Middle Eastern history

The thinking heart

A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person’s soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier? International Booker Prize winning Israeli novel...

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Recognising the stranger

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Award-winning author of ‘The Parisian’ and ‘Enter Ghost’ Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Lecture at Columbia University nine days before 7 October 2023. The tex...

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A day in the life of Abed Salama

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In this work, Nathan Thrall tells a gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision.

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Every rising sun

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Before she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who saw something she shouldn’t have. She told the king. She thought she was doing what was right....

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Merits of the plague

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Six hundred years ago, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani – an esteemed Islamic scholar and poet – survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, as well as millions of ...

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Witness the story of one of the great lives of ancient Greece. Cimon, son to Miltiades who commanded at Marathon, is a washed-out young drunk. He is as much a disappointment to himself as he is to ...

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Protector

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Persian King Xerxes stands over the smoking ruins of Athens, an army of slaves at his back. Come to destroy, once and for all, everything that the city stands for, he stares pitilessly at the hopel...

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Middle Eastern history

The thinking heart

Recognising the stranger

A day in the life of Abed Salama

Every rising sun

Merits of the plague

Lion

Protector

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