Middle East

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This image depicts Ali, a Jesus-like figure in Alawite theology.
Alawites and the Fate of Syria
October 23, 1983, a massive explosion ripped through the barracks of the battalion landing team (BLT) of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit at the Beirut International Airport.
Middle East Remains Unstable 30 Years after Attacks on Peacekeepers in Lebanon
Iranian postage stamp commemorating the shooting down of Iran Air 655 in 1988.
Viewpoint Iran: The Past and Present of the U.S.-Iran Standoff
The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan Book Cover.
Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
soldiers patrolling in Iraq
The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later
The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which was constructed by the Umayyads in the 8th century.
Islamic Imperialism: A History
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin Book Cover
Byzantium for Dummies
Cover of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris.
The Battle For 1948
Cover of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman.
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend
Cover of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina.
The End of the World as They Knew It
Cover of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster.
Babylon Revisited
Cover of A History of Iran Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy.
Iran for Beginners
Cover of Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Hanioğlu.
Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"
Cover of Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Molly Greene.
Pirates, Pirates Everywhere but Not Enough of Them in This Book
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam
The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The father of a Syrian general killed in the civil war attends his son's funeral in Damascus in January 2012.
Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising
The statue of Saddam Hussein topples in Baghdad's Firdos Square on April 9, 2003.
A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq
An Israeli solider stands guard on the road to Ismailia during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?
A ship moves along the Bosporus through Istanbul, part of the only sea route from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal
President Jimmy Carter offers a toast to Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, calling Iran 'an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world.'
Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900
Philippoteaux - Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag.
The Challenges of 1848 Reprised in the Middle East Today
Members of the Free Officers welcomed by crowds in Cairo in January 1953.
The Egyptian Middle Class Is Disgruntled. Again.
Map of the Gaza Strip in May 2005, a few months prior to the Israeli withdrawal. The major settlement blocs were the blue-shaded regions of this map.
Threads of Hope Glimmer in the Middle East
A U.S. Tank in Karbala, Iraq, May 2004. The American experiences in Afghanistan and especially Iraq over the past eight years have forced the U.S. military to rethink how it approaches counterinsurgent warfare. After some successes in Iraq, will the new counterinsurgency doctrine also work in Afghanistan?
From Baghdad to Kabul: The Historical Roots of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine