Arabs


The Arabs: A History
A History of the Arab Peoples
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Mornings in Jenin
Kapitoil
The Arabs
The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs
Eaters of the Dead
Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreHuế  1968 by Mark BowdenThe Full Circle for Mick by Michael G. Kramer
Take Me Somewhere I've Never Been Before
1,022 books — 479 voters

Mornings in Jenin by Susan AbulhawaMen in the Sun by Ghassan KanafaniMen in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan KanafaniTwenty Two Years to Life by Mohammed Massoud MorsiTales from an Israeli Storyteller by Uri Kurlianchik
Arab-Israeli Conflicts in Fiction
47 books — 42 voters
Gaza Writes Back by Refaat AlareerThe Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan PappéPalestine by Nur MasalhaThey Called Me a Lioness by Ahed TamimiDisappearing Palestine by Jonathan Cook
Palestinian POV - nonfiction
55 books — 10 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Must Reads
200 books — 164 voters
The Odyssey by HomerThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaMetamorphoses by OvidOn Persephone's Island by Mary Taylor SimetiThe Republic by Plato
Mediterranean Melting Pot (II): Sicily
135 books — 51 voters

Christopher Hitchens
“ Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves, while simultaneously avoiding the charge of being too 'Western.' It was very noticeable among the Palestinians that the most demonstrably 'extreme' nationalists—and Marxists—were often from Christian backgrounds. George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh used to be celebrated examples of this phenomenon, long before anyone had heard of the cadres of Hamas, or Islami ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

Naomi Shihab Nye
“ How do we carry the endless surprise of all our deaths? Becoming doctors for one another, Arab, Jew, instead of guarding tumors of pain as if they hold us upright? ”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

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