Start with high-confidence middle east travel books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
In Xanadu
William Dalrymple
Unexpected Light, an
Jason Elliot
City of Gold
Jim Krane
Eastward to Tartary
Robert D. Kaplan
Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
Tony Horwitz
Yemen Chronicle
Steven C. Caton
Yemen
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Qatar
Allen J. Fromherz, Allen James Fromherz
City of Lies
Ramita Navai
The Road to Mecca
Muhammad Asad
It's Not What You Think
Sabeeha Rehman
