Start with high-confidence arab & middle eastern lives books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Twenty Years
Sune Engel Rasmussen
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T.E. Lawrence
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 Afghans
Åsne Seierstad
The Final Prophet
Mohammad Elshinawy
It's Not What You Think
Sabeeha Rehman
Perfect Victims
Mohammed El-Kurd
