRINTH TO PALESTINE AND ISRAEL By Eleanor Aitken published by Cornelian Press ISBN 0 9535525 0 0 price 14.95 £ hardback Eleanor Aitken's story centres on [...]

THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD By Francis Robinson Published by Cambridge University Press ISBN 0 521 66993 6 price 16.95 £ hardback Islam is a global religion. [...]

MAKING IT IN THE MIDDLE EAST By Bryan Thompson Published by The Book Guild Ltd. ISBN 1 85776 435 8 price 12.95 £ hardback An amusing collection of vignettes based [...]

TURKEY REVISED EDITION By Cigdem Balim-Harding Published by ABC-CLIO Ltd ISBN 1-85109-295-1 price 37.00 £ hardback This annotated bibliography fully updates the original edition, published in 1982 and covers all [...]

NIGHT AND HORSES AND THE DESERT An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature By Robert Irwin published by Penguin Press ISBN 0 71 399153 4 Price: 25.00 £ hardback This book [...]

YES, (SAUDI) MINISTER A LIFE IN ADMINISTRATION By Ghazi A. Algosaibi published by LCAS ISBN 1 900404 17 6 price 25.00 £ hardback Born into a leading merchant family in [...]

PERSIA AND THE GULF RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT by John F Standish published by CURZON ISBN 0 7007 0341 1 Price 40.00 £ hardback ISBN 0 7007 0237 7 Price 16.99 [...]

BLOOD AND OIL MEMOIRS OF A PERSIAN PRINCE By Manucher and Roxane Farmanfarmaian published by PRION ISBN1 85375 306 8 price 25.00 £ hardback Manucher Farmanfarmaian was born into one [...]

IBN SINA AND MYSTICISM REMARKS AND ADMONITIONS By Shams C Inati Published by Kegan Paul International ISBN 0 7103 0482 x Price 35.00 £ hardback Few figures have been of [...]

ALL IN THE FAMILY: ABSOLUTISM, REVOLUTION, AND DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN MONARCHIES By Michael Herb Published by SUNY ISBN 0-7914-4168-7 Price $25.95 One observer of monarchies in the developing [...]

THE FORGOTTEN MILLIONS The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands edited by Malka Hillel Shulewitz published by CASSELL ISBN 0 304 70078 9 price 49 99 £ hardback The Forgotten [...]

TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF COPTIC CHRISTIANITY By Otto FA Meinardus published by The American University in Cairo Press ISBN 977 424 511 3 price 16.00 £ hardback Today, the Coptic [...]

ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM: MYTHS AND REALITIES Edited by Ahmad S Moussalli Published by Ithaca Press ISBN 0 86372 232 6 price 35.00 £ hardback Islamic fundamentalism has obviously been on the [...]

THE BUILDING OF CONSENSUS IN EGYPT'S TRANSITION PROCESS By Noha El-Mikawy Published by The American University in Cairo Press ISBN 977 424 498 2 price 15.95 £ paperback In this [...]

OMAN AND THE SOUTH-EASTERN SHORE OF ARABIA ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS ON THE HISTORY OF THE ARAB WORLD Series Editor Raghid El-Solh Published by ITHACA press ISBN 0 86372 199 0 Price [...]

FIGHTING WORLD WAR THREE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST by Michael J. Cohen Published by Frank Cass ISBN 0 7146 4720 9 Price 37.50 £ hardback ISBN 0 7146 4269 x [...]

THE SAUDI FILE People, Power, Politics By Anders Jerichow published by CURZON ISBN 0 700 0997 5 Price 40.00 £ hardback Saudi Arabia remains a closed society with a unique [...]

BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE IN THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN 1914-1918 By Yigal Sheffy, published by Frank Cass ISBN 0 7146 4677 6 Price 45.00 £ hardback ISBN 0 7146 4368 8 Price [...]

MODERNITY AND THE MILLENIUM The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century by Juan R. I. Cole Published by Columbia University Press ISBN 0 231 11080 4 Price [...]

THE ABSENCE OF PEACE: UNDERSTANDING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT By Nicholas Guyatt. Published by Zed Books ISBN 1 85649 579 5 Hardback price: 37.95 £ ISBN 1 85649 580 9 Paperback [...]

TO BE A SAUDI By Hani A. Z. Yamani Published by Janus ISBN 1 85756 303 4 Price: 12.95 £ To Be a Saudi is a portrait of Saudi Arabia [...]

IN THE EYE OF THE STORM Women in Post-revolutionary Iran Edited by Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl Published by I.B. Tauris ISBN 1 85043 792 0 Price: 14.95 £ In [...]

ALLAH'S MOUNTAINS POLITICS AND WAR IN THE RUSSIAN CAUCASUS By Sebastian Smith, published by I.B. Tauris ISBN 1 86064 215 2 Price: 19.95 £ Hardback Part history, part travel writing, [...]

JERUSALEM: WHAT MAKES FOR PEACE! A Palestinian Christian Contribution to Peacemaking edited by Naim Ateek, Cedar Ductybis and Marla Schrader. Published by MELISENDE ISBN: 1 901764 00 1 Price: 12.50 [...]

PHILBY OF ARABIA by Elizabeth Monroe Foreword by Sir James Craig Published by Ithaca Press ISBN 0 86372 239 3 Paperback 14.95 £ A full-scale and fascinating biography, first published [...]

IN THE HOUSE OF SILENCE Edited By Fadia Faqir published by Garnet ISBN 1 85964 023 0 Price 8.95 £ To complement the novels in Garnet's award-winning Arab Women Writers [...]

A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE ISRAEL, TRANSFER AND THE PALESTINIANS 1949-1996 By Nur Masalha; Published by Faber and Faber Limited ISBN 0 571 19100 2 Price: 14.99 £ From the [...]

THE HISTORY OF SAUDI ARABIA By Alexei Vassiliev Published by Saqi Books ISBN 0 86356 935 8 Price 45.00 £ Among the numerous publications on the history of the Arabian [...]

THE TALIBAN WAR, RELIGION AND THE NEW ORDER IN AFGHANISTAN by Peter Marsden; published by Zed Books ISBN 1 85649 5221 Price 12.95 £ paperback ISBN 1 85649 5213 Price [...]

RETHINKING TRADITION IN MODERN ISLAMIC THOUGHT By Daniel Brown Published by Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0 521 57077 8 Price: 30.00 £ Questions about the authenticity and authority of sunna [...]

LORDS OF THE LEBANESE MARCHES VIOLENCE AND NARRATIVE IN AN ARAB SOCIETY By Michael Gilsenan Published by I.B. Tauris ISBN 1 85043 099 3 Price: 14.95 £ Lords of the [...]

REFORMING THE MUSLIM WORLD By Masudul Alam Choudhury Published by Kegan Paul International ISBN 0 7103 0575 3 Price: 55.00 £ Masudul Alam Choudhury's Reforming the Muslim World stands within [...]

CORE AND PERIPHERY A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO MIDDLE EASTERN WATER General Editor Asit K. Biswas Published by Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 5642511 Price 17.95 £ Water is the [...]

LEBANON'S QUEST THE ROAD TO STATEHOOD 1926-1939 By Meir Zamir Published by I.B. Tauris ISBN 1 86064 107 5 Price: 45 £ Lebanon's unique political system and its liberal, laissez-faire [...]

CIVIL SOCIETY IN YEMEN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ACTIVISM IN MODERN ARABIA By Sheila Carapico Published by Cambridge University Press ISBN 0 521 59098 1 Price: 35.00 £ Sheila Carapico's [...]

FAITH AND FREEDOM WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD Edited by Mahnaz Afkhami Published by IB Tauris ISBN 1 86064 008 7 Price: 12.95 £ Over half a billion [...]

THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD a translation of Al-Sira al Nabawiyya by Ibn Kathir Volume 1 Translated by Dr Trevor Le Gassick Published by Garnet Publishing Ltd ISBN 187 [...]

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PALESTINE Edited by A.B. ZAHLAN. Published by Keegan Paul International ISBN 0 7103 0557 5 Price 19.95 £ The Reconstruction of Palestine presents opportunities and challenges unparalleled [...]

STRUGGLE FOR THE HOLY LAND By William Hare Published by Madison Books ISBN 1 56833 040 5 Price 27.50 £ In this sweeping, historical saga of the Middle East, William [...]

TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF SAUDI ARABIA By Geoffrey King Published by I.B. Tauris ISBN 1 86064 339 6 Price: 45.00 £ Saudi Arabia encompasses a greater variety of architectural styles than [...]

BEING THERE By Daniel Bradburd Published by Smithsonian Institute Press ISBN 1 56098 753 7 Paperback price: 12.50 £ ISBN 1 56098 777 4 Hardback price: 25.25 £ Drawing on [...]

ANWAR SADAT: VISIONARY WHO DARED By Joseph Finklestone Published by Frank Cass ISBN 0 7146 3487 5 Hardback price: 29.50 £ ISBN 0 7146 4165 0 Paperback price: 15.00 £ [...]

TALES FROM OLD BAGHDAD Grandma and I By Khalid Kishtainy Published by Kegan Paul International ISBN 0 7103 0573 7 Price: 16.95 £ In the Orient, novelists and story tellers [...]

THE NAWAL EL SAADAWI READER A selection of the works of Nawal El Saadawi Published by Zed Books ISBN 1 85649 514 0 Price: 13.95 £ Writer, doctor and militant, [...]

THE AGONY OF ALGERIA By Martin Stone Published by C. Hurst & Co. Ltd. ISBN 1 85065 177 9 Price 14.95£ Since the Algerian military annulled an election in January [...]

STORY OF A CITY A CHILDHOOD IN AMMAN by Abd Al Rahman Munif, Published by Quartet Books Ltd. ISBN 0 7043 8023 4 Price: 11.00 £ 'A city does not [...]