• Greenwich and the London River

    The year 2012 is a momentous one for Great Britain: London hosts the Olympic Games and the Queen celebrates her Diamond Jubilee. Greenwich with its long royal associations has been granted Royal Borough status and is the venue of many Olympic events…

  • British Olympic Heroes – The Best of British Gold Medallists

    Here is the perfect guide to Britain’s greatest athletes of the modern Olympics – eminently readable, fun, fact-filled and fully illustrated, reprinted and updated for London 2012, as Olympic fever grips the country…

  • The Nabataeans: A Brief History of Petra and Madain Saleh

    The Nabataeans were ancient peoples of Arabia, whose civilization was headquartered at Petra, ‘the rose red city half as old as time’. Their loosely controlled trading network covered the borderland between Syria and Arabia, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea…

  • Wings Over Arabia

    On 2 June 2006, a team of three gliders, one chase plane, support crew and all-terrain vehicles gathered at a fiercely hot and dusty airfield 50 kilometres outside Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. The pilots, two Saudi princes and the British ex-Special Forces officer who had trained them on the Stemme gliders to be flown, were about to make gliding history…

  • The World of the Tahawy Bedouin and their Pure-Bred Arabian Horses

    As breeders of Arabian horses for more than 35 years, Bernd and Kirsten Radtke became involved with the Tahawy in early 1980 when Sheikh Soliman Abd el Hamid Eliwa el Tahawy approached them, to assist with laying down a written record and stud book of his forefather’s horses. His aim – and that of the authors – was to redress the past injustice of the pure-bred Tahawy lines going unrecognized…

WELCOME TO MEDINA PUBLISHING

Medina, the Arabic word for town, resonates for us on two levels. Our offices are based on the Isle of Wight, close by the Medina River which splits the northern part of this diamond-shaped garden island – as reflected in our logo. But, more significantly, our field of publishing expertise lies in Arab and Islamic affairs, particularly in the Gulf region – for which the Holy City of Medina is a focal point. Recent publications and consultancy services have established MPL’s strong reputation in the equestrian world.

Established in 2009, Medina’s founders have strong links in the UK and the Middle East.

Our Directors are:

Peter Harrigan, a writer and commissioning editor with over 30 years’ experience living, working and travelling in the Gulf region. He is a regular contributor to UK- and Saudi-based magazines.

Kitty Carruthers, who handles print, production, design and editorial has 35 years’ experience in the publishing industry with clients ranging from royalty and governments to first-time authors.

Jonathan Edwards MBE, MSc, Finance Director.

The watchwords of the directors are: quality and reliability.

The company has strong links and clients in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Jordan, and we are committed to producing high-quality books of general as well as specific interest.

Medina Publishing is also experienced in exhibition and display work, and would be happy to quote for large-format, high-quality panels, banners, posters, fine art reproduction, postcards and all your exhibition-associated requirements.