Any good leftist books/essays on Middle East

[SmirkerOfTheWorld]

I'm currently working as a journalist focusing on the middle east and I was hoping to see if anyone could recommend some good stuff examining the politics of the Middle East from a left/marxist/anarchist perspective?

[Zoroaster]

The Marxist Internet Archive has an entire section dedicated to struggles and writings about Africa, Egypt and Iran.

[radiocaroline]

Naom Chomsky did some good stuff in relation to the US/west and the Middle East my friend.. E.g. "Power and Terror"

[Creative Destruction]

Edward Said's Orientalism is a standard.

[The Jay]

It isn't explicitly 'left' but Arab Spring, Libyan Winter by Vijay Prashad is a very good read.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

The Palestinian Revolutionary Communist League had some good material, but most of it is unfortunately not available in English. The Spartacist League published an article - "The Birth of the Zionist State" - that I found quite interesting. Hal Draper's "Israel's Arab Minority" is an interesting account, although Draper himself had some odd positions (including support for Israel in 1948).