Review of Books on Islam &

Middle East

The following books are currently reviewed by John Paul Jones on Amazon.com

 

Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan by Girardet

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

Fima by Amos Oz

I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti

Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody by Sinan Antoon

Osama bin Laden by Michael Scheuer

Crowning Anguish by Taj A-Saltanah

The Fearful Void by Geoffrey Moorhouse

L'incendie by Mohammed Dib

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

Engaging the Muslim World by Juan Cole

The Crusade Thorough Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf

The Minaret of Djam by Freya Stark

Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid

Covering Islam by Edward Said

A Diamond in the Desert - Abu Dhabi

Expats by James Dickey

Standard Operating Procedure by Philip Gourevitch

The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst

Visions of the Nomad by Wilfred Thesiger

Every Man in this Village is a Liar by Megan K. Stack

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta by Ross E. Dunn

The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier

Services Speciaux Algerie 1955-1957 by General Aussaresses

Fatal Embrace by Mark Braverman

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk

Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani

War by Sebastian Junger

The Patience Stone by Atiq A. Rahimi

Adieu mon mere, adieu mon coeur by Jules Roy

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan

Writing in the Dark by David Grossman

Memoire de l'Afghanistan by Roland and Sabrina Michaud

Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays by Edward Said

Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright

Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman

The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story by Hanan Al-Shaykh

Memoires barbares by Jules Roy

The Yellow Wind by David Grossman

L'Utopie perdue: Israel, une histoire personnelle by Goran Rosenberg

The Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Bell

All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer

The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

Impressions of Yemen by Pascal and Maria Marechaux

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin

The Attack by Yasmina Khadra

Afghanistan by Roland and Sabrina Michaud

The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger

La Route de l'Encens by Pascal and Maria Marechaux with Dominique Champault

The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut by Freya Stark

In the Land of Israel by Amos Oz

Guilty - Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9-11 by Jack G. Shaheen

A Savage War of Peace - Algeria (1954-1962) by Alistair Horne

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege by Amira Hass

Caravans to Tartary by Roland Michaud

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin

Arabia Felix by Pascal Marechaux

The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End by Peter Galbraith

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Fiasco by Thomas Ricks

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf