Amazing Women of the Middle East: 25 Stories from Ancient Times to Present Day

Amazing Women of the Middle East: 25 Stories from Ancient Times to Present Day

By Wafa’ Tarnowska
Reviewed by Piney Kesting on March 12, 2021
Writer, translator and storyteller Wafa’ Tarnowska’s...
Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife

Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife

By Aidan Dodson
Reviewed by Alva Robinson on March 10, 2021
The unearthing of Nefertiti's 3,000-year-old bust in 1912 has...
The Magnificent Conman of Cairo: A Novel

The Magnificent Conman of Cairo: A Novel

By Adel Kamel. Waleed Almusharaf, tr.
Reviewed by Marina Ali on January 15, 2021
In this underrated piece of Arab literature, we follow the lives of...
Parwana: Recipes and Stories From an Afghan Kitchen

Parwana: Recipes and Stories From an Afghan Kitchen

By Durkhanai Ayubi
Reviewed by Tom Verde on January 15, 2021
Afghani-born restaurateur Durkhanai Ayubi honors her parents, Zelmai and...
The Merchant of Syria: A History of Survival

The Merchant of Syria: A History of Survival

By Diana Darke
Reviewed by Piney Kesting on November 16, 2020
The Merchant of Syria tells the inspiring story of Abu Chaker (1921...
Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800

Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800

By Jonathan M. Bloom.
Reviewed by Lee Lawrence on September 10, 2020
Books about the arts of al-Andalus and the Maghrib typically focus on a...
AUB and Ras Beirut in 150 Years of Photographs

AUB and Ras Beirut in 150 Years of Photographs

By Maria Bashshur Abunassar
Reviewed by William Tracy on January 15, 2020
This coffee-table volume of photography focusing on the American...
The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt’s Medieval and Modern Appliqué Craft

The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt’s Medieval and Modern Appliqué Craft

By Seif El Rashidi and Sam Bowker
Reviewed by Caroline Stone on September 15, 2019
This book is a model of how to make the fruit of specialized academic...
Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man

Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man

By Jonathan Conlin
Reviewed by Robert W. Lebling on September 15, 2019
When Armenian Turkish businessman Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955, Life...
Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War

Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War

By Kevin Bubriski.
Reviewed by Judy Sultan on July 15, 2019
Today, many only know Syria as a geopolitical disaster and humanitarian...

A Stone in My Hand

By Cathryn Clinton
Reviewed on April 1, 2003
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A Woman of Five Seasons

By Leila Al-Atrash ; Nora Nweihid Halwani and Christopher Tingley, trs
Reviewed on April 1, 2003
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A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean, From

By Wright, Clifford A
Reviewed by Mediterranean Food Study Group, Cambridge Massachusetts on October 1, 2001
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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey

By Ahmed, Leila
Reviewed on April 1, 2001
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A Concise History of the Crusades

By Madden, Thomas F
Reviewed on April 1, 2001
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A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom

By Whitall Perry, ed.; introd. Huston Smith
Reviewed on April 1, 2001
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Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression

By Jon Kalb
Reviewed on April 1, 2001
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A Lake Beyond the Wind

By Yakhlif, Yahya; trans by May Jayyusi and Christopher Tingley
Reviewed on April 1, 2000
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Admiring Silence

By Abdulrazak Gurnah
Reviewed on April 1, 1997
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A Beirut Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries

By T. J> Gorton, ed.
Reviewed on January 1, 0001
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A Cairo Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing

By Deborah Manley, ed.
Reviewed on January 1, 0001
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A Nile Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries

By Deborah Manley and Sahar Abdel-Hakim, eds.
Reviewed on January 1, 0001
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