Most Read This Week In Middle East

The Middle East (also called the Mid East) is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia.

The term "Middle East" usually includes the Levant countries (Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestinian territories), the Arabian Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen), Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. Some definitions may include the Maghreb (Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia), Afghanistan, Pakistan, and/or Cyprus.

The corresponding adjective is Middle-Eastern and the derived noun is Middle-Easterner. Formerly, the Eurocentric synonym Near East (as oppo
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Middle East"

The Lion Women of Tehran
Good People
Martyr!
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
There Are Rivers in the Sky
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
The Island of Missing Trees
Daughter of Egypt
When We See You Again
Fundamentally
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
L'homme qui lisait des livres
Hostage
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Damascus Station
The Coin
What I Know About You
Good Girl
The Message
The Persian
When the Fireflies Dance
This Is Where the Serpent Lives
The Persians
My Friends
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Hijab Butch Blues
Behind You Is the Sea
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3.5)
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea (Antique Hunter’s, #2)
The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1)
Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2)
Enter Ghost
What Strange Paradise
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
The Storyteller of Casablanca
Paradiso 17
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
Evil Eye
Quando il mondo dorme. Storie, parole e ferite della Palestina
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
The Queen's Cook (Queen Esther's Court, #1)
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
The Peacock and the Sparrow
War
Sparks Like Stars
The Royal Artisan (Queen Esther's Court, #2)
Shubeik Lubeik
The Hidden Prince
Songs for the Brokenhearted
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
Sira
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization
قناع بلون السماء
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
Liquid: A Novel
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
War on Gaza
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
I Will Greet the Sun Again
I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir
The Peasant King
L'Arabe du futur 6 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1994–2011
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Forest of Noise: Poems
The Arsonists' City
When the Apricots Bloom
The Beijing Betrayal (Marcus Ryker, #6)
Free Ride
Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists
Woman, Life, Freedom
Kareem Between
Floodlines
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
Hyper
Gaza Faces History
Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History
Hotline
Houris
Splendor of the Land (The King's Men, #3)
Rifqa
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)
Moi, Fadi, le frère volé, 1986-1994
A Man at Arms
What Will People Think?
The Ashfire King (The Sandsea Trilogy, #2)
The Human Scale
The Accidental Soldier
Autocorrect: Stories
Voice of the Ancient (The King's Men, #1)
The Oceans and the Stars
How to Love Your Daughter
If the Palestinian people really suffered a nakba, it was largely of their own making — and that of their grand mufti.
Sol Stern, A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred

...the Palestinian Arabs' obsession with the Jews and rejection of all political compromise was inspired by Islamic teachings as well as by European fascism. ...more
Sol Stern, A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred

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