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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... ( read more)
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Orientalism
by Edward W. Said
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The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.... ( read more)
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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
by Hooman Majd
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A revealing look at Iran by an American journalist with an insider’s access behind Persian walls The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian... ( read more)
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
by Elizabeth Wa Fernea
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A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.... ( read more)
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
by Janet Wallach
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Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in... ( read more)
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Istanbul (Lonely Planet Istanbul)
by Virginia Maxwell
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Discover Istanbul Listen to the echoes of countless footsteps rising into the dome of the Aya Sofya Savour the serene frescoes and glittering mosaics of the Chora Church Watch the sunset while commuting between Asia and Europe on a Bosphorous ferry... ( read more)
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Atlas of the Arab Israeli Conflict
by Martin Gilbert
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The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for territorial... ( read more)
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A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
by M Sukru Hanioglu
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"Without doubt the best history of the development of political ideas in the late Ottoman Empire. Haniogluu situates this history of ideas in the context of the political and diplomatic history of the empire as well as in the history of European... ( read more)
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The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
by Gershom Gorenberg
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“Remarkably insightful . . . A groundbreaking revision that deserves to reframe the entire debate . . . It soars.”—The New York Times Book Review In The Accidental Empire, Gershom Gorenberg examines the strange birth of the settler... ( read more)
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The Road to Democracy in Iran (Boston Review Books)
by Akbar Ganji
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Akbar Ganji, called by some andquot;Iran's most famous dissident,andquot; was a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. But, troubled by the regime's repressive nature, he became an investigative journalist in the 1990s, writing for Iran's... ( read more)
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Original Essays | April 24, 2009
By Tamim Ansary
"When we in the West see videos of a girl shrieking for help while being beaten for consorting with boys, we picture a society filled with shrieking."
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