HISTORY / Middle East / General

Taliban

The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond

by Ahmed Rashid

Cairo 1921

Ten Days that Made the Middle East

by C. Brad Faught

The Bin Laden Papers

How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family

by Nelly Lahoud

The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art

The Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art

Edited by Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts and Jochen Sokoly

The Prophet's Heir

The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib

by Hassan Abbas

The Battle for Syria

International Rivalry in the New Middle East

by Christopher Phillips

The Crusader Armies

1099–1187

by Steve Tibble

Arabs

A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Christ’s Associations

Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City

by John S. Kloppenborg

Iran

A Modern History

by Abbas Amanat

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

by Jonathan Phillips

The Levant Express

The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East

by Micheline R. Ishay

Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks

Highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection

Edited by Agnete W. Lassen, Eckart Frahm and Klaus Wagensonner

Palmyra

Mirage in the Desert

by Joan Aruz

Persian Gulf Command

A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq

by Ashley Jackson

Sumerian Literary and Historical Inscriptions

Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts

by William W. Hallo

Other primary creator Harold Torger Vedeler

Edited by Mark E. Cohen and Ulla Kasten