Susan Sarandon - "Anyone who cares about the war in Iraq must read this book."

In this book Kassir attacks both western double standards and islamic fundamentalism, calling on Arabs to reclaim their own identity for themselves. He was assassinated in Beirut in 2005.

Edward Said, author of outstanding work Orientalism, recounts in his autobiography his early life as a boy in the Middle East, a boy with a profoundly English first name and a typically Arab surname.

This book does not specifically focus on the Middle East but is an outstanding introduction to world history and the extremely bloody twentieth century.

"There is little doubt that The Clash of Fundamentalisms is an angry but valuable response to the events that took place in the US on September 11, 2001." Jerry Brotton (Amazon review.)

"Intensely lyrical … Much of this beautifully written and evocative book is a lamentation on the conditions of exile."Guardian

Edward Said described Ahdaf Soueif as "one of the most extraordinary chroniclers of sexual politics now writing". A story of love and war, sexuality and politics in modern Egypt and England.

The story of a British citizen, Moazzam Begg, who was imprisoned without charge in Guantanamo Bay until his release in 2005. A fight against injustice and illegal detention.