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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 40,007 ratings — published 2020
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,130 ratings — published 1989
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,802 ratings — published 2009
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,733 ratings — published 1991
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,646 ratings — published 1978
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,355 ratings — published 2003
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,990 ratings — published 2012
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,080 ratings — published 1983
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,066 ratings — published 2011
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,688 ratings — published 2005
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,841 ratings — published 2015
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
by (shelved 11 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,803 ratings — published 2005
A History of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,846 ratings — published 1993
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,659 ratings — published 2010
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,780 ratings — published 2009
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,344 ratings — published 2001
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,897 ratings — published 2023
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,503 ratings — published 2022
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,249 ratings — published 2008
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,161 ratings — published 1973
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,037 ratings — published 2015
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,931 ratings — published 2015
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,552 ratings — published 2010
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,227 ratings — published 2006
Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,562 ratings — published 2005
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,935 ratings — published 2006
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,348 ratings — published 2019
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,043 ratings — published 1976
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,588 ratings — published 2005
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,406 ratings — published 1989
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 956 ratings — published 2017
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,510 ratings — published 2011
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,472 ratings — published 2012
The Modern Middle East: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 882 ratings — published 2004
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,387 ratings — published 2013
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 17,490 ratings — published 2013
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,834 ratings — published 2009
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,863 ratings — published 2024
The Venture of Islam, Vol 1: The Classical Age of Islam (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 559 ratings — published 1974
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,759 ratings — published 2020
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,620 ratings — published 2018
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,364 ratings — published 2017
In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 764 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 218,489 ratings — published 2007
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,525 ratings — published 1995
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,830,164 ratings — published 2007
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 242,762 ratings — published 2003
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,035 ratings — published 2022
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,190 ratings — published 2021
On Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,908 ratings — published 2015
“BCCI's ascendancy was also due to business practices that were highly unusual in the staid world of banking. Other banks gave toaster ovens to new depositors; BCCI provided prostitutes... The report says that the woman was reputed to have first won the attention of the royal family "by arranging to get virgin women from the villages from the ages of 16 to 20... According to one U.S. investigator with substantial knowledge of BCCI's activities, some BCCI officials have acknowledged that some of the females provided some members of the Al-Nahyan family were young girls who had not yet reached puberty, and in certain cases, were physically injured by the experience. The official said that former BCCI officials had told him that BBCI also provided males to homosexual VIPs.”
― House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
― House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
“MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and those that have lots of oil and very little history. With a few notable exceptions, both groups share a common feature: they were cobbled together by outsiders. The borders of the modern Middle East were drawn by Europeans after the First World War with no regard for the interests or backgrounds of the people who inhabited it.”
― And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
― And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
