Kirjahaku

Zenobia was a 3rd century Palmyrene queen who led a revolt against the Romans and quashed the regional Roman rule. Eventually defeated by the Emperor Aurelian in 274, Zenobia's life was a story of remarkable drama and achievement. In this book, Yasmine Zahran explores the blurred line between the woman and the myth, and brings her world and time vividly to life through a first-person narrative.

Hira, the centre of the Lakhmid kingdom, was where the early Arabic alphabet was standardised. In The Lakhmids of Hira, Yasmine Zahran brings her lively yet informed style to bear on a hitherto unjustly neglected dynasty of Arabia's history. Introduced by Dr Robert Hoyland, with a chronology and a detailed bibliography, The Lakhmids of Hira is a required addition to the shelves of any Arabist or Middle East historian.