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Season of Migration to the North
Orientalism
A Woman Is No Man
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A History of the Arab Peoples
Celestial Bodies
The Prophet
Zeitoun
Impasse des deux palais
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Mornings in Jenin
The Yacoubian Building
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,012 books — 1,454 voters
If You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanGuapa by Saleem HaddadTurkey by Jack  ScottThe Hakawati by Rabih AlameddinePerking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey by Jack  Scott
LGBT in the Middle East
65 books — 69 voters

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée AhdiehThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinKindred by Octavia E. ButlerWho Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Fantasy Novels by Women of Color
261 books — 193 voters
The City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Kingdom of Copper by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Empire of Gold by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Tale of Iśva Raman by Najeev NadarajahThe Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Middle Eastern - South Asian fantasy
49 books — 39 voters


Zahra Fatima Hankir
The essential Arab concept of maintaining dignity seemed alien to all but the savviest of soldiers
Zahra Fatima Hankir, Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Diana Abu-Jaber
The loneliness of the arab is a terrible thing; it is all consuming. It is already present like a little shadow under the heart when he lays his head on his mother's lap; it threatens to swallow him whole when he leaves his own country, even though he marries and travels and talks to friends twenty-four hours a day. That is the way Sirine suspects that Arabs feel everything - larger than life, feelings walking in the sky. ...more
Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent

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