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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... ( read more)
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In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
by Qanta Ahmet
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In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr. Ahmed... ( read more)
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Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
by Jimmy Carter
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President Carters challenging and provocative assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice for Palestinians--and one of the most important books of the year--is now available in paperback.... ( read more)
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
by Jimmy Carter
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Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine.
President... ( read more)
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Persian Girls: A Memoir
by Nahid Rachlin
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For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept... ( read more)
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From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter
by Thomas L Friedman
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Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting,... ( read more)
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
by Orhan Pamuk
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Weaving history with observations of people, places, and art, Pamuk shows Istanbul's transformation from the seat of faded imperial glory to the capital of a modern nation at the dizzying crossroads of East and West.... ( read more)
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
by Mark Bowden
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From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America’s first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary... ( read more)
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Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
by Queen Noor
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A national best-seller on its first publication in 2003, Leap of Faith is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. In it, Queen Noor of Jordan provides a compelling portrait of her late husband King Hussein and... ( read more)
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Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
by Robert Fisk
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With the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Robert Fisk's explosive Pity the Nation recounts Sharon and Arafat's first deadly encounter in Lebanon in the early 1980s... ( read more)
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The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart
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In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah,... ( read more)
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A Hundred and One Days
by Asne Seierstad
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Insightful account of the Iraq war, a city under seige and a fascinating portrait of the life of a foreign correspondent. Seierstad is the bestselling author of "The Bookseller Of Kabul".... ( read more)
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by Geraldine Brooks
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With a new afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... ( read more)
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The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
by Tariq Ali
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The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland, breached for the first time since 1812, led to... ( read more)
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The Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
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In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it... ( read more)
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The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq
by Fouad Ajami
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Fouad Ajami, one of the worlds foremost authorities on Middle Eastern politics and the recipient of the 2006 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Achievement and the National Humanities Medal of 2006, offers a brilliant, illuminating, and lyrical portrait of... ( read more)
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Orientalism
by Edward W Said
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The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.... ( read more)
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Palestine
by Joe Sacco
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A single volume collection of the landmark novel by Joe Sacco.... ( read more)
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Princess Sultana's Daughters
by Jean P Sasson
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Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary story, Princess, were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. Now, Jean Sasson turns the spotlight on Sultana's two teenage daughters, Maha... ( read more)
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
by Jean P Sasson
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A Saudi woman discusses what life is like for women in her country, describing how women are sold into marriage to men five times their age, are treated as their husbands' slaves, and are often murdered for the slightest transgression.... ( read more)
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