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
The Island of Missing Trees
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Fundamentally
Hostage
The Message
Good Girl
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
The Persian
Damascus Station
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
The Coin
Ce que je sais de toi
The Persians
Hijab Butch Blues
My Friends
The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience
This Is Where the Serpent Lives
Daughter of Egypt
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea (Antique Hunter’s, #2)
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1)
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Woman, Life, Freedom
Enter Ghost
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
The Storyteller of Casablanca
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
War
For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
Sparks Like Stars
The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3.5)
Evil Eye
What Strange Paradise
The Ashfire King (The Sandsea Trilogy, #2)
Paradiso 17
Sira
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
Songs for the Brokenhearted
Behind You Is the Sea
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization
The Peacock and the Sparrow
The Queen's Cook (Queen Esther's Court, #1)
Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History
Liquid: A Novel
Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2)
L'Arabe du futur 6 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1994–2011
What Will People Think?
Hotline
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
The Royal Artisan (Queen Esther's Court, #2)
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
Free Ride
The Hidden Prince
How to Love Your Daughter
Too Soon
Houris
The Bad Muslim Discount
Kareem Between
Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists
Forest of Noise: Poems
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Take What You Can Carry
The Peasant King
Kantika
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
Splendor of the Land (The King's Men, #3)
War on Gaza
Voice of the Ancient (The King's Men, #1)
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
Gold
Rebel
Floodlines
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
The World After Gaza: A Short History
The Human Scale
It Won't Always Be Like This
A Knot Is Not a Tangle
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
The Oceans and the Stars
Active Defense (Danger Never Sleeps, #3)
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Moi, Fadi, le frère volé, 1986-1994
Madame Hayat
The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
A Short History of the Gaza Strip
The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
Huono tyttö
Dearborn: Stories
Hyper
Tehrangeles
Mahmoud Darwish
Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of my father's house. Take me to your vineyard. Let me meet your mother. Perfume me with basil water. Arrange me on silver dishes, comb me, imprison me in your name, let love kill me. ...more
Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

Christopher Hitchens
Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.
Christopher Hitchens, The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

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