The Middle East


Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
The Arabs: A History
And the Mountains Echoed
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
From Beirut to Jerusalem
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Bookseller of Kabul
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Orientalism
Alaa Al Aswany
الحرية الوحيدة المسموح بها في مصر حرية الكلام.. أن يكتب كل واحد منا ما يشاء, و بالمقابل تفعل الحكومة بنا ما تشاء.
Alaa Al Aswany, لماذا لا يثور المصريون؟

Louis Yako
[Hand Watches] I opened the drawer Where I keep old things and tokens I glanced over some hand watches With dead batteries and frozen times… Watches that were gifted to me over time By teachers or friends To commend my accomplishments and respect for time… It never occurred to them or to me then That Time would die in a heart attack And will cease to be important The day my homeland was occupied and destroyed… The day the occupying thieves In collaboration with the thieves within Would burn ...more
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