Kuwait


ساق البامبو
Salt Houses
An Unlasting Home
حارس سطح العالم
A Map of Home
فئران أمي حصة
Against the Loveless World
Small Kingdoms
Liberty in Print The Capital of the Superficial.
The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1)
The Hidden Light of Objects
Where Butterflies Fill the Sky
The Pact We Made
Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life
All That I Want to Forget
Syrian Brides by Anna HalabiThe Hidden Face of Eve by Nawal El SaadawiHeadscarves and Hymens by Mona EltahawyWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiThe Veil and the Male Elite by Fatema Mernissi
Arab feminism
46 books — 45 voters
The English Girl by Katherine WebbDubai by Robin   MooreOugarit by Camille AmmounAlif the Unseen by G. Willow WilsonStoning the Devil by Garry Craig Powell
Best Persian Gulf Fiction
47 books — 14 voters

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze ChooThe Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley RobinsonNeuromancer by William GibsonAcross the Nightingale Floor by Lian HearnBridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
SF & F Atlas - Asia
118 books — 22 voters
The Storyteller, Or, the Hakawati by Rabih AlameddineA Map of Home by Randa JarrarWhere Jasmine Blooms by Holly S. WarahThe Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja KahfCrescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
Arab Americans in Fiction
48 books — 24 voters

Robert Fisk
It doesn't seem right to me. I'd rather folks paid more for oil, than pay for their oil with my life. ...more
Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

Christopher Hitchens
So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had no excuse for not knowing the following things: I knew that its one-party, one-leader state machine was modeled on the precedents of both National Socialism and Stalinism, to say nothing of Al Capone. I knew that its police force was searching for psychopathic killers and sadistic serial murderers, not in order to arrest them but to employ them. I knew that its vast patrimony of oil wealth, far fro ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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