Iran and Iraq, Ancient and Modern

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,477 ratings
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,194 ratings
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Not Without My Daughter
Not Without My Daughter 4.18 avg rating — 37,751 ratings
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 224,947 ratings
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 4.17 avg rating — 22,747 ratings
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Rooftops of Tehran
Rooftops of Tehran 3.96 avg rating — 11,117 ratings
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The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,398 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.45 avg rating — 1,681,968 ratings
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The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing 4.28 avg rating — 4,654 ratings
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The Essential Rumi
The Essential Rumi 4.39 avg rating — 49,830 ratings
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Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14) 3.94 avg rating — 67,392 ratings
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The Prophet
The Prophet 4.23 avg rating — 321,145 ratings
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings 4.51 avg rating — 5,517 ratings
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind 4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1) 4.70 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2) 4.74 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Blood of Flowers
The Blood of Flowers 3.99 avg rating — 19,492 ratings
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The Septembers of Shiraz
The Septembers of Shiraz 3.83 avg rating — 8,352 ratings
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Things I've Been Silent About
Things I've Been Silent About 3.73 avg rating — 4,906 ratings
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 78,066 ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West 4.17 avg rating — 11,230 ratings
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The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life 3.95 avg rating — 3,718 ratings
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds 4.23 avg rating — 7,700 ratings
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The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2) 4.18 avg rating — 10,900 ratings
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No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam 4.13 avg rating — 28,340 ratings
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The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems 4.45 avg rating — 4,611 ratings
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Tehran Moonlight
Tehran Moonlight 4.04 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Kurdish Bike
The Kurdish Bike 3.90 avg rating — 3,551 ratings
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Rain and Embers
Rain and Embers
by: Ali Nuri
4.38 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Tara's Book
Tara's Book 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others 4.01 avg rating — 2,700 ratings
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To Keep the Sun Alive
To Keep the Sun Alive 3.95 avg rating — 1,049 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,605 ratings
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran 4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings
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Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History 3.87 avg rating — 14,315 ratings
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Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran 3.70 avg rating — 4,726 ratings
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Land of Marvels
Land of Marvels 3.24 avg rating — 764 ratings
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The Sirens of Baghdad
The Sirens of Baghdad 3.87 avg rating — 3,310 ratings
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone 4.04 avg rating — 6,602 ratings
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Shah of Shahs
Shah of Shahs 4.23 avg rating — 7,709 ratings
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America 3.84 avg rating — 27,113 ratings
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Divan of Hafez: دیوان خواجه شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی
Divan of Hafez: دیوان خواجه شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی
by: Hafez
4.65 avg rating — 7,381 ratings
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An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah
An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah 3.80 avg rating — 1,766 ratings
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Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival 4.11 avg rating — 4,546 ratings
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The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi: Vols 2, 4, 6, English Translation (set)
The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi: Vols 2, 4, 6, English Translation (set) 4.45 avg rating — 4,129 ratings
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And the Mountains Echoed
And the Mountains Echoed 4.08 avg rating — 395,505 ratings
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Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran 3.79 avg rating — 1,927 ratings
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Creation
Creation 4.22 avg rating — 4,936 ratings
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Prisoner of Tehran
Prisoner of Tehran 4.21 avg rating — 14,319 ratings
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Persian Letters
Persian Letters 3.64 avg rating — 7,954 ratings
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Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia
Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia 4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings
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If You Could Be Mine
If You Could Be Mine 3.71 avg rating — 10,298 ratings
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Love in a Torn Land: Joanna of Kurdistan: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter's Escape from Iraqi Vengeance
Love in a Torn Land: Joanna of Kurdistan: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter's Escape from Iraqi Vengeance really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,806 ratings
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A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea 3.78 avg rating — 2,900 ratings
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Samarkand
Samarkand 4.24 avg rating — 30,680 ratings
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The Art and Architecture of Persia
The Art and Architecture of Persia 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War 4.15 avg rating — 913 ratings
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East 4.41 avg rating — 5,520 ratings
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The Gift of Rumi
The Gift of Rumi 4.26 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Last Days of Café Leila
The Last Days of Café Leila 3.94 avg rating — 3,837 ratings
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All The Shah's Horses
All The Shah's Horses 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Iran from Crown to Turbans
Iran from Crown to Turbans 4.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire 4.28 avg rating — 2,765 ratings
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Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War 3.96 avg rating — 1,596 ratings
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Equal of the Sun
Equal of the Sun 3.75 avg rating — 2,570 ratings
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Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey 3.89 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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Discourses of Rumi
Discourses of Rumi 4.26 avg rating — 1,806 ratings
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My Uncle Napoleon
My Uncle Napoleon 4.21 avg rating — 8,060 ratings
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Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 3,491 ratings
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Moon at Nine
Moon at Nine 3.88 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry
Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry 4.07 avg rating — 243 ratings
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The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran 4.16 avg rating — 1,050 ratings
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Sumer and the Sumerians
Sumer and the Sumerians 3.53 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Gaze of the Gazelle: The Story of a Generation
The Gaze of the Gazelle: The Story of a Generation 3.73 avg rating — 994 ratings
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Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians (Volume 1) (Dictionaries of Civilization)
Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians (Volume 1) (Dictionaries of Civilization) 3.62 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Islamic Art in Detail
Islamic Art in Detail 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Fall of Baghdad
The Fall of Baghdad 3.98 avg rating — 381 ratings
78.
Quarantine
Quarantine
by: Jim Crace
3.68 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
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Embroideries
Embroideries 3.94 avg rating — 29,943 ratings
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The Gardener of Baghdad
The Gardener of Baghdad 3.92 avg rating — 1,609 ratings
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War Journal: My Five Years In Iraq
War Journal: My Five Years In Iraq 4.24 avg rating — 368 ratings
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A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq 4.04 avg rating — 765 ratings
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq 4.09 avg rating — 7,790 ratings
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Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran
Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran 3.42 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Baghdad Noir
Baghdad Noir 3.62 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq 3.91 avg rating — 86 ratings
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A Dangerous Element
A Dangerous Element 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Iraq on Their Doorstep
Iraq on Their Doorstep 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Keep Eyes Behind
Keep Eyes Behind 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A Little Prince in the Land of the Mullahs: The True Story of a Teenager Who Stood up to the Mullahs' Regime in Iran
A Little Prince in the Land of the Mullahs: The True Story of a Teenager Who Stood up to the Mullahs' Regime in Iran 4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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乙嫁語り 7 [Otoyomegatari 7] (A Bride's Story, #7)
乙嫁語り 7 [Otoyomegatari 7] (A Bride's Story, #7) 4.22 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia 3.81 avg rating — 6,040 ratings
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Ode to Fragile
Ode to Fragile 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Saddlebag
The Saddlebag 3.86 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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乙嫁語り 12 [Otoyomegatari 12] (A Bride's Story, #12)
乙嫁語り 12 [Otoyomegatari 12] (A Bride's Story, #12) 4.37 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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A Bitter Veil
A Bitter Veil 4.05 avg rating — 934 ratings
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The Assyrian
The Assyrian 4.26 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
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The Warrior Who Carried Life
The Warrior Who Carried Life 3.51 avg rating — 158 ratings
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天幕のジャードゥーガル 1 [Tenmaku no Jaadugar 1]
天幕のジャードゥーガル 1 [Tenmaku no Jaadugar 1] 4.02 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Between the Rivers
Between the Rivers 3.62 avg rating — 359 ratings
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