I feel a little*embarrassed by my constant linking to*Geographical*magazine’s book reviews, but they point to books, particularly British books, that*I otherwise hadn’t heard of—such as*Dan Smith’s*State of the Middle East Atlas (New Internationalist, November 2015),*the third edition of which was just published. From Laura Cole’s review: “[T]he atlas has been revised with new analyses*of the region since the Arab Spring began in 2011 as well as the latest on the Israel-Palestine conflict, the refugee crisis and foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria.*Smith, cartographer and director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, has kept up with the compelling changes and complicated*dynamics of Middle Eastern politics.” Buy at Amazon U.K.أكثر...