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The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,770 ratings — published 2009
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,730 ratings — published 1991
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,060 ratings — published 1983
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,737 ratings — published 2020
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,343 ratings — published 2019
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,708 ratings — published 2010
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.53 — 59,028 ratings — published 2006
The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.85 — 124 ratings — published 1989
Eaters of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.72 — 48,265 ratings — published 1976
Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.71 — 286 ratings — published 1998
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,575 ratings — published 1994
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,979 ratings — published 2012
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.15 — 521 ratings — published 2019
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,498 ratings — published 1990
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,195 ratings — published 2006
Footnotes in Gaza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,298 ratings — published 2009
Z miłości? To współczuję. Opowieści z Omanu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,162 ratings — published 2019
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,606 ratings — published 2018
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,465 ratings — published 2013
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,213 ratings — published 2009
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,336 ratings — published 2013
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,300 ratings — published 1968
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,605 ratings — published 1966
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,493 ratings — published 2011
Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.82 — 290 ratings — published 2010
Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,664 ratings — published 1991
Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist (Mrs. Pollifax, #13)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,985 ratings — published 1997
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.84 — 24,630 ratings — published 2009
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,454 ratings — published 2006
Almost Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.76 — 682 ratings — published 2006
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,035 ratings — published 2001
The Arabs: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.67 — 184 ratings — published 1943
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,038 ratings — published 2005
The Arab Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.46 — 418 ratings — published 1973
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,705 ratings — published 2006
See Ouarzazate and die: Travels through Morocco (Abacus travel)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1992
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,637 ratings — published 1993
The Haj (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arabs)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,641 ratings — published 1984
تاريخ العربية السعودية (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as arabs)
avg rating 4.00 — 197 ratings — published 1997
المساجد والقصور في الأندلس (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as arabs)
avg rating 2.75 — 4 ratings — published
روايات غربية عن رحلات في شبه الجزيرة العربية - الجزء الأول (1500-1840)
by (shelved 1 time as arabs)
avg rating 3.92 — 26 ratings — published 2013
أحلى الأساطير العربية (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as arabs)
avg rating 2.90 — 31 ratings — published 2013
في طريق الميثولوجيا عند العرب: بحث مسهب ومعمّق في المعتقدات والأساطير العربية قبل الإسلام (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as arabs)
avg rating 4.03 — 33 ratings — published 1979
روايات غربية عن رحلات في شبه الجزيرة العربية - الجزء الثاني (1850-1880)
by (shelved 1 time as arabs)
avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published
Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying To Destroy America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as arabs)
avg rating 4.13 — 663 ratings — published 2016
The Alternative Guide to Islam (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as arabs)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
أركيولوجية الإسلام: آثار مكة والإسلام وأخباره الأولى (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as arabs)
avg rating 3.52 — 29 ratings — published
“Red Brocade"
The Arabs used to say,
When a stranger appears at your door,
feed him for three days
before asking who he is,
where he’s come from,
where he’s headed.
That way, he’ll have strength
enough to answer.
Or, by then you’ll be
such good friends
you don’t care.
Let’s go back to that.
Rice? Pine nuts?
Here, take the red brocade pillow.
My child will serve water
to your horse.
No, I was not busy when you came!
I was not preparing to be busy.
That’s the armor everyone put on
to pretend they had a purpose
in the world.
I refuse to be claimed.
Your plate is waiting.
We will snip fresh mint
into your tea.”
― 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
The Arabs used to say,
When a stranger appears at your door,
feed him for three days
before asking who he is,
where he’s come from,
where he’s headed.
That way, he’ll have strength
enough to answer.
Or, by then you’ll be
such good friends
you don’t care.
Let’s go back to that.
Rice? Pine nuts?
Here, take the red brocade pillow.
My child will serve water
to your horse.
No, I was not busy when you came!
I was not preparing to be busy.
That’s the armor everyone put on
to pretend they had a purpose
in the world.
I refuse to be claimed.
Your plate is waiting.
We will snip fresh mint
into your tea.”
― 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
“The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of the globe and entered the rudest. The difference is so profound that you're left wondering when the mutation in Semitic blood occurred, as though God parted the Red Sea and said: "Okay, you rude ones, keep wandering toward the Promised Land. The rest of you can stay here and rot in the desert, saying 'welcome, most welcome' and drowning each other in tea until the end of time.”
― Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
― Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
