Bahrain
To read: The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell (the 1 Bahraini author translated into English has super bad reviews)
To read: The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell (the 1 Bahraini author translated into English has super bad reviews)
Cyprus
To read: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Iran
Already read: Reading Lolita in Tehran, Persepolis, The Blindfold Horse, Suvashun, The Temporary BrideTo read: The Blood of Flowers, My Uncle Napoleon, Persian Girls, Moon Brow
Iraq
Already read: Fifteen Iraqi Poets To read: Without an Alphabet, Without a Face; The Corpse Exhibition, Nostalgia My Enemy; Frankenstein in Baghdad, The Baghdad Eucharist
Israel
Already read: Sadness is a White Bird, Some Day, The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust, Second Person Singular
Jordan
Already read: Salt HousesTo read: Inside the Night
Kuwait
Lebanon
Already read: Pearls on a Branch, Unnecessary Woman
Oman
To read: Celestial Bodies
Palestine, Gaza Strip, West Bank
Already read: Sadness is a White Bird To read: A Woman is No Man, A River Dies of Thirst, The Blue Between Sky and Water, Time of White Horses, Wild Thorns, Rain Inside, Inside the Night
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Already read: Habibi, The Wrong End of the Table, A Sinner in Mecca,
Syria
Already read: No Knives in the Kitchens of this City, A Tree Whose Name I Don’t KnowTo read: The Crossing by Samar Yazbek
Turkey
Already read: so many!
UAE
Already read: The Dog by Joseph O’Neill, Minutes from Miracle City by Omar SabbaghTo read: Temporary People
Yemen
Already read: Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Could read: Henna House by Nomi EveAlready read: Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Kurdistan and all other border places
Already read: A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know, To read: stuff from Red Emmas, Women from a Non-State Nation, I Stared at the Night of the City
Please add The Confusion of Languages to your list! It's by an American author who lived in the Middle East and is set in Jordan; I highly recommend it.
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