Best Books for Understanding Middle Eastern Culture
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Coffee & Orange Blossoms: 7 Years & 15 Days in Tyre, Lebanon
by:
Nate Scholz
4.08 avg rating — 50 ratings 
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Muslims, Christians, and Jesus: Gaining Understanding and Building Relationships
by:
Carl Medearis
4.30 avg rating — 669 ratings 
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Spy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence
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Basel Saneeb
4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings 
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Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot – And Cold – Climate Cultures
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sarah-a-lanier
4.15 avg rating — 2,711 ratings 
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Spy... for Nobody!: Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence
by:
Basel Saneeb
4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings 
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Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East
by:
Reza Aslan
4.15 avg rating — 413 ratings 21. 
A Few Hidden Truths: Islam and Indonesian Democracy in The Age of Terror really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Complete Poems of Al-Mutanabbi: Volume I
by:
James F. Warren
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 21. 
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by:
Geraldine Brooks
4.05 avg rating — 14,927 ratings 
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A Lantern in the Shade: An Arab-American Historical Fiction Novel of Love, Family and Self-Discovery
by:
Jacob Nader
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
by:
Tom Holland
3.90 avg rating — 5,311 ratings 
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The Complete Poems of Al-Mutanabbi: Volume II
by:
James F. Warren
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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The Complete Poems of Al-Mutanabbi: Volume III
by:
James F. Warren
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Hope Is a Woman's Name: My Journey as a Bedouin Palestinian Activist in Israel 4.68 avg rating — 31 ratings
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
by:
David Fromkin
4.22 avg rating — 9,544 ratings 
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What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East
by:
Bernard Lewis
3.54 avg rating — 3,867 ratings 53. 
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Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran
by:
Nahid Siamdoust
4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings 56. 
Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran
by:
Parsua Bashi
3.42 avg rating — 448 ratings 
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Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook (Library of Arabic Literature, 63)
by:
Charles Perry
4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings 60. 
Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
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Sam Dagher
4.32 avg rating — 1,280 ratings 61. 
Fragile Nation, Shattered Land: The Modern History of Syria
by:
James A. Reilly
4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings 62. 
Lens on Syria: A Photographic Tour of Its Ancient and Modern Culture
by:
Daniel Demeter
4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 63. 
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
by:
Sarah Glidden
4.02 avg rating — 2,084 ratings 
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Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War‐Torn Syria in a Wheelchair
by:
Nujeen Mustafa
4.06 avg rating — 2,314 ratings 
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Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
by:
Katherine Zoepf
3.87 avg rating — 1,063 ratings 72. 
Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature
by:
Suheil Bushrui
3.90 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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Peace Be Upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence
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Zachary Karabell
3.96 avg rating — 170 ratings 77. 
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane 4.26 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
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Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar
by:
Lisa Urkevich
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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Arabs & Israel for Beginners (Writers and Readers Series)
by:
Ron David
3.79 avg rating — 154 ratings 81. 
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #3)
by:
Larry Gonick
4.31 avg rating — 2,152 ratings 82. 
Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
by:
Tony Horwitz
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,161 ratings 83. 
The Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World
by:
Bryn Barnard
3.91 avg rating — 168 ratings 84. 
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Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood, Revised and Updated
by:
Tarek Osman
3.79 avg rating — 312 ratings 
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Journey to the City: A Companion to the Middle East Galleries at the Penn Museum (University Museum Monograph)
by:
Steve Tinney
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 92. 
Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East
by:
David A. Leeming
3.54 avg rating — 63 ratings 93. 
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East 4.31 avg rating — 539 ratings
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
by:
Robert Fisk
4.41 avg rating — 5,520 ratings 95. 
Interventions in Conflict: International Peacemaking in the Middle East
by:
Rami G. Khouri
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 96. 
Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East
by:
Sherifa D. Zuhur
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
by:
Anthony Shadid
3.63 avg rating — 2,539 ratings 99. 
The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East
by:
Juan R.I. Cole
3.72 avg rating — 85 ratings 100. 
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
by:
Gerard Russell
4.21 avg rating — 1,526 ratings