Books

Saints, scholars and queens: The women who helped forge Islam

Hossein Kamaly's History of Islam in 21 Women is a warts-and-all celebration of the women who helped shape one of the world's biggest religions

How Turkish TV, Bollywood and K-pop spell the end for the American century

'Between Beirut and the Moon': The story of an unfulfilled odyssey

'Shy Radicals': The book that demands an inclusive world for introverts

Plague and poetry: How Middle East authors have written about disease

Egyptian cult classics: 11 books that are worth reading

The Olive Trees' Jazz: Algiers poet speaks in music of the senses

Books and bombs: How I healed myself through fiction

Jared Kushner, here are 25 more books you should read about Palestine, Israel relations

The best Middle East books of the year - picked by Middle East Eye writers

‘I sort of broke English’: Meet the Lebanese poet crossing boundaries

When We Were Arabs: 'I am not an Oriental'

Palestine in 2048: Staring into a black mirror

The best YA books: 10 Middle East authors worth reading

Arab poet Mourid Barghouti: Watching the leaves fall

The comic artist who fled Syria and found himself

Egypt's Jews: One writer's homage to a lost history

The Boy at the Back of the Class: Hit children's writer on her story of kindness

Man Booker International Prize: Jokha Alharthi is first Arab winner

Oman's Jokha Alharthi wins prestigious Man Booker International prize

Laila Lalami: ‘Whoever tells the story controls the world’