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Middle Eastern Literature & Non-Fiction

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1

The Ardent Swarm

283 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

2

Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

by Nadia Wassef

148 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

3

I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?: A Memoir

by Mortada Gzar

55 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

4

The Disoriented

by Amin Maalouf

243 members

14 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

5

Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way

by Amin Maalouf

138 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

6

Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran

by Azadeh Moaveni

251 members

40 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, arwa-fm

7

The Frightened Ones

by Dima Wannous

39 members

1 review

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

8

The Thirty Names of Night

by Zeyn Joukhadar

362 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

9

The Map of Salt and Stars

by Zeyn Joukhadar

852 members

40 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

10

by Nazanine Hozar

185 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

11

Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967

by William B. Quandt

81 members

½ 3.3

Member: Bretzky1

12

A Pure Heart: A Novel

by Rajia Hassib

107 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

13

As Though She Were Sleeping

by Elias Khoury

85 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

14

Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol

by Elias Khoury

39 members

3

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

15

by Elias Khoury

42 members

1 review

½ 2.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

16

The Ottoman Cities of Lebanon: Historical Legacy and Identity in the Modern Middle East (Library of Middle East History)

by James A. Reilly

5 members

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

17

Leg Over Leg, Volume Two

by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyak

24 members

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

18

Leg over Leg: Volume Three (Library of Arabic Literature)

by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyak

17 members

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

19

Other Lives (Interlink World Fiction)

by Iman Humaydan

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

20

The Penguin's Song

by Hassan Daoud

21 members

½ 3.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

21

The Twenty-Ninth Year

52 members

1 review

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

22

The Stone of Laughter

by Hoda Barakat

104 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

23

Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran

by Elaine Sciolino

293 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

24

Disciples Of Passion

by Hoda Barakat

21 members

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

25

by Amin Maalouf

1,532 members

34 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

26

Leo the African

by Amin Maalouf

1,620 members

36 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

27

Balthasar's Odyssey

by Amin Maalouf

801 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

28

38 members

1 review

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

29

Damascus Nights

by Rafik Schami

370 members

6 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

30

Women of Sand and Myrrh

by Hanan Al-Shaykh

539 members

11 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

31

by Hanan Al-Shaykh

179 members

3 reviews

3.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

32

Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World

by Samuel Shimon

96 members

23 reviews

3.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

33

I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman

by Joumana Haddad

83 members

1 review

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

34

The Occasional Virgin

by Hanan Al-Shaykh

43 members

1 review

2

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

35

Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs

75 members

½ 3.3

Member: Bretzky1

36

Silence Is a Sense

by Layla AlAmmar

58 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

37

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

200 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

38

Printed in Beirut

by Jabbour Douaihy

13 members

2 reviews

5

2 Members: kara.shamy, arwa-fm

39

Liberate and Leave: Fatal Flaws in the Early Strategy for Postwar Iraq

10 members

1 review

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

40

Hezbollah: a Short History

by Augustus Richard Norton

209 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

41

The Arsonists' City

198 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

42

Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

by Michael R. Gordon

860 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

43

Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said

by Timothy Brennan

82 members

1 review

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

44

A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

by Ian J. Bickerton

70 members

½ 3.4

Member: Bretzky1

45

The Punishment (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

by Tahar Ben Jelloun

26 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

46

Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA

by Morten Storm

133 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

47

Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)

by Yehuda Lukacs

3 members

3

Member: Bretzky1

48

by Adania Shibli

563 members

23 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

49

Israel / Palestine

58 members

1 review

4

Member: Bretzky1

50

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

by Rashid Khalidi

950 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

51

Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

by Peter L. Bergen

582 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

52

The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War

by Delphine Minoui

219 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

53

Inheriting the Holy Land: An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East

by Jennifer Miller

40 members

½ 3.3

Member: Bretzky1

54

Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002

by Charles Enderlin

35 members

4

Member: Bretzky1

55

Gaza: A History (Comparative Politics and International Studies)

by Jean-Pierre Filiu

75 members

1 review

½ 2.5

Member: Bretzky1

56

The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq

by Kenneth M. Pollack

230 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

57

The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower

235 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

58

Elsewhere, Home

by Leila Aboulela

81 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

59

In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

by Tariq Ramadan

228 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

60

Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel

by Dominique Eddé

61 members

Member: kara.shamy

61

When Reagan Sent In the Marines: The Invasion of Lebanon

by Patrick J. Sloyan

24 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

62

Winds of Change: The Future of Democracy in Iran

by Reza Pahlavi

14 members

3

Member: Bretzky1

63

The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge

67 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Bretzky1

64

Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began

by Bruce Riedel

13 members

Member: kara.shamy

65

The Clarion of Syria: A Patriot's Call against the Civil War of 1860

by Butrus Al-Bustani

7 members

4

Member: kara.shamy

66

Strangers No More: Syrians in the United States, 1880-1900

by Linda K. Jacobs

2 members

Member: kara.shamy

67

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

1,074 members

48 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

68

Death Is Hard Work

by Khālid Khalīfah

277 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

69

Mama Hissa's Mice

by Saud Alsanousi

53 members

2 reviews

3.1

Member: kara.shamy

70

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

by Christy Lefteri

1,666 members

52 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

71

A Woman Is No Man

1,653 members

68 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

72

Correspondents: A Novel

65 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: kara.shamy

73

by Isabella Hammad

428 members

15 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

74

by Elias Khoury

183 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

75

The Journey of Little Gandhi

by Elias Khoury

28 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: kara.shamy

76

Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam

by Elias Khoury

77 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: kara.shamy

77

by Elias Khoury

84 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

78

Little Mountain

by Elias Khoury

63 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

79

SYRIA: Descent Into the Abyss

8 members

Member: kara.shamy

80

Leg over Leg, Volume One

by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyak

51 members

Member: kara.shamy

81

Leg over Leg: Volume Four (Library of Arabic Literature)

by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyak

14 members

Member: kara.shamy

82

636 members

26 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

83

by Najwa Barakat

20 members

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

84

The Gardens of Light

by Amin Maalouf

547 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

85

Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century

by Amin Maalouf

252 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

86

The Crusades through Arab Eyes

by Amin Maalouf

2,364 members

37 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

87

by Amin Maalouf

302 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

88

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

by Anthony Shadid

380 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

89

Kite (The French List)

by Dominique Edde

14 members

Member: kara.shamy

90

The Mehlis Report

22 members

1 review

4

Member: kara.shamy

91

by Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm

24 members

½ 4.5

Member: kara.shamy

92

by Jabbour Douaihy

29 members

2 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

93

by Jabbour Douaihy

5 members

1 review

½ 2.5

Member: kara.shamy

94

Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War

724 members

11 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

95

The Story of Zahra

by Hanan Al-Shaykh

252 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

96

I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops

by Hanan Al-Shaykh

145 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

97

Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry

by Abdullah al-Udhari

55 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

98

If I Were Another: Poems

by Mahmoud Darwish

69 members

½ 4.5

Member: kara.shamy

99

Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future

by Stephen Kinzer

110 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

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