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The Middle East Books
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.27 — 231,933 ratings — published 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,804 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,748,833 ratings — published 2007
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,512,837 ratings — published 2003
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.49 — 35,860 ratings — published 2020
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,565 ratings — published 2009
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.08 — 406,563 ratings — published 2012
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
by (shelved 8 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,664 ratings — published 2005
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,006 ratings — published 2004
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,167 ratings — published 1989
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,836 ratings — published 2006
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,260 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 6 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,904 ratings — published 2020
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,924 ratings — published 2018
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,919 ratings — published 1978
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,862 ratings — published 1989
America's War for the Greater Middle East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,208 ratings — published 2016
On Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,196 ratings — published 2015
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,419 ratings — published 1990
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,115 ratings — published 2006
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,708 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 5 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 626,199 ratings — published 2012
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,172 ratings — published 2009
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 12,872 ratings — published 2009
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,816 ratings — published 2006
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,472 ratings — published 2016
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,567 ratings — published 2006
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,517 ratings — published 2018
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Norton Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 974 ratings — published 2001
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.04 — 39,530 ratings — published 1993
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,721 ratings — published 2006
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,981 ratings — published 2013
A History of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,801 ratings — published 1993
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,535 ratings — published 2011
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 79,281 ratings — published 2001
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,481 ratings — published
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.52 — 54,078 ratings — published 2006
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 633,623 ratings — published 1997
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,298 ratings — published 2024
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,462 ratings — published 2016
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,005 ratings — published 2022
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,853 ratings — published 2021
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,639 ratings — published 2009
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,473 ratings — published 1995
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,010 ratings — published 2007
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,271 ratings — published 2019
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,944 ratings — published 2006
Celestial Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 3.41 — 17,722 ratings — published 2010
Death Is Hard Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,813 ratings — published 2016
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-middle-east)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,226 ratings — published 2010
“الحرية الوحيدة المسموح بها في مصر حرية الكلام..
أن يكتب كل واحد منا ما يشاء, و بالمقابل تفعل الحكومة بنا ما تشاء.”
― لماذا لا يثور المصريون؟
أن يكتب كل واحد منا ما يشاء, و بالمقابل تفعل الحكومة بنا ما تشاء.”
― لماذا لا يثور المصريون؟
“[Hand Watches]
I opened the drawer
Where I keep old things and tokens
I glanced over some hand watches
With dead batteries and frozen times…
Watches that were gifted to me over time
By teachers or friends
To commend my accomplishments and respect for time…
It never occurred to them or to me then
That Time would die in a heart attack
And will cease to be important
The day my homeland was occupied and destroyed…
The day the occupying thieves
In collaboration with the thieves within
Would burn and destroy everything beautiful in it…
And since then, I refuse to wear hand watches
And will never wear one
Until my people get back their Time and dignity…
And when that happens, Time will remain unimportant
For then, I will turn into a butterfly
A sparrow
A daffodil or an orange blossom,
Or perhaps an apricot blossom on a branch
An unstoppable sprig of water
That flows beyond time and timing …
In that same drawer I found
Pens that have run out of ink
Looking like mummified corpses..
At a moment of despair,
A strong feeling struck me like a lightning
Leaving me with a frightening question:
What if this is a wound that all time can’t cure
A cause that all the ink of the world can’t solve?
[Original poem published in Arabic on February 5, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
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I opened the drawer
Where I keep old things and tokens
I glanced over some hand watches
With dead batteries and frozen times…
Watches that were gifted to me over time
By teachers or friends
To commend my accomplishments and respect for time…
It never occurred to them or to me then
That Time would die in a heart attack
And will cease to be important
The day my homeland was occupied and destroyed…
The day the occupying thieves
In collaboration with the thieves within
Would burn and destroy everything beautiful in it…
And since then, I refuse to wear hand watches
And will never wear one
Until my people get back their Time and dignity…
And when that happens, Time will remain unimportant
For then, I will turn into a butterfly
A sparrow
A daffodil or an orange blossom,
Or perhaps an apricot blossom on a branch
An unstoppable sprig of water
That flows beyond time and timing …
In that same drawer I found
Pens that have run out of ink
Looking like mummified corpses..
At a moment of despair,
A strong feeling struck me like a lightning
Leaving me with a frightening question:
What if this is a wound that all time can’t cure
A cause that all the ink of the world can’t solve?
[Original poem published in Arabic on February 5, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
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