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Fish Creek Library Calgary Public Library's "Islam & the Middle East"

A list of books relating to the Middle East—history, culture, foreign relations, past and present
1. Orientalism (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Edward W. Said
  
2. Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents
by Robert Irwin
  
3. Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran
by Jason Elliot
  
4. In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
by Tariq Ramadan
  
5. American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion
by Paul M. Barrett
  
6. The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
by Tariq Ali
  
7. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
  
8. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
  
9. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
by Marjane Satrapi
  
10. Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  
11. The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  
12. Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America And American in Iran
by Azadeh Moaveni
  
13. Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
by Roya Hakakian
  
14. A History of the Modern Middle East
by William L. Cleveland
  
15. The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
  
16. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
by Gilles Kepel
  
17. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
by Robert Fisk
  
18. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
by Bernard Lewis
  
19. Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space
by John R. Bowen
  
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Created by Fish Creek Library Calgary Public Library on Mar 15, 2007.