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Characteristic works
The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement by George Antonius (6), 201 Arabic Verbs by Raymond P. Scheindlin (8), Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories by Nayra Atiya (6), Yalo by Elias Khoury (7), Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939 by Albert Hourani (7), City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa by Adam LeBor (6), Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society by Fatima Mernissi (8), Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W. Said (12), Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege by Amira Hass (6), A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani (24), Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr (12), The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr (11), A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered by Kamal Salibi (5), Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran by Christiane Bird (6), A History of the Modern Middle East by William L. Cleveland (10), Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya, A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part One by Kristen Brustad (8), Wild Thorns by Saḥar Khalīfah (6), Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed (8), Scheherazade Goes West by Fatema Mernissi (7), The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust by Tom Segev (7), 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev (7), The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam by Fatima Mernissi (7), Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh (9), Alif Baa by Kristen Brustad (8), The Crusades through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf (17)
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (30), The Odyssey by Homer (26), Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (24), Orientalism by Edward W. Said (24), Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (23), A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani (23), Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (22), One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (21), Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (21), The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (20), The Republic of Plato by Plato (20), The Stranger by Albert Camus (20), The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (20), From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (19), The Iliad by Homer (19), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (19), The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (19), A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (19), Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (18), Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (18), Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (18), The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (18), Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (18), Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (18), The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (17)
