Saturday, January 11, 2020

Middle Eastern Reading 2020 TBR

This is a place I wanted to list the books I'm thinking about or know about for my focus on the Middle East in 2020. I would love more recommendations, particularly of native authors, translated into English.

Bahrain   
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 Bride
To 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 Houses
To 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 Know
To 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 Sabbagh
To read: Temporary People

Yemen
Already read: Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Could read: Henna House by Nomi Eve

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

2 comments:

  1. 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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    1. I'm bad at monitoring my blog comments so I'm just now seeing this but thank you!!

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