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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Geraldine Brooks

Later that year the king’s democratic initiative bore fruit in an election that left Islamic hard-liners dominating the Parliament. Just before the election, a delegation of liberal-minded Jordanians had come ...
( Category: Women in Islam March 25,2014 )
The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Matt Taibbi

1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars… 5 ...
( Category: Iraq March 25,2014 )
Middle East by Anthony Ham
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Anthony Ham

* * * GIVING AMMAN A FACELIFT Amman is on the rise, with several high-profile construction projects set to change the face of the city. Here are two initiatives that ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Albert Hourani

PART IV THE AGE OF EUROPEAN EMPIRES (1800–1939) The nineteenth century was the age when Europe dominated the world. The growth of large-scale factory production and the changes in methods ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The Knowledge of Life by Witness Lee
mobi, epub |eng | 1988-06-21 | Author:Witness Lee

Chapter Eleven THE INWARD KNOWLEDGE We shall now see the eleventh main point concerning life, which is the inward knowledge, or the knowing of God by the inward law of ...
( Category: Inspirational March 25,2014 )
In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Amitav Ghosh

14 WITH THE COMING of winter the rains began and soon the lanes of Nashawy were knee-deep in cold, sticky mud and nobody ventured out of their houses if they ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

He set out alone for a while and before long, at the corner of Canal and Scott, he encountered a small boat. It was a military craft, with three men ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
Prayers for Bobby
mobi |eng | 1995-07-15 | Author:Leroy Aarons

I’m becoming incredibly vain. I love it when people compliment me, and it happens a lot. I love love love it. Is that wrong? I deserve it. I work hard ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 25,2014 )
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez & Kristin Ohlson
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Deborah Rodriguez & Kristin Ohlson [Rodriguez, Deborah & Ohlson, Kristin]

AFTER I LIT MY CIGARETTE, I waved the match around in the air to put it out, but it continued to flame. So I touched it to a bead of ...
( Category: Afghanistan March 25,2014 )
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

sneer. We quote a professor summing up: “A study of Teach for America tells us more about the ideological, even psychological needs of today’s middle-class white and minority youth than ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran by Majd Hooman
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Majd, Hooman [Majd, Hooman]

Many Iranians have simply given up on the system but are unwilling to do anything about it, fatalistically resigned to a political order they mostly cannot abide. Fatalism, a strong ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Graeme Simsion

eighteen I texted Gene from the taxi. It was 1:08 a.m., but he had left the ball at the same time as I did and had further to travel. Urgent: ...
( Category: Humorous March 24,2014 )

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