Category: Middle East

June 18, 2010

Persepolis 1 by Marjane Satrapi *** (of 4)

A memoir in graphic novel form of growing up under Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. It’s a good introduction to the history of the era and...

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June 18, 2010

A Peace to end all Peace by David Fromkin *** (of 4)

An unbelievably informative book about the transformation of the Ottoman Empire through World War I into the colonial prizes carved up by Western Europe into...

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June 18, 2010

O Jerusalem by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

Very engaging history of Israel war for independence.

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June 18, 2010

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright **** (of 4)

You know at the beginning the story will end with planes flying into the World Trade Center, but Wright’s recounting makes the book a suspenseful...

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April 29, 2010

Snow by Orhan Pamuk ** (of 4)

Ostensibly there is a plot based on the return of a Turkish exile to his small eastern hometown where the national debate about the politicization...

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April 29, 2010

Red Sea by Emily Benedek *** (of 4)

A well-researched post 9/11 thriller with Middle Eastern jihadists sending dirty nuclear bombs toward American ports while being hunted down by an Israeli secret agent,...

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April 29, 2010

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz *** (of 4)

A larger-than-life father, a household dictator, terrifies his 1920s Cairo household into submitting to his divine will. Divine, in the sense, that his actions are...

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February 12, 2010