Reading List

Click on these books to purchase them at Amazon.com.

The Arab World: Forty Years of Change by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Robert A. Fernea

Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh

Kingdom of the Film Stars : Journey into Jordan by Annie Caulfield

Pillars of Salt: A Novel by Fadia Faqir

Arab Folktales. by Inea Bushnaq

Arab and Jew, Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. by David K. Shipler

Peace & It's Discontents, Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process by Edward W. Said

Jerusalem : Battlegrounds of Memory by Amos Elon

Nine Parts of Desire, Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks

"In Search of Fatima, A Palestinian Story" by Ghada Karmi, pub: Verso, New York, 2004 ISBN: 1-85984-561-4

West of Jordan - Laila Halaby
ISBN 0-8070-8359-3

The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology - Nathalie Handal
ISBN 1-56656-374-7

The Arabs by Peter Mansield

Journey through Jordan by Mohammed Amin

Spectrum Guide: Jordan

My Enemy, My Self by Yoram Binur

The Arabs; Journeys Beyond the Mirage by David Lamb

Jordan Revealed by Anthony King

See our Children's Reading List, and our general Reading List for Islam and the Middle East.