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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

By Wendy Pearlman

Citizen Hariri: Lebanon's Neo-Liberal Reconstruction

By Hannes Baumann

Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story

By Gabriele Vom Bruck

Twilight Nationalism: Politics of Existence at Life's End

By Daniel Monterescu, Haim Hazan

Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Afghan Islamists Who Changed the World

By Chris Sands, Fazelminallah Qazizai

Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope

By Kirsten Ellis

The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East

By Mahamood Riad

The Monk of Mokha

By Dave Eggers

Victor Two: Inside Iraq - The Successful SAS Mission

By Peter Crossland

Saddam: The Secret Life

By Con Coughlin

Desert Sniper: How One Ordinary Brit Went to War Against ISIS

By Ed Nash

Under the Wire

By Paul Conroy

The Soldiers Who Say No: True Stories of Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq

By Peter Laufer

The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

By Jeremy Narby

Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman

By Itamar Rabinovich

You Got Nothing Coming

By Jimmy Lerner

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

By Suzy Hansen

Curzon's Persia

By George Nathaniel Curzon, P. King

Some Other Rainbow

By John McCarthy, Jill Morrell

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

By Clarissa Ward

The Insider: Trapped In Saddam's Brutal Regime

By Ala Bashir

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

The Bookseller Of Kabul

By SEIERSTAD ASNE, Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

By Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland

Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity 1884-1914

By Taj al-Saltana

Bravo Two Zero: The Harrowing True Story of a Special Forces Patrol Behind the Lines in Iraq

By Andy McNab

Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions and for Africa.

By Tony Fitzjohn

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

By Raja Shehadeh

Eight Lives Down

By Chris Hunter

Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine

By Raja Shehadeh