2024 MENA reading challenge
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frisco - فریسکو has read 2 of 2 books in 2024.
FRISCO - فریسکو’S 2024 BOOKS
  • Un dettaglio minore by Adania Shibli
  • La bastarda di Istanbul by Elif Shafak
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message 1: by frisco - فریسکو (last edited Dec 26, 2024 03:53AM) (new)

frisco - فریسکو My goal: 3 books (for now)
Read: 1/3 (updated: 26/12/2024)
(link to the list: here)

1. a book, fiction or non-fiction, about the Palestine conflict:
Shibli, Adania - Minor Detail (Translated book: Un dettaglio minore) (read) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

2. a book, fiction or non-fiction, based on or about MENA history:

3. a book, fiction or non-fiction, about "Empowering women":
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):

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):

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

9. a book, fiction or non-fiction, by a Turkish author:
Shafak, Elif - The Bastard of Istanbul (Italian-language translation: La bastarda di Istanbul) (reading)
Sönmez, Burhan - Istanbul Istanbul (planned)

10. a book, fiction or non-fiction by an Iranian author:

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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