Best Middle East Fiction
Any fiction by Middle Eastern authors or about the Middle East.
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arabic, bahrain, egypt, egyptian, emirati, fiction, iran, iranian, iraq, israel, israeli, jordan, jordanian, kuwait, lebanese, lebanon, literary-fiction, middle-east, middle-eastern, oman, palestine, palestinian, persian, qatar, saudi-arabia, saudi-arabian, syria, syrian, turkey, turkish, uae, united-arab-emirates, yemen, yemeni
Melinda
1510 books
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jo
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Vera
366 books
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Erkan
60 books
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Niledaughter
1640 books
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עדית (Edith)
2081 books
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Jaanai
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Jan
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The 1st one is a Trilogy in one book , not sure if Granada: A Novel is its 1st part in English or the whole of it .

Lisa

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Here's a post about The Yacoubian Building on Newsworthy Novels, a blog that matches novels to today's headlines (the headline that day was about the turmoil in Egypt and the continued conflict between the country's moderates and the Muslim fundamentalists):
http://newsworthynovels.blogspot.com/...

Physically/geographically, it is very much an African country. However, culturally it follows the religion and lifestyles of countries which are literally located in the middle of the east. Which makes it Middle Eastern. (Which might also explain why Africa and the Middle East are often described as one big lump known as "Africa and the Middle East" - though that's another rant altogether.)
However, this conclusion bothers me! If Middle Eastern culture were to take over the whole world, then what exactly would "Middle East" mean? Go east of the middle east and you'll get to... the middle east.
Anyway, nothing at all to do with any of the books on this list, just my thoughts! Carry on!

As for Egypt , goegrafficaly it's an African- Asian country ( Sinai is in Asia) , like Turkey is Asian European , so both are considered Middle East .
I guess MENA (middle east north Africa) will be a more appropriate term in here .

Ah, I take your points. I suppose this same question and these points can also be applied to any place in the world that has been colonised, merged, or otherwise made part of/subject to another empire.
So, back to the topic at hand, Lol! I have added my like vote to this list, because I see a few titles which I would really like to read at some point. Particularly Persian Girls - I read a little of the description and it seems intensely intriguing.
I've also added A Thousand Splendid Suns. I could not put this down even when I wanted to - result: sleep deprivation and a craving for more Middle Eastern literature!


Egypt is considered to be the Middle East here, judging by the titles on this list (The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street, The Map of Love). But strictly speaking Egypt is (for the most part anyway) located in Africa, which is not the Middle East.

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