What to Read After The Modern Middle East
Readers who loved The Modern Middle East by James L. Gelvin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Modern Middle East is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Modern Middle East
The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
A history of Iraq
Sowing Crisis
Carbon Democracy
History of Modern Palestine
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East
Arabs
A history of modern Iran
1100 words you need to know
After the Fact
The Iron Wall
Palestinian Identity
A Line in the Sand
Modern Iran
Wild Thorns
When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World
The decline anf fall of the Ottoman Empire
Palestine's Children
Good Muslim, bad Muslim
'T.E. Lawrence' in Arabia and After
Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know
Orientalism
Nickel and Dimed
Modern Romance