2023 MENA reading challenge
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
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frisco - فریسکو has read 6 of 5 books in 2023.
FRISCO - فریسکو’S 2023 BOOKS
  • La civetta cieca - Tre gocce di sangue by Sadegh Hedayat
  • Dei nostri fratelli feriti by Joseph Andras
  • The Night Will Have Its Say by Ibrahim al-Koni
  • Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
  • Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
  • Leggere Lolita a Teheran by Azar Nafisi
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message 1: by frisco - فریسکو (last edited Dec 18, 2023 10:14AM) (new)

frisco - فریسکو My goal: 5 books
6/5 (updated: 18/12/2023)
Link to the list: here

1. a book, fiction or non-fiction, about the Palestine conflict:
Pappé, Ilan - Ten Myths About Israel (read) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Shibli, Adania - Minor Detail (Translated book: Un dettaglio minore) (reading)

2. a book, fiction or non-fiction, based on or about MENA history:
Andras, Joseph - De nos frères blessés (Translated book: Dei nostri fratelli feriti) (read) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

3. a book, fiction or non-fiction, about "Empowering women":
Nafisi, Azar - Reading Lolita in Tehran (Translated book: Leggere Lolita a Teheran) (read) ⭐⭐⭐½
Haeri, Niloofar - Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran (planned)

4. a book, fiction or non-fiction, by an author from Iraq:
al-Azzawi, Fadhil - The Last of the Angels (planned)

5. a book, fiction or non-fiction, by an author from Al-Sham (Lebanon, Jordan, Syria):
Maalouf, Amin - Samarkand (read) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

6. a book, fiction or non-fiction, by an author from The Arabian Peninsula - (Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates):
Algosaibi, Ghazi A. - An Apartment Called Freedom (planned)

7. a book, fiction or non-fiction, by an author from The Maghreb (North Africa) - (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania):
al-Koni, Ibrahim - The Night Will Have Its Say (read) ⭐⭐

8. a book, fiction or non-fiction, by an author from Egypt:

9. a book, fiction or non-fiction, by a Turkish author:
Sönmez, Burhan - Istanbul Istanbul (planned)

10. a book, fiction or non-fiction by an Iranian author:
Hedayat, Sadegh - The Blind Owl (صادق هدایت - بوف کور / Translated book: La civetta cieca - Tre gocce di sangue) (read) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

11. a book, fiction or non-fiction, by an author from Sudan and the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Djibouti and Eritrea):

12. a book, fiction or non-fiction by an author from the "Stan" countries or Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) and Afghanistan or Pakistan:
Ismailov, Hamid - The Devils' Dance (planned)


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