Our English-Language Wishlist

This is the latest version of  Al-Manhal's English wishlist. We are also acquiring other fiction and non-fiction books in Arabic and English.

We do not necessarily endorse the views of all the books listed below, but we think that they are relevant for readers to delve into and form their own critical thoughts. 

This list is subject to constant changes based on our needs and our stock’s growth. 

If there is a book that you are surprised not to see below, it may be because we already have it. 

Fiction

• The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami
• Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek
• No One Prayed Over Their Graves by Khaled Khalifa
• The Frightened Ones by Dima Wannous
• The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar 
• Menstruation by Ammar Abdulhamid 

Non-Fiction

Syria

• Damascus: Hidden Treasures of the Old City by Brigid Keenan
• Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics by Hanna Batatu
• No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
• State and Tribes in Syria Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns By Haian Dukhan 
• Syria from Reform to Revolt: Volume 1: Political Economy and International Relations, edited by Raymond Hinnebusch Tina Zintl
• Syria from Reform to Revolt: Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion, edited by Christa Salamandra and Leif Stenberg
• Syria and the neutrality trapSyria and the Neutrality Trap: The Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes by Carsten Wieland
• Resurgence and Revolution: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight in Turkey and Syria by Aliza Marcus
• Syria: Revolution from Above by Raymond A. Hinnebusch 
• The Struggle for Syria: A Study in Post-War Arab Politics, 1945-1958 by Patrick Seale
• In Search of Greater Syria: The History and Politics of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party by Christopher Solomon
• The Kurds of Syria: Political Parties and Identity In the Middle East by Harriet Allsopp
• Commanding Syria: Bashar Al-Asad and the First Years in Power by Eyal Ziser 
• My Country: A Syrian Memoir by Kassem Eid
• My Struggle for Syria by Bassma Kodmani 
• Syria's Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant by Emile Hokayem
• The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915–1918 Khatchig Mouradian
• The Life and Memoirs of Fakhri al-Barudi: The Renaissance Man of Syria, 1887–1966 by Sami Moubayed
• The Alawis of Syria: War, Faith and Politics in the Levant by Michael Kerr
• Fragments of Memory by Hanna Mina
• Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East by Peter Hill
• Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Damascus by James Grehan
• Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo by Tala Jarjour
• Armenian Refugees in French Mandate Syria: Statelessness and Nation-Building in the Middle East by Victoria Abrahamyan
• (Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria: Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis by Nicola Migliorino
• Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism by Keith David Watenpaugh
• Syria’s Kurds: History, Politics and Society by Jordi Tejel
• Governance of Resistance in North and East Syria: The Experience of Rojava, edited by Zeynep Kaya and Robert Lowe
• Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria by Amy Austin Holmes
• Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority by Sebastian Maisel
• The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion by Birgül Açıkyıldız
• A History of the ʿAlawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic by Stefan Winter
• The Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs: An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria by Yaron Friedman
• The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism  by Michael Provence
• The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Provence
• Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution by Thomas Pierret
• The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham by Aaron Y. Zelin
• Occupying Syria under the French Mandate: Insurgency, Space and State Formation by Daniel Neep
• Our Hearts Burned for Home: Uyghur Militants in Syria’s Civil War by Emily Feng
• Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience by Joseph Daher
• Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria by Max Weiss
• Damascus: Taste of a City by Rafik Schami and Marie Fadel

The Region

• The Arab Awakening by George Antonius
• Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi
• The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East by Nicholas Morton
• Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World by Patricia Crone and Michael Cook
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
• Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798 -1939 by Albert Hourani
• We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World by Alex Rowell
• Umayyad Empire by Andrew Marsham
• Empire of Manners: Ottoman Sociability and War-Making in the Long Eighteenth Century by James Grehan
• Crescent Dawn: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern Age by Si Sheppard
• Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought by Hayrettin Yücesoy
•  From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan by Suzy Hansen
• Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King
• Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation by Leon McCarron
• Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by  Moudhy Al-Rashid
• What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz Gerges
• Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges
• Needs That Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes by Orçun Can Okan
• Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain by Brian A. Catlos
• King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson
• Purist Pursuits: Language, Global Ideas, and the Creation of Western Armenian in the Ottoman Empire by Jennifer Manoukian
• Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds Davis by Natalie Zemon
• Crucible of Light: Islam and the Forging of European Civilization by Elizabeth Drayson
• A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam by Thomas Bauer
• The Renewal of Islam: Thinkers and Believers of the Modern Era by Fitzroy Morrissey
• Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary 
• The Emergence of Islam: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective by Gabriel Said Reynolds
• In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire by Robert G. Hoyland
• The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein
• Christianity and the Qur'an: The Rise of Islam in Christian Arabia by Gabriel Said Reynolds
• The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam by Sidney H. Griffith
• The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the "People of the Book" in the Language of Islam by Sidney H. Griffith
• Orthodoxy in Arabic Terms: A Study of Theodore Abu Qurrah's Theology in Its Islamic Context by Najib George Awad
• The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity Françoise Briquel Chatonnet
• The Syriac World, edited by Daniel King
• Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I by David Gaunt
• Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide: A History by Joseph Yacoub
• Let Them Not Return: Sayfo—The Genocide against the Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire, edited by David Gaunt, Naures Atto and Soner O. Barthoma
• Justice and Islamic Law: Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform Jonathan by A.C. Brown
• Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy by Jonathan A.C. Brown
• A Short History of the Ismailis by Farhad Daftary
• Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations by Emily Conroy-Krutz

The World

• Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources by Olivia Remie Constable
• The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s by Jason Burke
• On Antisemitism: A Word in History by Mark Mazower
• Europe: A New History by Roderick Beaton
• Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert 
• The Romans: A 2,000-Year History by Edward J. Watts
• The World of the Cold War 1945-1991 Vladislav M. Zubok
• New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger
• Why Plato Matters Now by Angie Hobbs
• Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World by Simon Hall
• Hubris: The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine by Jonathan Haslam
• The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
• The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History by Michael Pembroke Hon Justice 
• Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company Patrick McGee
• The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature by Charlie English 
• Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World by John Cassidy
• Heroes by Stephen Fry  
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
• Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
• Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations Johan Norberg
• The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal 
• The West: The History of an Idea by Georgios Varouxakis
• The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times by Robert Cooper
• The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
• Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
•   Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
• The Power of Art by Simon Schama
•   The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
• The History of Philosophy by A.C. Grayling
• How the World Made the West by by Josephine Quinn
• Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World by Roger Crowley
• NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance by Sten Rynning