Garnet Publishing is an independent publishing company specializing in trade books, with special interest in the Middle East. We publish in the fields of architecture, art, Fiction, cookery and travel, and also in the areas of culture, heritage and history of the Middle East. Founded in 1973, Ithaca Press is a leading English-language publisher of academic books devoted to the Middle East Studies. Its authors are academic experts drawn from all over the world and the company has links with many major universities in the UK, the USA and Europe that have departments or faculties with Middle Eastern and Arab studies programmes. Ithaca Press is an imprint of Garnet Publishing Limited.