Iraq


Frankenstein in Baghdad
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
The Yellow Birds
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Forever War
وحدها شجرة الرمان
Redeployment
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq
Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
There Are Rivers in the Sky
If You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanGuapa by Saleem HaddadTurkey by Jack  ScottThe Hakawati by Rabih AlameddinePerking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey by Jack  Scott
LGBT in the Middle East
65 books — 70 voters
The Storyteller, Or, the Hakawati by Rabih AlameddineA Map of Home by Randa JarrarWhere Jasmine Blooms by Holly S. WarahThe Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja KahfCrescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
Arab Americans in Fiction
49 books — 25 voters

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,284 books — 2,632 voters
Black Flags by Joby WarrickHet meisje dat van IS won by Farida KhalafThe Last Girl by Nadia MuradThe Way of the Strangers by Graeme WoodThe Jihadis Return by Patrick Cockburn
Books about ISIS
100 books — 21 voters

The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
287 books — 147 voters

Chris Hedges
“ The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence. ”
― Chris Hedges

Omar El Akkad
“ I think of the hundreds upon hundreds of pictures and videos of the mutilated, the starved, the dismembered, and I am reminded that all of this is functionally invisible to so many in the part of the world where I now live. That if it were presented to them, some would undoubtedly respond the way Barbara Bush once did when asked about the Iraqi dead: “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” But others, I t ...more ”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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