Nicole - A Cottage Witch | Reading books from the Middle East & North Africa @NicoleACottageWitch | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
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Middle East/North African Lit Goodreads Group:
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Books:

1. Palestine
Susan Abulhawa - Mornings in Jenin

2. MENA History
Madawi Al-Rashid - A History of Saudi Arabia

3. Empowering Women
Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran

4. Iraq

5 Al Sham (Lebanon, Jordan, Syria)
Elias Khoury - Gate of the Sun (Lebanon)

6. Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE)
✓Abdulkader Al-Guneid - Prison Time in Sana'a (Yemen)
Sarah A. Al Shafal - Yummah (Bahrain)
Sophia Al-Maria - The Girl Who Fell to Earth (Qatar)
✓Manal Al-Sharif - Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

7. The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania)
Yasmina Khadra - The Swallows of Kabul (Algeria)
Hisham Matar - The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (Libya)
Gisele Halimi - Une farouche liberté (Tunisia)

8. Egypt

9. Turkey

10. Iran
Nina Ansary - Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran

11. Sudan or Horn of Africa (Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea)
Mouna-Hodan Ahmed - LES ENFANTS DU KHAT (Djibouti)

12. Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) or Afghanistan or Pakistan
Malalai Joya - A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
Ak Welsapar - The Tale of Aypi (Turkmenistan)
Gulsifat Shahidi - The City Where Dreams Come True (Tajikistan)
Mukhamet Shai︠a︡khmetov - The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
Malala Yousafzai - Moi, Malala, je lutte pour l'éducation et je résiste aux talibans