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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1071 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,593,322 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 902 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,806,064 ratings — published 2007
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 535 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,453 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 479 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.27 — 239,720 ratings — published 2003
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 442 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,052 ratings — published 1989
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 412 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.49 — 38,915 ratings — published 2020
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 404 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 215,097 ratings — published 2007
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 402 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.08 — 415,250 ratings — published 2012
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 353 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,102 ratings — published 2006
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,340 ratings — published 1989
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 315 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,327 ratings — published 2013
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,069 ratings — published 2003
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 637,126 ratings — published 2012
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,170 ratings — published 1978
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.52 — 57,740 ratings — published 2006
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 297 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,600 ratings — published 2020
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
by (shelved 297 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,773 ratings — published 2005
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,044 ratings — published 2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,306 ratings — published 2006
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,389 ratings — published 2006
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 250 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,652 ratings — published 2016
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,712 ratings — published 1991
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.77 — 58,288 ratings — published 2002
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.47 — 260,743 ratings — published 2024
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,714 ratings — published 2009
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,575 ratings — published 2004
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 226 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,554 ratings — published 2009
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,311 ratings — published 2001
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,387 ratings — published 2011
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.23 — 141,548 ratings — published 2019
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,907 ratings — published 2011
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 187,099 ratings — published 2019
Salt Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,244 ratings — published 2017
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.74 — 154,693 ratings — published 2017
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,519 ratings — published 1994
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.56 — 74,410 ratings — published 2025
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 641,703 ratings — published 1997
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.25 — 186,645 ratings — published 2019
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 191 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,024 ratings — published 2001
An Unnecessary Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,708 ratings — published 2013
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,957 ratings — published 800
Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.28 — 21,469 ratings — published 2005
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,472 ratings — published 1993
The Map of Salt and Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.91 — 21,233 ratings — published 2018
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,472 ratings — published 1926
Minor Detail (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.17 — 47,746 ratings — published 2017
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.23 — 337,493 ratings — published 1923
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,440 ratings — published 2018
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.87 — 62,989 ratings — published 1998
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,966 ratings — published 1983
“Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian intervention in Jordan in 1970 in support of the PLO. Under the Nixon doctrine, Israel and Iran were to be 'the guardians of the Gulf,' and after the fall of the Shah, Israel's perceived role was enhanced. Meanwhile, Israel has provided subsidiary services elsewhere, including Latin America, where direct US support for the most murderous regimes has been impeded by Congress. While there has been internal debate and some fluctuation in US policy, much exaggerated in discussion here, it has been generally true that US support for Israel's militarization and expansion reflected the estimate of its power in the region.
The effect has been to turn Israel into a militarized state completely dependent on US aid, willing to undertake tasks that few can endure, such as participation in Guatemalan genocide. For Israel, this is a moral disaster and will eventually become a physical disaster as well. For the Palestinians and many others, it has been a catastrophe, as it may sooner or later be for the entire world, with the growing danger of superpower confrontation.”
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The effect has been to turn Israel into a militarized state completely dependent on US aid, willing to undertake tasks that few can endure, such as participation in Guatemalan genocide. For Israel, this is a moral disaster and will eventually become a physical disaster as well. For the Palestinians and many others, it has been a catastrophe, as it may sooner or later be for the entire world, with the growing danger of superpower confrontation.”
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“Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.”
― The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
― The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
