Max Rodenbeck

Max Rodenbeck is The Economist’s Mideast Correspondent. He is based in Cairo. (May 2008)

From the Review

May 15, 2008: The Arab Spring, and After

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright

January 17, 2008: An American in Iran

September 27, 2007: 'Lebanon's Agony' (letter)

June 28, 2007: Lebanon's Agony

Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East by Nicholas Blanford

Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton

Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam Among Palestinians in Lebanon by Bernard Rougier, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh

Hizbullah: The Story from Within by Naim Qassem

November 30, 2006: How Terrible Is It?

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (September 2002)

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (March 2006)

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Louise Richardson

Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism by Charles Peña

Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them by John Mueller

September 21, 2006: War Within War

August 10, 2006: The Time of the Shia

Reaching for Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World by Yitzhak Nakash

The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr

March 9, 2006: Their Master's Voice

Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden edited and with an introductionby Bruce Lawrence, translated from the Arabic by James Howarth

The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader by Peter L. Bergen

August 11, 2005: The Truth About Jihad

Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal

Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy

The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel,translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh

Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality and Modernity by Faisal Devji

Understanding Terror Networks by Marc Sageman

April 28, 2005: A New Lebanon?

February 10, 2005: 'Unloved in Arabia' (letter)

October 21, 2004: Unloved in Arabia

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties by Craig Unger

Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent by Mamoun Fandy

Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia by Thomas Lippman

Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer

Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism by Dore Gold

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Saudi Arabia by Colin Wells

Can Saudi Arabia Reform Itself? a report by the International Crisis Group

April 29, 2004: Islam Confronts Its Demons

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb, translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Ann Reid

Shaping the Current Islamic Reformation edited by B.A. Roberson

Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition by Yohanan Friedmann

Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World by Carl W. Ernst

The Future of Political Islam by Graham E. Fuller

Islam and Democracy in the Middle East edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Daniel Brumberg

Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out edited by Ibn Warraq

Progressive Muslims on Justice, Gender, and Pluralism edited by Omid Safi

Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists by Raymond William Baker

August 14, 2003: The Occupation

July 3, 2003: Bohemia in Baghdad

November 16, 2000: Witch Hunt in Egypt