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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1048 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,429,498 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 876 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,699,397 ratings — published 2007
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 517 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.66 — 139,161 ratings — published 2003
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 460 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.27 — 226,596 ratings — published 2003
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 408 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,626 ratings — published 1989
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 394 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 201,509 ratings — published 2007
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 387 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.08 — 398,392 ratings — published 2012
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 352 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.49 — 31,774 ratings — published 2020
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,989 ratings — published 1989
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 324 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 36,551 ratings — published 2006
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 306 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 615,329 ratings — published 2012
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,662 ratings — published 2013
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,552 ratings — published 2005
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.51 — 50,311 ratings — published 2006
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,857 ratings — published 1978
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,077 ratings — published 2003
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,324 ratings — published 2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,239 ratings — published 2006
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 251 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,567 ratings — published 2020
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.77 — 56,372 ratings — published 2002
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.55 — 9,971 ratings — published 2006
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 233 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,023 ratings — published 2016
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,578 ratings — published 1991
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,437 ratings — published 2009
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,487 ratings — published 2004
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.17 — 172,593 ratings — published 2019
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 200 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.40 — 12,129 ratings — published 2009
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,084 ratings — published 2001
Exit West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.74 — 148,997 ratings — published 2017
Salt Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.01 — 19,595 ratings — published 2017
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,016 ratings — published 1994
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,124 ratings — published 2011
The Stationery Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.23 — 114,243 ratings — published 2019
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,799 ratings — published 2011
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
by (shelved 186 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.22 — 78,394 ratings — published 2001
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.20 — 626,569 ratings — published 1997
Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.28 — 20,922 ratings — published 2005
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.03 — 80,673 ratings — published 800
A Woman Is No Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.26 — 170,552 ratings — published 2019
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.03 — 39,111 ratings — published 1993
An Unnecessary Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,829 ratings — published 2013
The Map of Salt and Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.92 — 20,283 ratings — published 2018
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,938 ratings — published 1926
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.23 — 323,529 ratings — published 1923
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.83 — 24,055 ratings — published 2009
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,490 ratings — published 1998
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,958 ratings — published 2013
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as middle-east)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,336 ratings — published 1983
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.75 — 115,385 ratings — published -1200
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 150 times as middle-east)
avg rating 3.73 — 83,167 ratings — published 2007
“ “Yes, well, I thought you should see it. The cover page is in Arabic scribblin’, but the next hundred-plus pages are in five sections, and in English. I can’t for the life of me figure out what to make of it. This appears to be more American, and it seems to be a kind of scientific material. Have a look at it and let me know what to tell the boys in Z-land,”
― Fatal Identity
― Fatal Identity
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') Covering Islam took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by the forces of the Ayatollah. Yes, it was true that the Western press—which was one half of the pun about 'covering'—had been naïve if not worse about the Pahlavi regime. Yes, it was true that few Middle East 'analysts' had had any concept of the latent power of Shi'ism to create mass mobilization. Yes, it was true that almost every stage of the Iranian drama had come as a complete surprise to the media. But wasn't it also the case that Iranian society was now disappearing into a void of retrogressive piety that had levied war against Iranian Kurdistan and used medieval weaponry such as stoning and amputation against its internal critics, or even against those like unveiled women whose very existence constituted an offense?”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
