founder iradj bagherzade country of origin united kingdom headquarters location london and new york city distribution macmillan publishers palgrave macmillan nonfiction topics art biography geography history international relations middle east philosophy politics international relations religion travel visual culture imprints tauris parke paperbacks tauris academic studies philip wilson publishers official website ibtauris.com i.b. tauris usually typeset as i.b.tauris is an independent publishing house with offices in london and new york city . history edit i.b.tauris was founded in 1983 . its declared strategy was to fill the perceived gap between trade publishing houses and university presses that is to publish serious but accessible works on international politics and culture . 1 the company specialised in its early days on publishing on the middle east . the publisher now specialises in non fiction books on art history politics and international relations the middle east and islamic world generally religion geography and environment and visual culture including film photography and contemporary art . its books are aimed primarily at the specialist market including academics and students . however because of strong current interest in its preferred topics the company also sells to a general audience . 2 in the period following the september 11 attacks for example its publication taliban by ahmed rashid is reported to have sold nearly 500 000 copies in english worldwide with 27 licensed editions internationally . 3 its new york offices are co located with those of palgrave macmillan which functions as the company s north american distributor . tauris parke paperbacks is a paperback imprint of the firm that concentrates on travel writing popular history and biography . in may 2011 the company acquired the fine arts publisher philip wilson publishers after handling its sales marketing and distribution for several years . 4 in june 2013 the company announced an agreement with the american university in cairo press aucp under which i.b. tauris distributes all aucp publications worldwide outside of north america and egypt . the two publishing houses also embarked on a series of international co publications . this move was reportedly in line with an i.b.tauris strategy to be the dominant player in international middle east studies publishing . 5 references edit zeitchik steven 7 january 2002 . mideast studies house hits its stride . publishers weekly . reed business information . archived from the original on 2008 07 24 . retrieved 23 september 2009 . bagherzade iradj ; the book depository . publisher of the week ib tauris . retrieved 23 september 2009 . mcdonnell jonathan 6 october 2004 . hardlines in the headlines . the bookseller . retrieved 23 september 2009 . page benedicte 9 may 2011 . i b tauris buys pwp . the bookseller . retrieved 17 june 2011 . bookseller staff 26 june 2013 . i b tauris links with aucp . the bookseller . retrieved 4 june 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title i.b. tauris & oldid 743752746 categories book publishing companies of the united kingdompublishing companies established in 1983british companies established in 1983 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais srpskohrvatski edit links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 02 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view