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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1071 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,616,429 ratings — published
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 907 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,823,029 ratings — published 2007
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 538 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.67 — 144,233 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 481 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.28 — 241,805 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 443 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,104 ratings — published 1989
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 419 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.49 — 39,671 ratings — published 2020
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 408 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.08 — 417,720 ratings — published 2012
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 405 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 217,468 ratings — published 2007
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 357 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,648 ratings — published 2006
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,389 ratings — published 1989
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,270 ratings — published 2003
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,440 ratings — published 2013
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 640,212 ratings — published 2012
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,506 ratings — published 1978
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 301 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,710 ratings — published 2020
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.53 — 58,788 ratings — published 2006
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
by (shelved 296 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,788 ratings — published 2005
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,167 ratings — published 2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,432 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 — 359,544 ratings — published 2006
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 252 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.31 — 16,764 ratings — published 2016
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,729 ratings — published 1991
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.47 — 279,298 ratings — published 2024
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.77 — 58,576 ratings — published 2002
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,760 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 240 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,675 ratings — published 2004
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 228 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,726 ratings — published 2009
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.23 — 145,456 ratings — published 2019
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,476 ratings — published 2011
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,336 ratings — published 2001
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 189,124 ratings — published 2019
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,010 ratings — published 2011
Salt Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,490 ratings — published 2017
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.55 — 79,916 ratings — published 2025
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.74 — 155,318 ratings — published 2017
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,570 ratings — published 1994
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 644,294 ratings — published 1997
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.25 — 188,578 ratings — published 2019
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 191 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,421 ratings — published 2001
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,765 ratings — published 800
An Unnecessary Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,835 ratings — published 2013
Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.29 — 21,556 ratings — published 2005
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,616 ratings — published 1993
The Map of Salt and Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.91 — 21,372 ratings — published 2018
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,555 ratings — published 1926
Minor Detail (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 48,789 ratings — published 2017
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.23 — 339,605 ratings — published 1923
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,573 ratings — published 2018
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.84 — 24,611 ratings — published 2009
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,047 ratings — published 1983
“الحديث مع فتاة متحررة بالنسبة لي هنا كان مثل نسمة هواء باردة ومنعشة، أستعيد بها روحي التي كانت تختنق أمام تناقضات وإزدواجية فتيات يردن التحرر، بينما يقررن أن الزواج والجلوس في البيت قد يكون نهاية المطاف، أو حتي بعض الفتيات المتحررات اللائي لا يرين غضاضة في أن ينفق عليهن رجل بالكامل. لم أستطع أن أفهم منطقهن الانتهازي، الحصول على مزايا التحرر، و مزايا النظام الشرقي الأبوي التقليدي معًا.”
― جنية في قارورة
― جنية في قارورة
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') Covering Islam took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by the forces of the Ayatollah. Yes, it was true that the Western press—which was one half of the pun about 'covering'—had been naïve if not worse about the Pahlavi regime. Yes, it was true that few Middle East 'analysts' had had any concept of the latent power of Shi'ism to create mass mobilization. Yes, it was true that almost every stage of the Iranian drama had come as a complete surprise to the media. But wasn't it also the case that Iranian society was now disappearing into a void of retrogressive piety that had levied war against Iranian Kurdistan and used medieval weaponry such as stoning and amputation against its internal critics, or even against those like unveiled women whose very existence constituted an offense?”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
