Ilan Pappé, born in Haifa in 1954, is one of the world’s leading historians of the Middle East. Among his recent works, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two ...

Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, self-exiled to London after a long period of teaching at the University of Haifa, deals here with what he defines as a reflection on “the causes ...

Agha Soltani, a retired primary school teacher and Hakimè, his strange, beautiful and stubbornly silent little granddaughter, are in flight from a devastating earthquake that destroyed the city of Bam ...

Bijan Zarmandili was born in Teheran. He is a journalist specialised in Middle East’s Politics. His publications include: Documenti di un dirottamento (Eri, 1988), La grande Casa di Minirrieh and ...

The Sottosopra building is inhabited by rich and poor. Living on the piano nobile is Mr. Johnson, an elderly American violinist whose reserved nature led him to abandon a successful career. ...