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Author Directory A

Lisa Anderson

What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East

Mayors in the Middle: Indirect Rule and Local Government in Occupied Palestine

Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East

The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt

Battleground: Ten Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East

Building a New Yemen: Recovery, Transition, and the International Community

We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World

My Friends: A Novel

How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare

The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled

Syria Divided: Patterns of Violence in a Complex Civil War

Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change

Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt

25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs

Hydrocarbon Citizens: How Oil Transformed People and Politics in the Middle East

How the War in Gaza Is Reshaping the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, War, and the Failure of International Diplomacy

The Politics of Arab Authenticity: Challenges to Postcolonial Thought

My Egypt Archive

Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Egypt in the Cauldron of Gaza

The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Battle for Its Inner Soul

A Nearby Country Called Love: A Novel

Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime

The Egyptian Economy in the Twenty-First Century: The Hard Road to Inclusive Prosperity

A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures

Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq

Beyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon

The Economic Statecraft of the Gulf Arab States: Deploying Aid, Investment, and Development Across the MENAP

The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine?

Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism

Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt

Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War

This Arab Life: A Generation’s Journey Into Silence

A Vanishing West in the Middle East: The Recent History of U.S.-Europe Cooperation in the Region

The Forty-Year War

Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World: Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors After the Spring

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East

Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization

Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles

Oil Leaders: An Insider’s Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC’s Global Energy Policy

Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent

Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation, and Social Media

The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music

The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism Against Authoritarian Regimes

All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya

Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace

Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa

Degrees of Dignity: Arab Higher Education in the Global Era

States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan

Books for the Century: Middle East

Striking From the Margins: State, Religion, and Devolution of Authority in the Middle East

Mohammed bin Salman: The Icarus of Saudi Arabia?

Jordan and America: An Enduring Friendship

Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt

Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria

Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring

A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey’s Uncontainable Forces

Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy

Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation

The Middle East Crisis Factory: Tyranny, Resilience, and Resistance

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

A Short History of Islamic Thought

Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring

The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty

Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence

You Can Crush the Flowers: A Visual Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution

Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia

Informal Politics in the Middle East

After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition

Turkey: A Past Against History

Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State

The Republic of False Truths

The Egyptian Coffeehouse: Culture, Politics, and Urban Space

Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath

Global Jihad: A Brief History

The Power of Deserts: Climate Change, the Middle East, and the Promise of a Post-Oil Era

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging

Citizenship and Its Discontents: The Struggle for Rights, Pluralism, and Inclusion in the Middle East

Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon

Graveyard of the Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia

Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt

When Blame Backfires: Syrian Refugees and Citizen Grievances in Jordan and Lebanon

Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality

Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East

Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History

The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia

The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War

Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies

Escaping the Conflict Trap: Toward Ending Civil Wars in the Middle East

Hybrid Actors: Armed Groups and State Fragmentation in the Middle East

Re-engaging the Middle East: A New Vision for U.S. Policy

Cairo’s Ultras: Resistance and Revolution in Egypt’s Football Culture

The State in North Africa: After the Arab Uprisings

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

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