The most popular North Africa books of 2026

The Days

Taha Hussein

Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt Mourning Rites in the Pharaonic Period

Maria Rosa Valdesogo

Lighting the Torch The Tunisian Campaign and Forging an Allied Way of War 1942-43

Sam Wallace

Kadesh 1274 BC Egypt Attempts to Take Syria

Anthony Spalinger

Egyptian Sculpture Archaic to Saite. from the Petrie Collection

Anthea Page

Apedemak

Louis Zabkar

Lisa in Egypt About a Ten-Year-Old Girl Who Went to an Archaeological Excavation in Egypt

Lisa Seldenthuis

The Gods Themselves

Shawn Ramsey, Shawn D. Ramsey

The French Médersa Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa

Samuel D. Anderson

The Volcanic and Geothermal Heritage of Morocco

Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World A Comparative History of Aromatics, Cosmetics and Adornment, from the Mediterranean to the China Seas

Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian

Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria French-colonial Policy, Rabbis and Halachic Writing

Vered Sakal

TasteAtlas' 100 Legendary Restaurants and Their Iconic Dishes

TasteAtlas

The Politics of Collaboration Establishing the French Protectorate in Morocco, 1912-1927

William A. Hoisington

Counterrevolution in Egypt Sisi's New Republic

Hossam el-Hamalawy

Highlights of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo

Zahi Hawass

Afrikakorps at War, 1941-43

Simon Forty, George Forty

North Africa, 1942 The Turning Point

Philip Jowett

Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Pharaonic Teachings for Modern Living

Trevor Naylor

Fractional Calculus and Applications ICFCA 2024, Sousse, Tunisia, December 26–30

Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf, Omar Naifar, Mohamed Ali Hammami

Race and Slavery in the Middle East

Pagan Portals - Osiris Raising the Djed Pillar

Olivia Church

Qaddafi

Ronald Bruce St John

Cultural Brokerage in Premodern Islamic Societies

Uriel Simonsohn, Luke Yarbrough, Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Luke Yarbrough