EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN / MIDDLE EAST
My small but growing library of books on antiquity and the Middle East. Neither organized, definitive or robust, nonetheless I found each of these volumes a worthwhile read.
Xenophon’s Anabasis: The March Up Country (1959 translation) W.H.D. Rouse (translator)
Hypatia of Alexandria (1996) Maria Dzielska
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among Christians of the Middle East (1997) William Dalrymple
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (1377) Ibn Khaldun
The Fertile Crescent 1800-1914: A Documentary Economic History (1988) Charles Issawi
Days of Our Years (1939) Pierre van Paassen
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (2010) Michael Korda
Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey (2002) Andrew Mango
In Search of Identity (1981) Anwar el-Sadat
Summing Up (1994) Yitzhak Shamir