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A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,724 ratings — published 1991
Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.28 — 21,523 ratings — published 2005
Impasse des deux palais (Poche)
by (shelved 11 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,552 ratings — published 1956
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,020 ratings — published 1983
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,388 ratings — published 1978
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,816,848 ratings — published 2007
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,608,025 ratings — published 2003
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.53 — 58,412 ratings — published 2006
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,745 ratings — published 2009
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 338,839 ratings — published 1923
The Yacoubian Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,924 ratings — published 2002
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,938 ratings — published 1988
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.08 — 416,830 ratings — published 2012
Celestial Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.41 — 18,331 ratings — published 2010
التيه (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,043 ratings — published 1984
Le Palais du désir (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,739 ratings — published 1957
الخبز الحافي (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.57 — 11,901 ratings — published 1973
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,355 ratings — published 1966
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 35,121 ratings — published 1975
Minor Detail (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 48,426 ratings — published 2017
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,337 ratings — published 2019
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.49 — 39,368 ratings — published 2020
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.48 — 4,716 ratings — published 2019
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,522,789 ratings — published 1942
Le Jardin du passé (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,984 ratings — published 1957
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,678 ratings — published 800
Frankenstein in Baghdad (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.59 — 21,166 ratings — published 2013
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.74 — 155,076 ratings — published 2017
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,117 ratings — published 2006
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,638 ratings — published 2014
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,869 ratings — published 2003
Leo Africanus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 17,490 ratings — published 1986
Midaq Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,027 ratings — published 1947
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,192 ratings — published 1957
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,123 ratings — published 1977
رأيت رام الله (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,298 ratings — published 1997
ذاكرة الجسد (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,822 ratings — published 1993
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,775 ratings — published 2005
الحرافيش (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 21,459 ratings — published 1977
Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.90 — 155 ratings — published
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,386 ratings — published 2013
Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 108 ratings — published 2002
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,677 ratings — published 2020
On Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,803 ratings — published 2015
Sea Prayer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.11 — 61,792 ratings — published 2018
Nasser: The Last Arab: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 176 ratings — published 2004
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,489 ratings — published 1990
كل رجال الباشا: محمد علي وجيشه وبناء مصر الحديثة (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,865 ratings — published 1997
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,524 ratings — published 2018
The Old Social Classes & The Revolutionary Movement In Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba'thists and Free Officers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.60 — 63 ratings — published 1979
“[Arabs and Garbage]
A strange thing, this relationship
between Arabs and garbage.
Who told them,
who taught them,
to throw it away at random,
wherever
and however
they please?
When will Arabs understand
that placing garbage
where it belongs
would solve half
their environmental
and social problems?
And that the other half
would begin to disappear
the moment they stop
throwing away
their human treasures:
their skilled,
their talented,
their gifted people,
driving them beyond their borders
to enrich strangers instead?
When will Arabs stop
discarding
their finest minds,
only to replace them
with imported foreign refuse,
which they revere
simply because it arrives
with white skin
and blue eyes,
claiming to possess
skills and expertise
without which, they are told,
the natives cannot survive?
When will Arabs understand
that putting garbage
in its proper place,
whether the garbage
that governs them
or the garbage
they import,
would solve
all their problems?
20 February 2024”
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
A strange thing, this relationship
between Arabs and garbage.
Who told them,
who taught them,
to throw it away at random,
wherever
and however
they please?
When will Arabs understand
that placing garbage
where it belongs
would solve half
their environmental
and social problems?
And that the other half
would begin to disappear
the moment they stop
throwing away
their human treasures:
their skilled,
their talented,
their gifted people,
driving them beyond their borders
to enrich strangers instead?
When will Arabs stop
discarding
their finest minds,
only to replace them
with imported foreign refuse,
which they revere
simply because it arrives
with white skin
and blue eyes,
claiming to possess
skills and expertise
without which, they are told,
the natives cannot survive?
When will Arabs understand
that putting garbage
in its proper place,
whether the garbage
that governs them
or the garbage
they import,
would solve
all their problems?
20 February 2024”
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
“If Syria is to rise from the ashes it needs a united Arab world which has one thing on its agenda, not the falling of a dictator for we have seen many of those fall, but the reemergence of a prosperous Arab nation, one that is not reliant on foreign aid but is self-sustained and set on its way to become powerful once again.”
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