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5 Books Highlighting the Arab & Arab American Experience

…h classic stories of the Middle East. Read an excerpt | Buy the book       Orientalism by Edward W. Said A groundbreaking critique of the West’s historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. Buy the book       Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this “fable-like historical novel of yo…

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Time's Top 100 Nonfiction Book List Features Heartbreaking Work, Civil War, and More

…Caro The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Orientalism by Edward Said In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs The Civil War (Vol. 2, Vol 3) by Shelby Foote Dispatch…

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