REVIEWS BY BARNABY ROGERSON
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BOOK REVIEWS
- Review of "CAN INTERVENTION WORK?" by Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus
- Review of "A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped The Middle East, by James Barr
- Review of "The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean" by David Abulafia
- Review of "Britain and the Islamic World" by Gerald Maclean and Nabil Mattar
- Review of "The Honoured Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder and the Search for Truth in the Arab World" by Joseph Braude
- Review of "The Golden Age, The Spanish Empire of Charles V" by Hugh Thomas
- Review of "Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties" by Robert Iwin
- Review of "The Fetish Room" by Redmond O’Hanlon and Rudi Rotthier
- Review of "The Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean" by Philip Mansel
- Review of JERUSALEM by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
- The new "travellers' bibles"
- Landfalls; On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Batutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art by Peter Barber and Tom Harper
- Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-93 by Paul Bowles
- Wilfrid Thesiger in Africa: A Unique Collection of Essays & Personal Photographs,edited by Christopher Morton & Philip N. Grover
- Cleopatra’s Wedding Present; Travels through Syria, by Robert Tewdwr Moss
- Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo, by John Boreman
- THE GRAND TURK: Sultan Mehmet II - Conqueror of Constantinople, Master of an Empire and Lord of Two Seas by John Freely
- Erik Fischer’s Melchior Lorck, in four volumes
- Of Places in Turkey: A Pocket Grand Tour by Francis Russell
- The Pashas: traders and travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather
- Country Life Christmas travel supplement - True Travelling Companions: 20 Book Suggestions for the Traveller
- Afterword to Paul Bowles's Let it Come Down
- Libya Archaeological Guides; TRIPOLITANIA
- Sacred Sierra - a year on a Spanish mountain by Jason Webster
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- Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi - published in TLS under "Rites and Wrongs' - January 23, 2009
- A Lust for Knowing by Robert Irwin - Independent 2007
- Mint Imperial - review of Clara Semple's A Silver Legend, the story of the Maria Theresa Thaler - TLS 2006
- Bolter's Grand-daughter by Angela Culme-Seymour and
In the House of Muhammad Ali: A Family Album 1805-1952 by Hassan Hassan
- Cairo: City of Sand By Maria Golia
- The Cloud of Dust by Charlie Boxer
- Damascus: Hidden Treasures of the Old City, Brigid Keenan, photographs by Tim Beddow - Country Life, 2000
- High Tea in Mosul: the true story of two Englishwomen in war-torn Iraq, by Lynne O'Donnell - TLS
- The House by the Thames
- and the people who lived there by Gillian Tindall
- Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith - Country Life, May 2001
- In the Glow of the Phantom Palace: Travels from Granada to Timbuktu by Michael Jacobs - Country Life, Dec 2000
- Morocco; the Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges by Marvine Howe
- The Pale Abyssinian: A Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer by Miles Bredin - Country Life, Feb 2000
- Mirrors of the Unseen - Journeys in Iran by Jason Elliot
- Lost Oasis: In Search of Paradise by Robert Twigger
- Motya: Unearthing A Lost Civilization by Gaia Servadio - Country Life, April 2000
- Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh by Robert Irwin
- MOROCCO: From Empire to Independence by C.R.Pennell
- Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg by Jeremy Keenan, Country Life, Aug 2001
- The Rough Guide to West Africaby Jim Hudgens and Richard Trillo
- South From Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara by Justin Marozzi - Country Life, 2001
- Splendours of Morocco by Izza Genin - Independent, Dec 2000
- Syria - A historial and architectural guide by Warwick Ball
- The Court of the Caliphs: The Rise and Fall of Islam¹s Greatest Dynasty by Hugh Kennedy
- The Hall of a Thousand Columns; Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutahby Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- The Messenger; The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad By Tariq Ramadan
- The Punishment of Virtue by Sarah Chayes
- The Sword and the Cross by Fergus Fleming
- Trickster Travels; in search of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth century Muslim between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis
- Why Angels Fall: A Journey through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovoby Victoria Clark - Country Life, Aug 2000
- Dragoman Memoirs, the works of De Gaury, Storrs and Grafftey-Smith
- A Corkscrew is Most Useful:The Travellers of Empire by Nicholas Murray
- Charles Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta
- Robert Chenciner, Madder Red: A history of luxury and trade
- Judith Caesar, Writing off the Beaten Track: Reflections on the Meaning of Travel and Culture in the Middle East
- Stanley Stewart, In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomads
- Gavin Maxwell, Lords of the Atlas
- Books on Islam
- Books about Algeria
- Books about Turkey
- Best Books about Africa (North Africa)
- Best Books about North Africa
- Best biographies/auto-biographies ... chosen by Barnaby Rogerson (The Week)
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