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Middle Eastern Studies Books
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Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,685 ratings — published 1978
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,736 ratings — published 1991
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,252 ratings — published 2006
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,139 ratings — published 1989
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,633 ratings — published 1926
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
by (shelved 4 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,807 ratings — published 2005
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,505 ratings — published 1990
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,406 ratings — published 1989
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,124 ratings — published 1997
On Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,920 ratings — published 2015
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.66 — 1,474 ratings — published 2018
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 870 ratings — published 1986
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,389 ratings — published 2013
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,380 ratings — published 2003
Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies' Table Our Journey Through the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,379 ratings — published 2010
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,865 ratings — published 2007
The Question of Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,546 ratings — published 1979
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,244 ratings — published 2006
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,527 ratings — published 2006
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,299 ratings — published 1968
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,529 ratings — published 1995
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,635 ratings — published 2001
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 243,093 ratings — published 2003
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 46,435 ratings — published 2024
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,764 ratings — published 2025
Classical Poems By Arab Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.59 — 193 ratings — published 1999
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 83,088 ratings — published 2025
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.77 — 6,827 ratings — published 2025
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,786 ratings — published 2024
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,083 ratings — published 2011
Ten Myths About Israel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,465 ratings — published 2017
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,489 ratings — published 2000
A History of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,848 ratings — published 1993
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,202 ratings — published 2020
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,338 ratings — published 2021
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,119 ratings — published 2022
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,785 ratings — published 2020
The Perfumed Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.38 — 1,059 ratings — published 1499
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,525 ratings — published 2013
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 18)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 181 ratings — published 1988
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 40,112 ratings — published 2020
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,674 ratings — published 2021
عمان الإنسان والسلطة: قراءة ممهدة لفهم المشهد السياسي العماني المعاصر (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 61 ratings — published 2013
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,154 ratings — published 2015
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,472 ratings — published 2012
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 17,515 ratings — published 2013
Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.29 — 21,608 ratings — published 2005
Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 142 ratings — published 2002
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Norton Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,010 ratings — published 2001
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as middle-eastern-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,469 ratings — published 2014
“Syria has long been on the ‘axis of evil’ list and a pretext to intervene militarily in that country, without causing public outrage like that caused in Iraq and Afghanistan, had to be manufactured. If a reason for military action in Syria didn’t exist, it had to be invented.”
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“One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).”
― Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy
― Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy