Soldier in the Sand by Simon Mayall* – A Personal History of the Modern Middle East – is a history book with a personal touch and this is what makes it so fascinating. A historian by education, Mayall offers a very well though off analysis…
Lawrence of Arabia’s Secret Dispatches during the Arab Revolt, 1915–1919 by Fabrizio Bagatti* was just the book I wanted to read these days. I read for my studies about the mandates both from the point of self-determination as a human rights issue and from the…
I enjoyed The Crusades in 100 Objects by James Waterson* a lot. It has some pretty surprising objects, including new ones… and by new I mean 21st century objects which are related to the crusades nonetheless. That was a lovely surprise and I think it…
I got this book, Islam by Malise Ruthven, from the A Very Short Introduction series because I am studying the Middle East and I wanted to understand better the “basics” of Islam. This book covers a lot of topics relating to Islam and has important…
I read quite a few books on the Holocaust, but I did not know a lot about Israel. So, I was very curious to learn about the formation of the state, from the Story of Israel by Martin Gilbert*. I did not know much about…