King Farouk
Finally – an authoritative, stimulating history of the modern Middle East
Ranging from Sudan to Azerbaijan, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s balanced account provides us with the necessary background to form our own views of what’s happening in the region
Gore blimey
Gore Vidal has form as a crime writer. In the early 1950s, when his sympathetic literary treatment of homosexuality had…
Myths of the modern-day pharoahs
Jonathan Rugman is foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News.
High life
I remember it well. It was August 1952, and I was dining with my parents on the Palm Beach casino’s…
