Middle Eastern Literature & Non-Fiction

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The Ardent Swarm
by Yamen Manai
339 members
13 reviews
4
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Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
by Nadia Wassef
202 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?: A Memoir
by Mortada Gzar
65 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The Disoriented
by Amin Maalouf
289 members
15 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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5
Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way
by Amin Maalouf
188 members
4 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
by Azadeh Moaveni
254 members
40 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Frightened Ones
by Dima Wannous
50 members
1 review
3.8
2 Members
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The Thirty Names of Night
by Zeyn Joukhadar
465 members
14 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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9
The Map of Salt and Stars
by Zeyn Joukhadar
998 members
40 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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10
Aria
by Nazanine Hozar
221 members
4 reviews
3.2
2 Members
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12
A Pure Heart: A Novel
by Rajia Hassib
121 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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13
As Though She Were Sleeping
by Elias Khoury
95 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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14
Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol
by Elias Khoury
47 members
3
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15
City Gates
by Elias Khoury
45 members
1 review
½ 2.5
2 Members
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17
Leg Over Leg, Volume Two
by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyak
26 members
2 Members
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20
The Penguin's Song
by Hassan Daoud
21 members
½ 3.3
2 Members
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21
The Twenty-Ninth Year
by Hala Alyan
62 members
1 review
½ 3.7
2 Members
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22
The Stone of Laughter
by Hoda Barakat
112 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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23
Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
by Elaine Sciolino
311 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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Disciples Of Passion
by Hoda Barakat
23 members
3
2 Members
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Samarkand
by Amin Maalouf
1,701 members
36 reviews
4
2 Members
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26
Leo the African
by Amin Maalouf
1,798 members
39 reviews
4
2 Members
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27
Balthasar's Odyssey
by Amin Maalouf
875 members
24 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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28
Confessions
by Rabee Jaber
38 members
1 review
3.8
2 Members
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29
Damascus Nights
by Rafik Schami
409 members
9 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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30
Women of Sand and Myrrh
by Hanan Al-Shaykh
572 members
12 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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31
Beirut Blues
by Hanan Al-Shaykh
187 members
2 reviews
3.2
2 Members
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32
Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World
by Samuel Shimon
97 members
23 reviews
3.2
2 Members
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33
I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman
by Joumana Haddad
94 members
2 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Occasional Virgin
by Hanan Al-Shaykh
47 members
2 reviews
½ 2.3
2 Members
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35
Silence Is a Sense
by Layla AlAmmar
75 members
10 reviews
½ 4.3
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Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs
by Ray Takeyh
75 members
½ 3.3
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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
by Mohja Kahf
210 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Printed in Beirut
by Jabbour Douaihy
13 members
2 reviews
5
2 Members
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39
Liberate and Leave: Fatal Flaws in the Early Strategy for Postwar Iraq
by Don Eberly
10 members
1 review
3.8
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The Arsonists' City
by Hala Alyan
247 members
11 reviews
4.1
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41
Hezbollah: a Short History
by Augustus Richard Norton
228 members
4 reviews
3.9
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Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
by Michael R. Gordon
892 members
12 reviews
3.9
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43
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
by Timothy Brennan
104 members
1 review
3.8
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44
A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Ian J. Bickerton
97 members
4
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The Punishment (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by Tahar Ben Jelloun
27 members
2 reviews
3.8
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Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA
by Morten Storm
154 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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Minor Detail
by Adania Shibli
921 members
32 reviews
4
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49
Israel / Palestine
by Alan Dowty
66 members
1 review
4
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
by Rashid Khalidi
1,742 members
24 reviews
½ 4.4
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51
Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
by Peter L. Bergen
612 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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Gaza: A History
by Jean-Pierre Filiu
89 members
1 review
½ 2.5
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The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq
by Kenneth M. Pollack
238 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower
by Robert Baer
257 members
9 reviews
3.8
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Elsewhere, Home
by Leila Aboulela
89 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
by Tariq Ramadan
250 members
4 reviews
4
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Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel
by Dominique Eddé
66 members
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61
When Reagan Sent In the Marines: The Invasion of Lebanon
by Patrick J. Sloyan
27 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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62
Winds of Change: The Future of Democracy in Iran
by Reza Pahlavi
13 members
3
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The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge
by Hooman Majd
70 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
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Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle East Began
by Bruce Riedel
14 members
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Strangers No More: Syrians in the United States, 1880-1900
by Linda K. Jacobs
2 members
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67
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
by Elif Shafak
1,384 members
59 reviews
4
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68
Death Is Hard Work
by Khālid Khalīfah
312 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
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69
Mama Hissa's Mice
by Saud Alsanousi
59 members
2 reviews
3
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70
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri
2,067 members
62 reviews
4
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71
A Woman Is No Man
by Etaf Rum
2,039 members
74 reviews
4
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72
Correspondents: A Novel
by Tim Murphy
72 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Parisian
by Isabella Hammad
511 members
18 reviews
½ 3.4
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74
Yalo
by Elias Khoury
202 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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75
The Journey of Little Gandhi
by Elias Khoury
34 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam
by Elias Khoury
112 members
1 review
4
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77
White Masks
by Elias Khoury
90 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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78
Little Mountain
by Elias Khoury
72 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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79
SYRIA: Descent Into the Abyss
by Robert Fisk
8 members
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80
Leg over Leg, Volume One
by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyak
53 members
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82
Salt Houses
by Hala Alyan
786 members
32 reviews
4
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83
Oh, Salaam!
by Najwa Barakat
20 members
½ 3.3
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84
The Gardens of Light
by Amin Maalouf
610 members
16 reviews
3.8
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85
Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century
by Amin Maalouf
295 members
6 reviews
3.9
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86
The Crusades through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf
2,652 members
39 reviews
3.9
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87
Origins
by Amin Maalouf
333 members
7 reviews
3.9
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
by Anthony Shadid
402 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
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89
Kite (The French List)
by Dominique Edde
14 members
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90
The Mehlis Report
by Rabee Jaber
22 members
1 review
4
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91
Warda
by Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm
30 members
½ 4.5
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92
June Rain
by Jabbour Douaihy
29 members
2 reviews
4
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Autumn Equinox
by Jabbour Douaihy
5 members
1 review
½ 2.5
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Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War
by Robert Fisk
782 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Story of Zahra
by Hanan Al-Shaykh
258 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
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I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
by Hanan Al-Shaykh
148 members
3 reviews
3.8
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97
Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
by Abdullah al-Udhari
67 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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If I Were Another: Poems
by Mahmoud Darwish
81 members
1 review
4.8
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Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future
by Stephen Kinzer
130 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4