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Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia

by Natalie Koch

A revelatory new history of the colonization of the American West, by way of camels, date palms, and Biosphere 2

1 post
Radius

by Yasmin El-Rifae

A haunting, intimate account of the women and men who built a feminist revolution in the middle of the Arab Spring

4 posts
Not by Omission

by Amnon Kapeliouk

A major new reading of the 1973 war in the Middle East
The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan

by Tariq Ali

The occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpest and most prescient.

5 posts

Behind Enemy Lies

by Patrick Cockburn
The war of truth and lies in the Middle East
6 posts
The Apocalypse and the End of History

by Suzanne Schneider

How the political violence of modern jihad echoes the crises of western liberalism

5 posts
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

by Deepa Kumar

A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edition

4 posts
How the EHRC Got It So Wrong

by Jewish Voice for Labour

Labour and the Antisemitism Question: what next?

Stone Men

by Andrew Ross

The story of Palestine’s stonemasons and the building of Israel

12 posts
Plowshares into Swords

by Arno Mayer

A critical history of Israel and the Arab–Israeli conflict

3 posts
The People Are Not an Image

by Peter Snowdon

A major intervention in media studies theorises the politics and aesthetics of internet video

2 posts
An Army Like No Other

by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

A history of the IDF that argues that Israel is a nation formed by its army.

2 posts

The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

The bestselling study of Jewish history

41 posts
The Management of Savagery

by Max Blumenthal

The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism

1 post
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

28 posts
A Woman Called Moses

by Jean-Christophe Attias

What if there was another Moses, very different from the one we know?

Antisemitism and the Labour Party

Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner

What is the truth behind the claims of antisemitism against Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party?

4 posts
Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs

by Kfir Cohen Lustig

A sweeping new theory of world literature through a study of Palestinian and Israeli fiction from the 1940s to the present

1 post
Yemen in Crisis

by Helen Lackner

Expert analysis of Yemen's social and political crisis, with profound implications for the fate of the Arab World

1 post
The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

by Bernard Regan

The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed Palestine’s fate

5 posts

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