Category: Middle East

August 15, 2011

Sacred Trash by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole ** (of 4)

All the critics have raved about this recounting of a collection of a thousand years of written documents crammed in a synagogue vault in Cairo,...

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July 15, 2011

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Jennifer Steil * (of 4)

If a book is this bad I ordinarily just leave it off my list, but this one deserves to be panned, partly because it received...

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May 1, 2011

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff **** (of 4)

Stacy Schiff doesn’t just bring the most powerful woman in history to life, she brings her readers on location. We face every decision Cleopatra contends...

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July 14, 2010

Nineteen forty-eight by Benny Morris

A revisionist history of the first Arab-Israeli War. In Pelletier Library.

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June 22, 2010

Prisoners by Jeffrey Goldberg *** (of 4)

Goldberg describes himself as a Zionist, former peace-nik, with an insatiable wish to meet people who want to kill him because he is Jewish. As...

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June 22, 2010

O Jerusalem by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre **** (of 4)

Very engaging history of Israel war for independence. I read it in 2001 before I was keeping this book blog.

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June 22, 2010

Martyr’s Crossing, by Amy Wilentz ** (of 4)

Not great writing, but very informative about the checkpoints in Middle East before the Second Intifada made them even worse.

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June 21, 2010

Beaufort by Ron Leshem **** (of 4)

Erez, a patriotic IDF commander of 13 fresh recruits, is sent to Lebanon in the late 90s to protect Israel’s northern border from Hezbollah rocket...

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June 21, 2010

Six Days of War by Michael Oren *** (of 4)

A very thorough, detailed and extremely informative account of the 1967 Six day war in the Middle East.

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June 21, 2010

Shia Revival by Vali Nasr *** (of 4)

The first two chapters were so densely packed with Islamic history I am almost gave up on the book, but am so glad I didn’t....

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