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The Sand Fish: An Atmospheric Middle Eastern Story of Rebellion in 1950s Dubai Culture
Temporary People (Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant W)
City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism
Arabian Sands
From Rags to Riches: A Story of Abu Dhabi
That Other Me
Letters to a Young Muslim
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
ومضات من فكر
From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates
Dubai: Gilded Cage
The Wink of Mona Lisa and other stories from the Gulf
Layover in Dubai
Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East
Gulf
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
52 books — 41 voters
Under a Crescent Moon by Julia Juwairiah Simpson-Urr...The English Girl by Katherine WebbDubai by Robin   MooreOugarit by Camille AmmounAlif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Best Persian Gulf Fiction
47 books — 14 voters

Nobody's Children by WD OliveThe Rutland Mule Matter by Richard Lee CroninNobody's Children by WD OliveU.S. Special Forces Commando by Brook G. BangsbøllMiddle Kingdom Lost by Nan-Yao Su
War History Non Fiction
16 books — 19 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
49 books — 25 voters

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
444 books — 498 voters

Adil Alzarooni
No one has a perfect life Some of us just hide the imperfections well.
Adil Alzarooni, The Red Island: The Gatekeeper

Deepak Unnikrishnan
The highway that takes travelers from Abu Dhabi to Dubai is clean and fine. Illuminated at night by cat's eye reflectors, it's a highway designed for machines, where Lamborghinis speed, why the desert got bisected, why the camels were fenced out. But Chainsmoke couldn't be bothered. He spent his trip napping on a stranger's shoulder, dreaming about money. He woke to honks. There had been a pileup not far from the Jebel Ali zone. A trailer overturned. Happened too quickly for the brakes to even m ...more
Deepak Unnikrishnan, Temporary People

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