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Essay Of Lutis and Looters: History as the Sister of Fiction Earlier this week, Parnaz Foroutan wrote about her childhood determination to learn English after seeing a girl who looked just like her on the cover of Anne… Parnaz Foroutan August 19, 2015
Nonfiction Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home Claudette E. Sutton
Nonfiction The Bus on Jaffa Road: A Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for Justice Mike Kelly
Nonfiction Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
Nonfiction The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War Avi Raz
Nonfiction Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Scott Anderson
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Matti Friedman Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterOver the next several weeks, we’re giving you the opportunity to get to know this year’s Sami Rohr Prize finalists and hopefully, in… Naomi Firestone-Teeter October 14, 2013
Nonfiction A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914 – 1948 James Barr
Nonfiction State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State Jonathan Schanzer
Nonfiction The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989 – 2011 Daniel C. Kurtzer, Scott B. Lasensky, & Shibley Z. Telhami
Nonfiction Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytical View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Avner Falk
