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Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.28 — 21,100 ratings — published 2005
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,639 ratings — published 1991
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,670 ratings — published 1978
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,563 ratings — published 1983
Impasse des deux palais (Poche)
by (shelved 9 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,515 ratings — published 1956
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,735,936 ratings — published 2007
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.52 — 53,297 ratings — published 2006
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,494,247 ratings — published 2003
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 329,127 ratings — published 1923
The Yacoubian Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,165 ratings — published 2002
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,633 ratings — published 1988
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.08 — 404,397 ratings — published 2012
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,538 ratings — published 2009
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,639 ratings — published 1966
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,259 ratings — published 1975
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.49 — 35,096 ratings — published 2020
Celestial Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.41 — 17,580 ratings — published 2010
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.49 — 4,508 ratings — published 2019
التيه (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,866 ratings — published 1984
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,401,886 ratings — published 1942
الخبز الحافي (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,179 ratings — published 1973
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,626 ratings — published 2014
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,340 ratings — published 2003
Leo Africanus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,707 ratings — published 1986
Midaq Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,419 ratings — published 1947
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,076 ratings — published 1957
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,986 ratings — published 1977
رأيت رام الله (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,957 ratings — published 1997
ذاكرة الجسد (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,649 ratings — published 1993
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,624 ratings — published 2005
Minor Detail (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.17 — 42,752 ratings — published 2017
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,774 ratings — published 2022
الحرافيش (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,612 ratings — published 1977
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,260 ratings — published 2019
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,901 ratings — published 2013
On Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,064 ratings — published 2015
Sea Prayer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.11 — 60,541 ratings — published 2018
Le Palais du désir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,295 ratings — published 1957
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,414 ratings — published 1990
كل رجال الباشا: محمد علي وجيشه وبناء مصر الحديثة (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,782 ratings — published 1997
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.03 — 81,931 ratings — published 800
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,833 ratings — published 2018
Saudi, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 585 ratings — published
Frankenstein in Baghdad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.59 — 19,587 ratings — published 2013
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.33 — 8,270 ratings — published 2017
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.74 — 151,584 ratings — published 2017
The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,287 ratings — published 2016
ميرامار (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,036 ratings — published 1967
Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 4.08 — 353 ratings — published 2008
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arab-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,399 ratings — published 2013
“For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.”
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“In California, after weeks of meeting transported Americans from practically every state in the Union, I announced to Kareem that I liked these strange loud people, the Americans. When he asked me why, I had difficulty in voicing what I felt in my heart. I finally said: 'I believe this marvellous mixture of cultures has brought civilization closer to reality than in any other culture in history.' I was certain Kareem did not understand what I meant and I tried to explain. 'So few countries manage complete freedom for all their citizens without chaos; this has been accomplished in this huge land. It appears impossible for large numbers of people to stay on a course of freedom for all when so many options are available. Just imagine what would happen in the Arab world; a country the size of America would have a war a minute, with each man certain he had the only correct answer for the good of all! In our lands, men look no farther than their own noses for a solution. Here, it is different.'
Kareem looked at me in amazement. Not used to a woman interested in the greater scheme of things, he questioned me into the night to learn my thoughts on various matters. It was obvious that my husband was not accustomed to a woman with opinions of her own. He seemed in utter shock that I thought of political issues and the state of the world. Finally, he kissed me on the neck and said that I would continue my education once we returned to Riyadh. Irritated at his tone of permission, I told him I was not aware that my education was up for discussion.”
― Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Kareem looked at me in amazement. Not used to a woman interested in the greater scheme of things, he questioned me into the night to learn my thoughts on various matters. It was obvious that my husband was not accustomed to a woman with opinions of her own. He seemed in utter shock that I thought of political issues and the state of the world. Finally, he kissed me on the neck and said that I would continue my education once we returned to Riyadh. Irritated at his tone of permission, I told him I was not aware that my education was up for discussion.”
― Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
