North Africa

12/11/2025

All Strangers are Kin—Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World: Zora O’Neill

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, 336 pages At a time when media coverage of the Middle East and North Africa is full of images of war, destruction and repression, and Arabic is increasingly associated with terrorists, Zora O’Neill’s book provides another… Continue reading
13/10/2025

The Olive Route—A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean: Carol Drinkwater

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, 448 pages. Carol Drinkwater is passionate about the olive tree—she has an olive grove in Provence—and this book is about her search for its history around the Mediterranean through Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Malta, Tunisia,… Continue reading