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BOOK REVIEWS

• Review of The Discovery of Albania - History Today
• Review of The Carians published in Cornucopia magazine
• Review of On Travel and The Journey Through Life. Click here for the book.
• Review of The Buried by Peter Hessler; Only the Dead by Ted Gorton - published in Country Life
• Review of The Land of the White Horse: visions of England by David Miles - published in Country Life
• Review of Islamic Empires: Fifteen cities that define a Civilization, by Justin Marozzi - published in History Today, October 2019
• In the Name of God: A History of Christian and Muslim Intolerance by Selina O'Grady - published in The Oldie, November 2019
• Review of The Stopping Places: a journey through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas, published by Chatto & Windus, ISBN 978-1-784-74103-7 - published in Country Life
• Review of ARABS, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's 3,000 year history - published in History Today, June 2019, pages 96-98
• Review of A Walk like no other, East of Asia Minor, Rome's Hidden Frontier by Timothy Bruce Mitford - published in Cornucopia, issue 57, 2018
• Review of 123 Places in Turkey: A Private Grand Tour by Francis Russell - published in Cornucopia, issue 57, 2018
• THE STOPPING PLACES: a journey through Gypsy Britain, Damian Le Bas - review Country Life, 2018
• Man for our Times - review of Victorian Muslim, Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West - for the TLS, January 12, 2018
• Ariel: A literary Life of Jan Morris, by Derek Johns
• Al-Britannia, my country, by James Fergusson
• Footprints in Spain: British lives in a foreign land, by Simon Courtauldt
• The Man Who Created The Middle East: A story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Christopher Sykes
• The Marches by Rory Stewart
• Sufism & Surrealism by Adonis
• Outlandish Knight, The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman by Minoo Dinshaw
• Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam by Innes Bowen
• Unreasonable Behaviour by Don McCullin
• Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm
• The Naked Shore: of the North Sea by Tom Blass
• Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria痴 Great Merchant City by Philip Mansel
• Two Arabs, A Berber and a Jew: Entangled Lives in Morocco by Lawrence Rosen
• The Art of Exile by John Freely
• The Fall of the Ottomans, by Eugene Rogan
• The Rise of the Islamic State, Patrick Cockburn
• On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life, Lesley Blanch
• Loyal Enemies; British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950 by Jamie Gilham
• God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners by Marius Kociejowski
• Where travel writing is now - published in Renegade, the Alternative Travel Magazine, Issue I
• Review of "A History of Modern Morocco" by Susan Gilson Miller
• Review of "Gaddafi's Harem" by Annick Cojean
• Review of "The Train in Spain" by Christopher Howse
• Review of "The Sword and The Cross" by Fergus Fleming
• Review of "MEANDER: East to West along a Turkish River" by Jeremy Seal
• Review of "Brazil" by Michael Palin
• Review of "And Man Created God: Kings, Cults and Conquests at the Time of Jesus" by Selina O'Grady
• Review of "The Barbary Figs" by Rashid Boudjedra
• Review of "Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan" by William Dalyrymple
• Review of "Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure" by Artemis Cooper
• Review of "The Shadow of the Sword" by Tom Holland
• Review of "The Story of the Damascus Drum" by Christopher Ryan
• Review of "An Evil Eye" by Jason Goodwin
• 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辿anlon and Rudi Rotthier
• Review of "The Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean" by Philip Mansel
• Review of JERUSALEM by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
• Landfalls; On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Batutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
• 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痴 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痴 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
• Afterword to Paul Bowles's Let it Come Down
• Libya Archaeological Guides; TRIPOLITANIA
• Sacred Sierra - a year on a Spanish mountain by Jason Webster
• Travels With Herodotus by Justin Marozzi
• 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
• 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
• 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
• South From Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara by Justin Marozzi - Country Life, 2001
• Syria - A historial and architectural guide by Warwick Ball
• The Court of the Caliphs: The Rise and Fall of Islamｹs 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
• 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
  
  See also Reading List

• Review of Troy: Myth and Reality exhibition at the British Museum
  Cornucopia magazine
• Review of Troy: Myth and Reality exhibition at the British Museum
  Country Life
• Review of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal exhibition at the British Museum
  Country Life, January 9, 2019
• ART DIVINE, review of LIVING WITH GODS & IMAGINING THE DIVINE
  Exhibitions at the British Museum and Ashmolean, review for Country Life, December 13, 2017
• Celts: Art and Identity at the National Museum of Scotland
• The Prince and the Pyramids, CAIRO TO CONSTANTINOPLE an exhibition of Francis Bedford痴 early Photographs of the Middle East, first at the Queens Gallery, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh and later at Buckingham Palace, 2013.
• Haj Exhibition at British Museum, Jan - April, 2012
• Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art
• Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia - Review of exhibition at the British Museum, Country Life, 2005
• The Only Minds Worth Winning - Review of T E Lawrence exhibition at The Imperial War Museum, Country Life, January 2006
• Visit to the Palestine Exploration Fund

• Click here for reviews of Heirs of the Prophet and the roots of the Sunni-Shia schism