In 2014, a tribal alliance from Yemen’s northern regions seized the capital city of Sana’a and overthrew a republic that had ruled since 1962. Known as the Houthi Movement, these rebels are today vying for control, sparring with southern...
A century after Britain’s Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish ‘national home’ in Palestine, veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major new history of one of the most polarising conflicts of the modern age. Drawing on a wide...
The Weight of a Mustard Seed is the intimate, startling and gripping account of the slow destruction of a man, his family and his country. General Kamel Sachet was a decorated hero of the long Iran-Iraq war and a...
A gripping eyewitness account of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution as told by the only American present throughout the turmoil. The Cold War exploded in Zanzibar in 1964 when African rebels slaughtered one of every ten Arabs. Led by a...
Award-winning journalist James Fergusson is among the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the failed and desperate state of Somalia. This corner of the world has long been seen as the rotting...
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