Upcoming Reviews
Disruptions, Taysir Batniji, Loose Joints, 2024
Dying to Exist, Sakir Khader, 550BC, 2024
Perfect Peace, Kai Wiedenhofer, Steidl, 2002
The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan, Fazal Sheikh, Scalo, 1998
Phantom Home, Ahlam Shalabi, Hatje Cantz, 2013
Yalla Habibi: Living with War in Aleppo, Hosam Katan, Kehrer Verlag, 2017
Palestine/Israel Photography
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
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
Anchor in the Landscape, Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez, MACK BOOKS, 2024
La Danse Des Pierres: Les Territoires Occupés Par l’armée Israélienne, Jean-Claude Coutausse, Editions Denoël, 1990
‘Om (Mother), Barbara Debeuckelaere, The Eriskay Connection, 2024
The Palestinians, Jonathan Dimbleby, Quartet Books Limited, 1979
Palestine: L’envers du Miroir, Fouad Elkoury, Editions Hazan, 1996
HABIBI, Antonio Faccilongo, FotoEvidence, 2020
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
Gaza Photo Album, Kent Klich, Umbrage Editions, 2010
Gaza Works, Kent Klich, Hasselblad Foundation/Koenig Books, 2017
Wall – Israeli and Palestinian Landscape 2008-2012, Josef Koudelka, Aperture, 2013
The Resolution of the Suspect, Miki Kratsman, Radius Books, 2016
Fallen Empires, Shai Kremer, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2011
Visions: Palestine, Andrea Kündig, Kehrer Verlag, 2004
From the Land of Miracles, Wendy Sue Lamm, Contrasto, 2005
Ordinary Lives, Rania Mattar, Quantuck Lane Press, 2009
Time and Remains of Palestine, James Morris, Kehrer Verlag, 2016
Palestinians: Life Under Occupation, Nancy Murray, The Middle East Justice Network, 1991
Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians, Judah Passow, Halban Publishers, 2008
Palestine Existences Resistances, Ferrari Rogerio, Clandestin, 2008
Phantom Home, Ahlam Shalabi, Hatje Cantz, 2013
The Erasure Trilogy, Fazal Sheikh, Steidl, 2015
Speak Palestine, Speak Again, Martin A. Sugarman, Sugarman Productions, 1997 (Review)
Apartheid is a Crime (2nd Edition): Portraits of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, Mats Svensson, Cune Press, 2020
No Man’s Land, Larry Towell, Chris Boot Ltd., 2005
Then Palestine, Larry Towell, Aperture, 1998
NAKBA_DAY, Adrien Vautier, Editions Nuit Noire, 2018
The Book of Destruction, Kai Wiedenhofer, Steidl, 2010
Perfect Peace, Kai Wiedenhofer, Steidl, 2002
Wall, Kai Wiedenhofer, Steidl, 2007
Lebanon Photography
On War and Love (De La Guerre et de L’Amour), Fouad Elkoury, Editions Intervalles, 2007 (Review)
Double Blind: War in Lebanon 2006, Paolo Pellegrin and Scott Anderson, Trolley Books, 2007
Syria Photography
Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War, Kevin Bubriski, powerHouse Books, 2018
Yalla Habibi: Living with War in Aleppo, Hosam Katan, Kehrer Verlag, 2017
Afghanistan Photography
Arms Against Fury: Magnum Photographers in Afghanistan, Ed. Robert Dannin, powerHouse Books, 2002
Kings of Afghanistan, Pieter-Jan De Pue, Lannoo Publishers, 2019
Inshallah, Dima Gavrysh, Kehrer Verlag, 2015
Afghanistan: Broken Promise, Moises Saman, Charta, 2007
The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan, Fazal Sheikh, Scalo, 1998
Iraq Photography
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
Egypt Photography
Fils de roi, portraits d’ Egypte (French Edition), Denis Dailleux, Gallimard, 2008
Suite Égyptienne, Fouad Elkoury, Actes Sud, 1999
Libya Photography
Libyan Sugar, Michael Christopher Brown, Twin Palm Publishers, 2016
Yemen Photography
I Don’t Recognize Me In The Shadows, Thana Faroq, Lecturis, 2020
General Middle East and North Africa Photography
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Kristen Gresh, MFA Publications (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), 2013
Middle East Archive, Middle East Archive, 2021
An Archive of Love, Middle East Archive, 2023
In the Name of God, Middle East Archive, 2024
Football, Middle East Archive, 2024
General Conflict Photography
Of Love & War, Lynsey Addario, Penguin Press, 2018
Fractures Lands, Scott Anderson and Paolo Pellegrin, The New York Times, 2016
Hello Camel, Christoph Bangert, Kehrer Verlag, 2016
Reza War + Peace, Reza Deghati, National Geographic Society, 2008
Testament, Chris Hondros, powerHouse Books, 2014
Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer, Peter Howe, Artisan, 2002
Deeds of War, James Nachtwey, Thames and Hudson Inc., 1989
Inferno, James Nachtwey, Phaidon Press, 1999
Dies Irae, Paolo Pellegrin, Contrasto, 2011
Telling the World, Paolo Pellegrin, Marsilio Arte, 2024
This Is War: Witness of Man’s Destruction, Moises Saman, Charta, 2004
War is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict, David Shields, powerHouse Books, 2015
Refugee Affairs Photography
I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See, Giles Duley, Saqi Books, 2017
Islam in America Photography
New York Masjid: The Mosques Of New York, Jerrilynn Denise Dodds and Edward Grazda, powerHouse Books, 2002
Newcomers to Neighbors: Migrants and Refugees from the Middle East in Southern California, Biola University, 2019
Miscellaneous
El Salvador, Larry Towell, W W Norton & Co., 1997
The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room, Eugene Richards, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995
Endure: Renewal from Ground Zero, Jurek Wajdowicz et al., The Rockefeller Foundation, 2001
The following books or compilations are not true photobooks but deal with photography and photojournalism to varying degrees and from various angles.
Photography in the Diaspora
Diaspora from the Middle East and North Africa: Communities, Architecture, Neighborhoods, Eds. Ahmed bin Shabib and Rashid bin Shabib, 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, Edward Said, Pantheon Books, 1986
Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope, Eds. Michael Sorkin and Dean Sharp, 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 Theory
The Civil Contract of Photography, Ariella Azoulay, Zone Books, 2008
On Photography, Susan Sontag, First Anchor Books, 1990 Ed.
Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag, Picador, 2003 Ed.
Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe, and War, John Taylor, Manchester University Press, 1998
Conversations on Conflict Photography, Lauren Walsh, Routledge, 2019