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Category:  Middle East (& Near East) : Literature & History (Sorted by Author's last name)


West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story (2002) - Tamim Ansary (1948-)    (Grade:B)

Islam: A Short History (2000) - Karen Armstrong (-)    (Grade:C-)

No god but God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005) - Reza Aslan (1972-)    (Grade:A)

The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization (2005) - Michael Balter (-)    (Grade:A-)

The Silent Man (2009) - Alex Berenson (-)    (Grade:A)

The Faithful Spy (2006) - Alex Berenson (-)    (Grade:A+)

Saddam: King of Terror (2002) - Con Coughlin (-)    (Grade:A)

The Meursault Investigation (2013) - Kamel Daoud (06/17/1970 -)    (Grade:B-)

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain (2016) - Dario Fernandez-Morera ( -)    (Grade:A)

City of Veils (2010) - ZoĆ« Ferraris (-)    (Grade:A)

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989) - David Fromkin (-)    (Grade:A+)

The Tehran Conviction (2010) - Tom Gabbay (-)    (Grade:B+)

The Far Enemy : Why Jihad Went Global (2005) - Fawaz A. Gerges (-)    (Grade:B+)

Shooting War (2007) - Dan Goldman (11/05/1974-)    (Grade:C-)

Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the Wes (2006) - Alex Grobman (-)    (Grade:A-)

Moth Smoke (2000) - Mohsin Hamid (7/23/1971 -)    (Grade:A)

The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad (2013) - Lesley Hazelton (1945-)    (Grade:B-)

Baghdad Without a Map : And Other Misadventures in Arabia (1991) - Tony Horwitz (1958-)    (Grade:A)

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) - Khaled Hosseini (03/04/1965-)    (Grade:B+)

The Kite Runner (2003) - Khaled Hosseini (03/04/1965-)    (Grade:B+)

Wild Thorns (Al-Subar) (1976) - Sahar Khalifeh (1941-)    (Grade:B)

A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran (2010) - Reza Khalili (-)    (Grade:B)

Crescent & Star : Turkey Between Two Worlds (2001) - Stephen Kinzer (-)    (Grade:A-)

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (2010) - Michael Korda (10/08/1933 -)    (Grade:A-)

Shooting War (2007) - Anthony Lappe (-)    (Grade:C-)

What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002) - Bernard Lewis (-)    (Grade:A)

Palace of Desire: Book II of the Cairo Trilogy (1957) - Naguib Mahfouz (1911-)    (Grade:C+)

The Book of Trouble : A Romance (2006) - Ann Marlowe (1958-)    (Grade:B+)

The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (2015) - William McCants (1975-)    (Grade:A)

The Riddle and the Knight : In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler (1996) - Giles Milton (1/15/1966 -)    (Grade:A)

Mantle of the Prophet : Religion and Politics in Iran (1985) - Roy Mottahedeh (1940-)    (Grade:B)

The Samaritan's Secret (Omar Yussef Mysteries) (2010) - Matthew Beynon Rees (1967-)    (Grade:A-)

The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism (1999) - Simon Reeve (-)    (Grade:B+)

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) - Louise Richardson (-)    (Grade:C)

The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Bampton Lectures in America) (2008) - Jonathan Riley-Smith (06/27/1938-)    (Grade:A+)

Two Stars for Peace: The Case for Using U.S. Statehood to Achieve Lasting Peace in the Middle East (2003) - Martine Rothblatt (-)    (Grade:A)

The Truth about Syria (2007) - Barry Rubin (-)    (Grade:A)

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) - Salman Rushdie (6/19/1947 -)    (Grade:B)

The Case For Democracy : The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (2004) - Natan Sharansky (01/20/1948 -)    (Grade:A)

Edges: O Israel O Palestine (2005) - Leora Skolkin-Smith (1952-)    (Grade:B)

Baghdad Sketches (1933) - Freya Stark (05/09/1893-1993)    (Grade:A-)

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006) - Lawrence George Wright (08/02/1947 -)    (Grade:A+)