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The Arsonists' City
Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy
The Beirut Protocol (Marcus Ryker #4)
The Wrong End of the Telescope
Une éducation orientale (French Edition)
Son of Sin
The Refugee Ocean
O (Penguin Poets)
City on the Edge
Song for the Missing
Mauvaises herbes
Paper Sparrows
Between Beirut And The Moon
Shifting the Silence
The Prophet
An Unnecessary Woman
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
The Hakawati
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return (Graphic Universe)
The Broken Wings
The Arsonists' City
De Niro's Game
Samarkand
A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered
Gate of the Sun
From Beirut to Jerusalem
I Remember Beirut
The Rock of Tanios
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story
Leo Africanus by Amin MaaloufThe Ming Storytellers by Laura RahmeThe Hakawati by Rabih AlameddineRansom by David MaloufStrings Attached by Diane Decillis
Lebanese Authors
10 books — 6 voters
The A to Z of the Druzes by Samy SwaydThe Druze and Their Faith in Tawhid by Anis I. Obeid
Druze
2 books — 1 voter

ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa AshourThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAzazil by Youssef ZiedanThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Best Middle East Fiction
432 books — 472 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

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
Spy for nobody by Basel Saneebجاسوس من أجل لا أحد by Basel SaneebSpy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence by Basel Saneebجاسوس من أجل لا أحد by Basel Saneebجاسوس من أجل لا أحد by Basel Saneeb
Around the World: Middle East
21 books — 7 voters


Hilal Chouman
أعرف مثلاً أنني -يوماً ما- سأقضي حياتي متنقلاً بين شقة وأخرى في المناطق التي لم أعش فيها يوماً في هذا البلد وتبدو لي غريبة. برج حمود مثلاً. المجتمع الأرمني يجذبني. ربما لأنني لا أعرف عنه كثيراً. يجنح بي الخيال لأرى نفسي في حضرة عجوز أرمنية في كرسي هزاز فيما أنا تحت قدميها، أجلس القرفصاء وأستمع لحكاياتها التي لا تنتهي عن بطل أرمني ما ذبحه الأتراك. وستخبرني العجوز الأرمنية عن الرمّان وهي تقدم لي بعض حبوبه. تقول لي أن كوز الرمان يحوي 365 حبة. تقول لي أن الرمان أنقذ العائلات الأرمنية من الموت المحت ...more
هلال شومان, ما رواه النوم

Hysteria! And grief and bitterness. That's what goes on. Not satisfied that our fighters evacuated the city, the enemy went after their women and children whom they left behind in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, slaughtered them, and left their bodies stacked in grotesque piles in the muddy lanes, fly-covered, rotting in the sun. They went after our Palestine Research Center the repository of our culture and history in exile, whose treasures we had been collecting since the day we left P ...more
Fawaz Turki, Soul in Exile

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