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Charles Huber

Charles Huber is a French-Alsatian geographer who achieved fame as one of the 19th century’s great Arabian explorers. On his two heroic journeys between 1880 and 1884, he pioneered the scientific mapping of inland Arabia and made some of the earliest records of...

The Afghanistan File

The Afghanistan File, written by the former head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence, tells the story of his Department’s involvement in Afghanistan from the time of the Soviet invasion in 1979 to Nine Eleven 2001. It begins with the backing given by Saudi Arabia to the...

The Imam, The Pasha & The Englishman

The dramatic encounter between Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha, Ottoman governor of Egypt, and his vanquished Saudi foe, Imam ‘Abd Allah, in Cairo in November 1818 marks the symbolic end of the First Saudi State. ‘Abd Allah was in transit to public execution in Istanbul, the...

Across Arabia

A vivid portrait of the early days of Saudi Arabia from the unique perspective of the first Western woman to travel openly across Saudi Arabia as a non-Muslim. At the end of March 1937, Geraldine Rendel found she had achieved a trio of unintended distinctions....

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The Afghanistan File

‘HRH Prince Turki is wise, thoughtful and committed to peace and progress in the Middle East. We are fortunate that he has written this memoir of his remarkable career.’

Sir Malcolm Rifkind – UK Minister of Defence and Foreign Secretary, 1992 – 97

The Afghanistan File, written by the former head of Saudi Arabian
Intelligence, tells the story of his department’s involvement in Afghanistan, from the time of the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the attacks on September 11, 2001. It begins with the backing given by Saudi Arabia to the Mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet occupation, and moves on to the fruitless initiatives to broker peace among the Mujahideen factions after the Soviet withdrawal, the rise to power of the Taliban and the shelter the Taliban gave
to Osama Bin Laden.

Prince Turki explains that the nihilistic, apparently pointless
terrorism that has been seen in the Middle East in the last twenty years had its origins in Afghanistan with Osama Bin Laden’s deluded belief that he had helped defeat the Russians. There is no evidence that he ever fought them at all. Soon after the attacks on 9/11, Saudi Arabia discovered that it had a homegrown terrorist problem involving some of the returnees from Afghanistan. Many of the huge changes that have taken place in the Kingdom since have stemmed from the campaign to tackle this.

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Forthcoming / New Releases

Julius Euting: Diary of a Journey through Inner Arabia, 1883–1884

Epigraphist, artist, keen hiker, nature-lover and traveller, the German scholar Julius Euting (1839–1913) was one

£120.00

Lorimer: His Gazetteer and Britain's Pursuit of Knowledge

A fascinating exploration of the renowned Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, a cornerstone source that

£30.00

The Imam, the Pasha & the Englishman: The Ordeal of Abd Allah ibn Saud, Cairo 1818 by Michael Crawford

The dramatic encounter between Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha, Ottoman governor of Egypt, and his vanquished Saudi

£25.00

Sea of Pearls - The History of Pearl Fishing in Bahrain and the Gulf

The history of pearling is inextricably linked to the history of Bahrain, the strategically-located Gulf

£45.00

Charles Huber

New light is shed on the dates and itinerary of Huber’s first Arabian journey, an

£30.00

The Afghanistan File

The Afghanistan File, written by the former head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence, tells the story

£20.00

Prison Time in Sana'a

Prison Time in Sana’a tells the story of Dr Abdulkader Al-Guneid’s harrowing experience inside jail

£20.00

Across Arabia: Three Weeks in 1937

At the end of March 1937, Geraldine Rendel found she had achieved a trio of

£25.00