Palestine
Haraka Baraka, Alex Adetiba and Charlie Davis (Editors), SkatePal, 2024
The Erasure of Palestine, Ahmad Al-Bazz, MuseumsEtc, 2025
Le Phénomène Gaza, Mahmoud Alkurd, Images Plurielles Édition, 2020
My Gaza: A City in Photographs, Jehad al-Saftawi, McSweeney’s, 2020
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba, Teresa Arunguren and Sandra Barrilaro, Haymarket Books, 2024
Time Suspended, Herman Asselberghs, Els Opsomer, Pieter Van Bogaert, SQUARE VZW, 2004
Palestine: A Photographic Journey, George Baramki Azar, University of California Press, 1991
Born of Sand and Sun, Petra Bašnáková, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2024
Disruptions, Taysir Batniji, Loose Joints, 2024
Home Away From Home, Taysir Batniji, Aperture, 2018
MOLATHAM, Scott Caruth, Trolley Books, 2019
Chicago: Everything That Happened, Happened Here First, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, SteidlMACK, 2006
Anchor in the Landscape, Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez, MACK, 2024
The Land That Remains: Photographs from Palestine, Federico Busonero, Hatje Cantz, 2016
La Danse Des Pierres: Les Territoires Occupés Par l’armée Israélienne, Jean-Claude Coutausse, Éditions Denoël, 1990
‘Om (Mother), Barbara Debeuckelaere, The Eriskay Connection, 2024
The Palestinians, Jonathan Dimbleby and Donald McCullin, Quartet Books, 1979
Palestine, l’envers du miroir, Fouad Elkoury, Éditions Hazan, 1996
Habibi, Antonio Faccilongo, FotoEvidence Press, 2020
Palestine Existences-Resistances, Rogério Ferrari, Éditions le passager clandestin, 2008
The Other in Palestine, Matei Glass, Actar Publishers, 2003
Les Yeux de Gaza, Fatma Hassona, Éditions Textuel, 2025
Windows in the Wall, Rebecca Heyl, Skira Editore, 2008
Jenseits von Jerusalem / Out of Jerusalem, Olivia Heussler, Benteli Verlag, 1993
The Only House Left Standing: The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall, Tom Hurndall, Trolley Books, 2012
Dying to Exist, Sakir Khader, 550BC, 2024
Black Friday, Kent Klich, Kehrer Verlag, 2015
Killing Time, Kent Klich, Journal, 2013
Gaza Photo Album, Kent Klich, Journal, 2009
Gaza Works, Kent Klich, Hasselblad Foundation/Koenig Books, 2017
GZA On Land and Air, Kent Klich, DOGWALK Platform, 2024
Wall: Israeli & Palestinian Landscape 2008-2012, Josef Koudelka, Aperture, 2013
The Resolution of the Suspect, Miki Kratsman, Radius Books, 2016
Fallen Empires, Shai Kremer, Radius Books, 2011
Visions: Palestine, Andrea Künzig, Kehrer Verlag, 2004
From the Land of Miracles, Wendy Sue Lamm, Contrasto, 2005
Ordinary Lives, Rania Mattar, Quantuck Lane Press, 2009
War-Toys: Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Brian McCarty, McCarty PhotoWorks, 2013
Zurück in Gaza, Samir Mohdad, Lokwort Buchverlag, 1996
Côte à côte ou face à face: Israéliens et Palestiniens: 50 ans de photographies, Jean Mohr, Editions Labor et Fides, 2003
Time and Remains of Palestine, James Morris, Kehrer Verlag, 2015
Palestinians: Life Under Occupation, Nancy Murray, The Middle East Justice Network, 1991
Driving in Palestine, Rehab Nazzal, Fernwood Publishing, 2023
The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine, Margaret Olin and David Shulman, Intellect Ltd, 2024
Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians, Judah Passow, Halban Publishers, 2008
West Bank, Sophie Ristelhueber, Thames & Hudson, 2005
Under My Window, Michal Safdie, powerHouse Books, 2018
Unresolved, Meinrad Schade, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018
Phantom Home, Ahlam Shalabi, Hatje Cantz, 2013
The Erasure Trilogy, Fazal Sheikh, Steidl, 2015
Gaza: I Spy, Feda Shtia, Anas Ayyad, Hammam Younis Alzyatuniya, Sunono Publishing, 2024
One Month in Palestine, William Shum, The Institute of Barbarian Books, 2019
Ground, Bruno Stevens, Lannoo Publishers, 2011
Thomas Struth, Thomas Struth, MACK, 2014
Speak Palestine, Speak Again, Martin A. Sugarman, Sugarman Productions, 1997 (Review)
Apartheid is a Crime: Portraits of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, Mats Svensson, Cune Press, 2020
Destroyed House, Marjan Teeuwen, Valiz, 2017
A People Called Palestine, J. C. Tordai and Graham Usher, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2001
Into the Promised Land, J. C. Tordai and Harvey Morris, Cornerhouse Publications, 1991
No Man’s Land, Larry Towell, Chris Boot Ltd, 2005
Then Palestine, Larry Towell, Aperture, 1998
NAKBA_DAY, Adrien Vautier, Editions Nuit Noire, 2019
The Book of Destruction, Kai Wiedenhöfer, Steidl, 2010
Perfect Peace, Kai Wiedenhöfer, Steidl, 2002
Wall, Kai Wiedenhöfer, Steidl, 2007
Wanderland: Israel-Palestine, Multiple photographers, Kerber Verlag, 2006
Lebanon
Not Here Not There, Charbel Alkhoury, Middle East Archive, 2025
Back To Beirut, Gabriele Basilico, Contrasto, 2023
God Cried, Tony Clifton and Catherine Leroy, Quartet Books, 1983
A Lebanese Archive: From The Collection Of Diab Alkarssifi, Ania Dabrowska, Book Works & Arab Image Foundation, 2015
Beyrouth centre-ville, Raymond Depardon, Éditions Points Paris, 2010
Liban Provisoire, Fouad Elkoury, Éditions Hazan, 1998
On War and Love (De La Guerre et de L’Amour), Fouad Elkoury, Editions Intervalles, 2007 (Review)
Beirut, a City in Crisis, Don McCullin, New English Library Ltd, 1983 (Review)
Beirut City Center, Larry McPherson, Steidl, 2006
Beyrouth Mutations, Samer Mohdad, Actes Sud, 2012
Les enfants la guerre: Liban 1985-1992, Samer Mohdad, Agence Vu, 1993
Double Blind: War in Lebanon 2006, Paolo Pellegrin and Scott Anderson, Trolley Books, 2007
Beirut: City of Regrets, Eli Reed and Fouad Ajami, W. W. Norton & Company, 1988
Syria
An Act of Unspeakable Violence, Matthias Bruggmann, Éditions Xavier Barral & Musée de l’Elysée, 2018
Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War, Kevin Bubriski, powerHouse Books, 2018
Euphrate, le pays perdu, Hugues Fontaine, Actes Sud, 2000
Yalla Habibi: Living with War in Aleppo, Hosam Katan, Kehrer Verlag, 2017 (Review)
Democratic Desert: The War in Syria, Robert King, Schilt Publishing, 2014
A Handful of Dust, Nish Nalbandian, Daylight Books, 2018
Jordan
The Echo of Our Voices: The Day May Break, Chapter Four, Nick Brandt, Skira Editore, 2025
Afghanistan
Dread and Dreams, Zalmaï Ahad, Daylight Books, 2015
Return, Afghanistan, Zalmaï Ahad, Aperture, 2004
Passage to Afghanistan, Peter Bussian, Skyhorse Publishing, 2016
Arms Against Fury: Magnum Photographers in Afghanistan, Robert Dannin (Editor), powerHouse Books, 2002
Kings of Afghanistan, Pieter-Jan De Pue, Lannoo Publishers, 2019
Inshallah, Dima Gavrysh, Kehrer Verlag, 2015
Afghanistan, 1980-1989, Edward Grazda, Verlag Der Alltag, 1990
Afghanistan Diary, 1992-2000, Edward Grazda, powerHouse Books, 2000
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, Frédéric Lemercier, First Second, 2009
Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul, Ron Haviv and Ilana Ozernoy, de.MO, 2002
Afghanistan: Paradise Lost, Roland Michaud and Sabrina Michaud, Thames & Hudson, 1980
Afghanistan: The Land That Was, Roland Michaud and Sabrina Michaud, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002
Afghanistan: A Distant War, Robert Nickelsberg, Prestel Verlag, 2013
Afghanistan: Broken Promise, Moises Saman, Edizioni Charta, 2007
Hidden, Paul Seawright, The Imperial War Museum, 2003
The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan, Fazal Sheikh, Scalo, 1998
Afghanistan, Chris Steele-Perkins, Westzone Publishing Ltd, 2001
Iraq
Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Throne Anderson, Rita Leistner, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2005
Iraq: The Space Between, Christoph Bangert, powerHouse Books, 2007
Just Another War, Exene Cervenka and Kenneth Jarecke, Bedrock Press, 1992
Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq, Michael Kamber, University of Texas Press, 2013
Inside Iraq, Yuri Kozyrev, Éditions C.D.P., 2008
End of the Caliphate, Ivor Prickett, Steidl, 2019
Baghdad: Truth Lies Within, Bruno Stevens, Ludion, 2004
Baghdad Blues: A War Diary, David Turnley, Vendome Press, 2003
Desert Diaries: Photojournalists on the War in Iraq, Multiple photographers, Channel Photographics, 2003
Egypt
Egypt Every Day, Yasser Alwan, Hatje Cantz, 2022
Egypt, Dorothy Bohm, Thames & Hudson, 1989
Egypt: In the Mirror of Timelessness, Loïc Bréard, Seltmann Publishers, 2014
Still Alive, Scarlett Coten, Actes Sud, 2009
Fils de roi, portraits d’ Egypte, Denis Dailleux, Éditions Gallimard, 2008
As It May Be, Bieke Depoorter, Aperture, 2018
Cinema Cairo Palace: 1985-1996, Fouad Elkoury, Kaph Books, 2024
Suite Égyptienne, Fouad Elkoury, Actes Sud, 1999
The Dog Sat Where We Parted, Mahmoud Khattab, self-published, 2024
Egypt: Reflections on Continuity, Richard Pare, Timken Publishers, Inc., 1990
Embed in Egypt: A Story Without a Beginning, Emine Gozde Sevim, Kehrer Verlag, 2016
Libya
Libyan Sugar, Michael Christopher Brown, Twin Palm Publishers, 2016
Evidence, Diana Matar, Schilt Publishing, 2014
Algeria
Algeria, Dirk Alvermann, Steidl, 2011
Algérie Indépendance, Marc Riboud, Le Bec en l’air Éditions, 2009
A Little Louder, Abdo Shanan, Editorial RM, 2022
Inside Algeria, Michael von Graffenried, Aperture, 1998
Yemen
Three Days in Sanaa, Houssam Abou Taha, self-published, 2020
I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows, Thana Faroq, Lecturis, 2020
Yemen: Photographic Works, Josef Hoflehner, Most/Press, 2016
Photography from Yemen, Ibi Ibrahim and Lizzy Vartanian (Editors), Makan Press, 2024
Eight Days in Yemen, Peter Schlesinger, Damiani, 2021
Unfinished War: A Journey Through Civil War in Yemen, Asmaa Waguih, Helion & Company, 2024
Morocco
Daoud Aoulad-Syad, Daoud Aoulad-Syad, Filigranes Éditions, 2015
Essaouira, Bruno Barbey, Editions du Chêne, 2001
Fès: Immobile, Immortelle, Bruno Barbey, Imprimerie Nationale Éditions, 1996
La salle de classe, Hicham Benohoud, Les Éditions de l’Œil, 2001
La salle de classe, Hicham Benohoud, Loose Joints, 2025
Morocco, Paul Bowles and Barry Brukoff, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993
Look Up to the Moon, John Cohen, Steidl, 2019
Die Sahraouis: Sohne und Tochter der Wolken, Christine de Grancy, Greno Verlagsgesellschaft, 1987
Morocco, Harry Gruyaert, Thames & Hudson, 2024
Les incendiaires, Souad Guennoun, Les Éditions de l’Œil, 2000
Maroc, Albert Watson, Rizzoli International Publications, 1998
Saudi Arabia
Assaoudia: XXIe s. = XVe h., Samer Mohdad, Actes Sud, 2005
Kuwait
Kuwait: A Desert on Fire, Sebastião Salgado, Taschen, 2016
Sudan
Sudan: The Forgotten War, Michael von Graffenried, Benteli Verlag, 1995
Darfur/Darfur: Life/War, Multiple photographers, Melcher Media, 2008
Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan, Multiple photographers, powerHouse Books, 2007
Iran
Speak the Wind, Hoda Afshar, MACK, 2021
Days of Blood, Days of Fire, Bahman Jalali, Spector Books, 2020
Unsent Dispatches from the Iranian Revolution, 1978-1979, Akbar Nazemi, Presentation House Gallery, 2005
Turkey
Ara Güler’s Istanbul, Ara Güler, Thames & Hudson, 2009
General Middle East and North Africa
Allah O Akbar: A Journey Through Militant Islam, Abbas, Phaidon Press, 2004
In Whose Name?: The Islamic World after 9/11, Abbas, Thames & Hudson, 2009
Femmes Hors Du Voile, Isabelle Eshraghi, Editions du Chêne, 2008
Aisha, Yumna Al-Arashi, Edition Patrick Frey, 2024
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World, Alexandra Avakian, National Geographic Society, 2008
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Kristen Gresh, MFA Publications (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), 2013
Aftermath: The Fallout of War — America and the Middle East, Carol McCusker (Editor), Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 2016
We Don’t Say Goodbye, Lorenzo Meloni, GOST Books, 2021
Mes Arabies, Samer Mohdad, Actes Sud, 1999
Penumbra, Paulo Nozolino, Scalo, 1996
Inside Sahara, Basil Pao, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002
Middle East Archive, Middle East Archive, 2021
An Archive of Love, Middle East Archive, 2023
An Archive of Love II, Middle East Archive, 2025
In the Name of God, Middle East Archive, 2024
Football, Middle East Archive, 2024
Living Rooms, Middle East Archive, 2025
General War and Conflict
Of Love &a War, Lynsey Addario, Penguin Press, 2018
Fractures Lands, Scott Anderson and Paolo Pellegrin, The New York Times, 2016
Collateral Damage: The Human Face of War, Samantha Appleton, Vincent Cianni, Ashley Gilbertson, and Stephanie Sinclair, Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2012
Hello Camel, Christoph Bangert, Kehrer Verlag, 2016
Voyons, Voyons, Alexandra Boulat, Éditions C.D.P., 2008
People and Places with No Name, Michel Comte, Steidl, 2000
Reza War+Peace: A Photographer’s Journey, Reza Deghati, National Geographic Society, 2008
Troubled Islam: Short Stories from Troubled Societies, Ziyah Gafić, War Photo Limited, 2010
Pictures on the Radio, David Gilkey and Chip Somodevilla, powerHouse Books, 2020
Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, Ron Haviv, Umbrage Editions & TV Books, LLC, 2000
Testament, Chris Hondros, powerHouse Books, 2014
Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer, Peter Howe, Artisan, 2002
Détails obscurs, Roger Lemoyne, Les 400 Coups, 2005
Women and War, Jenny Matthews, University of Michigan Press, 2003
Sleeping With Ghosts: A Life’s Work in Photography, Don McCullin, Aperture, 1996
War: USA.Afghanistan.Iraq, The VII Foundation, de.MO, 2003
Deeds of War, James Nachtwey, Thames & Hudson, 1989
Memoria, James Nachtwey, Contrasto, 2017
Inferno, James Nachtwey, Phaidon Press, 1999
At War, Anja Niedringhaus, Hatje Cantz, 2014
Dies Irae, Paolo Pellegrin, Contrasto, 2011
Event Horizon, Paolo Pellegrin, Marsilio Arte, 2024
This Is War: Witness to Man’s Destruction, Moises Saman, Edizioni Charta, 2004
War is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict, David Shields, powerHouse Books, 2015
Ďábel V Nás [The Devil Within Us], Jan Šibík, PLEJÁDA, 2001
Frontlines, Sean Smith, Random House UK, 2011
Extraordinary Women, Tom Stoddart, ACC Art Books/Iconic Images, 2020
Sorry for the War, Peter van Agtmael, Mass Books, 2020
Imagine: Reflections on Peace, The VII Foundation, Hemeria, 2020
Confrontier, Borders 1989-2012, Kai Wiedenhöfer, Steidl, 2013
Refugee Affairs
I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See, Giles Duley, Saqi Books, 2017
Exodus, Sebastião Salgado, Taschen, 2016
A Sense of Common Ground, Fazal Sheikh, Scalo, 1995
Islam in America
New York Masjid: The Mosques of New York, Jerrilynn Denise Dodds and Edward Grazda, powerHouse Books, 2002
Domes, Arches and Minarets: A History of Islamic-Inspired Buildings in America, Phil Pasquini, Flypaper Press, 2012
Newcomers to Neighbors: Migrants and Refugees from the Middle East in Southern California, Multiple photographers, Biola University Press, 2019
International and Miscellaneous
Return to Mexico, Abbas, W. W. Norton & Company, 1992
A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo, Fred Abrahams, Eric Stover, Gilles Peress, University of California Press, 2002
Eclipse, Zalmaï Ahad, Umbrage Editions, 2002
Somalia: The Invisible Trace (Somalia: el rastro invisible), Pep Bonet, Fonart IB Publishing, 2007
Alexandra Boulat, Alexandra Boulat and Gary Knight, Éditions Nicolas Chaudun, 2010
Odeurs d’Afrique, Thomas Chable, Contretype & La Lettre Volée, 2001
Guinê-Bissau 1990, António Júlio Duarte, Pierre von Kleist Editions, 2023
Sombres, Fouad Elkoury, Marval Éditions, 2002
A Million Shillings: Escape from Somalia, Alixandra Fazzina, Trolley Books, 2010
The Americans, Robert Frank, Scalo, 1995
Open Wound: Chechnya 1994 to 2003, Stanley Greene, Trolley Books, 2003
René Burri Fotografie, Hans-Michael Koetzle, Phaidon Press, 2004
Exiles, Josef Koudelka, Aperture, 2014
Broken Dream: 20 Years of War in Eastern Europe, Antonin Kratochvil, The Monacelli Press, Inc., 1997
Can We Feed Ourselves?: A Focus on Asia, Hiroji Kubota, Magnum Photos, 2000
China, Hiroji Kubota, W. W. Norton & Company, 1985
Mousganistan, Mous Lamrabat, Lannoo Publishers, 2024
Nicaragua, Susan Meiselas, Aperture, 2025
Sarajevo: A Portrait of the Siege, Matthew Naythons, Grand Central Publishing, 1994
The Silence, Gilles Peress, Scalo, 1995
The African Desert, Bernard Plossu, The University of Arizona Press, 1987
Visions of China: Photographs by Marc Riboud 1957-1980, Marc Riboud, Pantheon Books, 1981
The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room, Eugene Richards, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989
iWitness, Tom Stoddart, Trolley Books, 2004
The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar, Eric Stover and Gilles Peress, Scalo, 1998
El Salvador, Larry Towell, DoubleTake (with W. W. Norton & Company), 1997
Dislocations, Alex Webb, Aperture, 2023
The Suffering of Light, Alex Webb, Aperture, 2011
Under a Grudging Sun: Photographs from Haiti Libéré 1986-1988, Alex Webb, Thames & Hudson, 1989
Chili, September 1973, Koen Wessing, Errata Editions, 2010
Endure: Renewal from Ground Zero, The Rockefeller Foundation, 2001
The following text-based books deal with photography and photojournalism.
Photography in the Diaspora
Diaspora from the Middle East and North Africa: Communities, Architecture, Neighborhoods, Ahmed bin Shabib and Rashid bin Shabib (Editors), Lars Müller Publishers, 2019
Gaza: A Legacy of Occupation – A Photographer’s Journey, Dick Doughty and Mohammed El Aydi, Kumarian Press, 1995
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, Edward Said, Pantheon Books, 1986
The Palestinians: Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day, Elias Sanbar, Éditions Hazan, 2014
Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope, Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp (Editors), The American University in Cairo Press/Terreform, 2021
Photography in Historical Contexts
From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Ariella Azoulay, Pluto Press, 2011
Palestine: Memories of 1948, Photographs of Jerusalem, Chris Conti and Altair Alcântara, Hesperus Press, 2019
Photography in War and Conflict
It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War, Lynsey Addario, Penguin Books, 2016
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence, Susie Linfield, University of Chicago Press, 2010
Mediations, Susan Meiselas, Damiani, 2018
Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe, and War, John Taylor, Manchester University Press, 1998
Conversations on Conflict Photography, Lauren Walsh, Routledge, 2019
Theory of Photography
The Civil Contract of Photography, Ariella Azoulay, Zone Books, 2008
Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography, Ariella Azoulay, Verso, 2024
On Photography, Susan Sontag, First Anchor Books, 1990 Ed.
Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag, Picador, 2003 Ed.