The New York Review of Books

Libya: The Losers

October 13, 2011

From Cairo: Goodbye to bin Laden

June 9, 2011

‘Volcano of Rage’

March 24, 2011

Yemen, al-Qaeda, and the US

September 30, 2010

Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes by Victoria Clark

Which Way for Hamas?

November 5, 2009

Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement by Zaki Chehab

Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence by Jeroen Gunning

Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas by Paul McGeough

The Iran Mystery Case

January 15, 2009

Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US, and the Twisted Path to Confrontation by Barbara Slavin

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel,Iran, and the United States by Trita Parsi

Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader by Kasra Naji

Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran’s Most Powerful Leader by Karim Sadjadpour

The Struggle for Iran by Christopher de Bellaigue

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran by Hooman Majd

The Arab Spring, and After

May 15, 2008

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright

An American in Iran

January 17, 2008

‘Lebanon’s Agony’

September 27, 2007

Lebanon’s Agony

June 28, 2007

Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East by Nicholas Blanford

Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton

Hizbullah: The Story from Within by Naim Qassem

Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam Among Palestinians in Lebanon by Bernard Rougier, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh

How Terrible Is It?

November 30, 2006

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (September 2002) National Security Council

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (March 2006) National Security Council

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Louise Richardson

Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them by John Mueller

Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism by Charles Peña

War Within War

September 21, 2006

The Time of the Shia

August 10, 2006

Reaching for Power: The Shi’a in the Modern Arab World by Yitzhak Nakash

The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr

Their Master’s Voice

March 9, 2006

Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden edited and with an introductionby Bruce Lawrence, translated from the Arabic by James Howarth

The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader by Peter L. Bergen

The Truth About Jihad

August 11, 2005

Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal

Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy

The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel,translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh

Understanding Terror Networks by Marc Sageman

Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality and Modernity by Faisal Devji

A New Lebanon?

April 28, 2005

‘Unloved in Arabia’

February 10, 2005

Unloved in Arabia

October 21, 2004

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties by Craig Unger

Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent by Mamoun Fandy

Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism by Dore Gold

Inside the Mirage: America’s Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia by Thomas Lippman

Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Saudi Arabia by Colin Wells

Can Saudi Arabia Reform Itself? a report by the International Crisis Group

Islam Confronts Its Demons

April 29, 2004

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb, translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Ann Reid

Shaping the Current Islamic Reformation edited by B.A. Roberson

Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World by Carl W. Ernst

Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition by Yohanan Friedmann

The Future of Political Islam by Graham E. Fuller

Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists by Raymond William Baker

Islam and Democracy in the Middle East edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Daniel Brumberg

Progressive Muslims on Justice, Gender, and Pluralism edited by Omid Safi

Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out edited by Ibn Warraq

The Occupation

August 14, 2003

Bohemia in Baghdad

July 3, 2003

Witch Hunt in Egypt

November 16, 2000

Bin Laden's Death: Why the Arab World Shrugs

May 9, 2011

How to Deal With Yemen

November 9, 2010

Jaipur

January 29, 2010