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The Desert and the Drum (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.84 — 375 ratings — published 2015
Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,331 ratings — published 2015
The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.07 — 128 ratings — published
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,402 ratings — published 2017
Deep in the Sahara (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.94 — 934 ratings — published 2013
Sahara (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,333 ratings — published 2002
The Shadow of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.40 — 18,281 ratings — published 1998
Dangerous Love: A True Story of Tragedy, Faith, and Forgiveness in the Muslim World (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.14 — 226 ratings — published 2015
Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.78 — 83 ratings — published 2001
Travels in Mauritania (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.87 — 38 ratings — published 1990
Barzakh: The Land In-Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.27 — 30 ratings — published 1994
Eve out of Her Ruins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,888 ratings — published 2006
Angels of Mauritania and the Curse of the Language (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritania)
avg rating 2.69 — 13 ratings — published
To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.68 — 679 ratings — published 2013
Birds of Nabaa: A Mauritanian Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,652 ratings — published 2004
Canada in Africa - 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.31 — 36 ratings — published 2015
Mali Blues: Traveling to an African Beat (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.66 — 216 ratings — published 1996
Barefoot through Mauretania (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2006
Impossible Journey: Two Against The Sahara (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.16 — 97 ratings — published 1988
Under An African Sky: A journey to the climate frontline (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 3.63 — 19 ratings — published 2014
Beyond the Last Oasis: A Solo Walk in the Western Sahara (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritania)
avg rating 4.47 — 19 ratings — published 1985
After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.60 — 723 ratings — published 2013
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,405 ratings — published 1975
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,750 ratings — published 2024
The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,938 ratings — published 1355
Gassires Lute: A West African Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.05 — 55 ratings — published 1971
The Children of Mauritania: Days in the Desert and by the River Shore (The World's Children)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 1994
The Court of Miracles (The Court of Miracles, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.68 — 9,463 ratings — published 2020
القبر المجهول (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.04 — 51 ratings — published 1981
Honeymoon on the moon and other stories (paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.12 — 29,616 ratings — published 2005
Le forfait colonial (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Maghreb since 1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.74 — 19 ratings — published 2007
Ahmad al-Mansur: The Beginnings of Modern Morocco (Makers of the Muslim World)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.75 — 16 ratings — published 2008
Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.07 — 392 ratings — published 2017
The Sahara: A Cultural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.54 — 56 ratings — published 2011
The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.97 — 53 ratings — published 1968
The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel (Oxford Handbooks)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Mauritania's Colonels: Political Leadership, Civil-Military Relations and Democratization (African Governance Book 4)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.81 — 172 ratings — published 2025
Slavery and Islam (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.14 — 350 ratings — published
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,485 ratings — published 1999
Pieds nus à travers la Mauritanie (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Children of the World: How We Live, Learn, and Play in Poems, Drawings, and Photographs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 4.57 — 28 ratings — published 2011
N'appartenir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.72 — 18 ratings — published 2014
The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Across the Sahara in the Shadow of Jihad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mauritania)
avg rating 3.51 — 108 ratings — published 2016
“Saudi Arabia outlawed slave owning only in 1962. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania finally moved toward abolition in 1981, but the practice continued unabated, even after a 2003 law that made slave ownership punishable with jail or a fine. As recently as December 2004, the BBC cited Boubakar Messaoud of Mauritania’s SOS Slaves organization: ‘A Mauritanian slave, whose parents and grandparents before him were slaves, doesn’t need chains. He has been brought up as a domesticated animal.”
― The 10 Big Lies about America
― The 10 Big Lies about America
“Colonel Gaddafi was sitting under a tree that I had planted, we had planted several thousand hectares of forest there in Mauritania. He was sitting there under that tree and he was drinking the salted coffee that the Bedouins drink. And he was impressed. He asked me to work out a project with him in Libya as well.”
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