Upcoming Reviews
Disruptions, Taysir Batniji, Loose Joints, 2024
Gaza Photo Album, Kent Klich, Journal, 2009
Dying to Exist, Sakir Khader, 550BC, 2024
Perfect Peace, Kai Wiedenhöfer, Steidl, 2002
The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan, Fazal Sheikh, Scalo, 1998
Phantom Home, Ahlam Shalabi, Hatje Cantz, 2013
Palestine
Haraka Baraka, Alex Adetiba and Charlie Davis (Editors), SkatePal, 2024
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, 2, 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
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
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
Time and Remains of Palestine, James Morris, Kehrer Verlag, 2015
Palestinians: Life Under Occupation, Nancy Murray, The Middle East Justice Network, 1991
Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians, Judah Passow, Halban Publishers, 2008
West Bank, Sophie Ristelhueber, Thames & Hudson, 2005
Palestine Existences-Resistances, Rogério Ferrari, Éditions le passager clandestin, 2008
Unresolved, Meinrad Schade, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018
Phantom Home, Ahlam Shalabi, Hatje Cantz, 2013
The Erasure Trilogy, Fazal Sheikh, Steidl, 2015
Ground, Bruno Stevens, Lannoo Publishers, 2011
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
Lebanon
Back To Beirut, Gabriele Basilico, Contrasto, 2023
God Cried, Tony Clifton and Catherine Leroy, Quartet Books, 1983
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)
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
Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War, Kevin Bubriski, powerHouse Books, 2018
Yalla Habibi: Living with War in Aleppo, Hosam Katan, Kehrer Verlag, 2017 (Review)
Afghanistan
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
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, Frédéric Lemercier, First Second, 2009
Afghanistan: Paradise Lost, Roland Michaud and Sabrina Michaud, Thames & Hudson, 1980
Afghanistan: Broken Promise, Moises Saman, Edizioni Charta, 2007
The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan, Fazal Sheikh, Scalo, 1998
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
Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq, Michael Kamber, University of Texas Press, 2013
Baghdad: Truth Lies Within, Bruno Stevens, Ludion, 2004
Egypt
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
Egypt: Reflections on Continuity, Richard Pare, Timken Publishers, Inc., 1990
Suite Égyptienne, Fouad Elkoury, Actes Sud, 1999
Embed in Egypt: A Story Without a Beginning, Emine Gozde Sevim, Kehrer Verlag, 2016
Libya
Libyan Sugar, Michael Christopher Brown, Twin Palm Publishers, 2016
Algeria
Algeria, Dirk Alvermann, Steidl, 2011
A Little Louder, Abdo Shanan, Editorial RM, 2022
Inside Algeria, Michael von Graffenried, Aperture, 1998
Yemen
I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows, Thana Faroq, Lecturis, 2020
Photography from Yemen, Ibi Ibrahim and Lizzy Vartanian (Editors), Makan Press, 2024
Morocco
Essaouira, Bruno Barbey, Editions du Chêne, 2001
La salle de classe, Hicham Benohoud, Les Éditions de l’Œil, 2001
La salle de classe, Hicham Benohoud, Loose Joints, 2025
Look Up to the Moon, John Cohen, Steidl, 2019
Morocco, Harry Gruyaert, Thames & Hudson, 2024
General Middle East and North Africa
Aisha, Yumna Al-Arashi, Edition Patrick Frey, 2024
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
Living Rooms, Middle East Archive, 2025
General War and Conflict
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
People and Places with No Name, Michel Comte, Steidl, 2000
Reza War+Peace: A Photographer’s Journey, Reza Deghati, National Geographic Society, 2008
Pictures on the Radio, David Gilkey and Chip Somodevilla, powerHouse Books, 2020
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
Sleeping With Ghosts: A Life’s Work in Photography, Don McCullin, Aperture, 1996
Deeds of War, James Nachtwey, Thames & Hudson, 1989
Memoria, James Nachtwey, Contrasto, 2017
Inferno, James Nachtwey, Phaidon Press, 1999
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
Sorry for the War, Peter van Agtmael, Mass Books, 2020
Imagine: Reflections on Peace, The VII Foundation, Hemeria, 2020
Refugee Affairs
I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See, Giles Duley, Saqi Books, 2017
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, Biola University Press, 2019
Miscellaneous
Guinê-Bissau 1990, António Júlio Duarte, Pierre von Kleist Editions, 2023
Sombres, Fouad Elkoury, Marval Éditions, 2002
René Burri Fotografie, Hans-Michael Koetzle, Phaidon Press, 2004
Exiles, Josef Koudelka, Aperture, 2014
Nicaragua, Susan Meiselas, Aperture, 2025
The Knife and Gun Club: Scenes from an Emergency Room, Eugene Richards, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989
The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar, Eric Stover and Gilles Peress, Scalo, 1998
El Salvador, Larry Towell, DoubleTake (with W. W. Norton & Company), 1997
Endure: Renewal from Ground Zero, The Rockefeller Foundation, 2001
The following books or compilations are not 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, 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, 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
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.