Politics

The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East How the Middle East can achieve political change and social progress The Middle East is in upheaval: a widening chasm...

And The Politics Of Appeal Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. Palestine is a microcosm...

Women, Life, Freedom The first major book on the new Iranian revolution 'A document of real optimism.' Guardian On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a...

Background, Details, and Analysis A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices. Revisit Ghassan Kanafani’s pivotal text in a new English edition. Kanafani presents a...

Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial...

A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020 'What...

War and Settler Colonialism In the summer of 2014, Israel launched its most devastating offensive on the besieged Gaza Strip to date. Israel sealed its perimeters, expanded its buffer zones,...

Deliverance and Despair in IranBy 2013, Iranians were suffocating, as though the streets had become narrower, the buildings taller, the dirty air thicker. In electing Hassan Rouhani, they chose a...

The Shah, the Opposition, and the US, 1953-1968The Shah's gradual transition to dictatorship after the 1953 coup in Iran, and its far-reaching consequencesIn this detailed political history of Iran from...

A critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran — an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of...

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection. A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern...

Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab GulfA critical analysis of the Houthi movement's beliefs and ways of thinking, showing how these impact on Yemen and Arab Gulf security.The Huthi...

Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisonsWith a foreword by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winnerExtended solitary confinement has been condemned as a severe...