Start with high-confidence arab & middle eastern lives books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Twenty Years
Sune Engel Rasmussen
A Stranger in Your Own City
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Three Worlds
Avi Shlaim
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi
A Vision of Yemen
Alan Verskin
The Miracle of the Kurds
Stephen Mansfield
The Final Prophet
Mohammad Elshinawy
It's Not What You Think
Sabeeha Rehman
Perfect Victims
Mohammed El-Kurd
