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F RAWI
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F RAWI
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2018. Oneworld
252 pages ; 23 cm
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F RAWI
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F RAWI
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Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbors in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the international sanctions bite and friends begin to flee the country,...
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955.053 GHA
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955.053 GHA
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2020. Henry Holt and Company
First edition.
xvii, 377 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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955.053 GHA
1 available
955.053 GHA
1 available
[2020] HighBridge Audio
Unabridged.
13 audio discs (16 hr., 33 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The bestselling author of The Secretary tells the gripping story of the real roots of the Sunni-Shia conflict in Middle East in the 1979 Iran Revolution that changed the region forever"--
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956.9104 MIN
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956.9104 MIN
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2020. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition.
197 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
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956.9104 MIN
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956.9104 MIN
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2020 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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2021. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
229 pages (large print) : illustrations, portraits, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm.
Description
"Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years, no one entered or left, and aid was blocked. Every single day, bombs fell on this place--a place of homes and families, schools and children, now emptied and broken into bits. And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble....
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2021. Bloomsbury Publishing
375 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Description
"From the expert who understands both sides of one of the world's most complex, controversial conflicts, a modern-day Guide for the Perplexed -- a primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian issue." --
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2017. MCD/Farrar, Straur, and Giroux
First edition.
312 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A first novel that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report could, and follows the lives of several characters as the movement evolves"--
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F MCCLOSKEY
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F MCCLOSKEY
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[2021] W.W. Norton & Company
First edition.
419 pages : map ; 24 cm
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F MCCLOSKEY
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F MCCLOSKEY
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2021 W. W. Norton & Company
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 W. W. Norton & Company
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
Description
"A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in war-ravaged Damascus to hunt for a killer. CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, supercharging Haddad's recruitment and creating unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy. But the cat-and-mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail...
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2017. Simon & Schuster
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
x, 289 pages ; 24 cm
[2017] Simon & Schuster Audio
Unabridged.
8 audio discs (approximately 630 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is a memoir about living, loving, dreaming, daring, and driving while female -- in a country where it's dangerous to do all of the above. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year strict fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was religious radical, melting her brother's boy band CDs in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. But what a difference an education can make....
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956.910423 LEM
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956.910423 LEM
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2021. Penguin Press
xxxi, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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956.910423 LEM
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956.910423 LEM
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2021 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Penguin Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
2021 Penguin Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. And yet that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of. The Islamic State by then had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around...
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Series
Eye of Isis volume 1
2018. Head of Zeus
xv, 254 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
Alexandria, 47 BC. Cleopatra shares the throne with her brother Ptolemy under the auspices of Julius Caesar, by whom Cleopatra is heavily pregnant. A shipment of new coins meant to reset the shaky Egyptian economy has been stolen and the Queen's Eye has been murdered, so Queen Cleopatra turns to childhood friend Tetisheri to find the missing shipment and bring the murderer to justice.
10) Disoriental
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F DJAVADI
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F DJAVADI
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2018. Europa Editions
339 pages ; 23 cm
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F DJAVADI
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F DJAVADI
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eBook
2018 Europa Editions
Libby/OverDrive
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2018 Europa Editions
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
Description
"Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including...
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F ABU-JABER
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F ABU-JABER
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[2022] W. W. Norton & Company
First Edition.
x, 300 pages ; 24 cm
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F ABU-JABER
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F ABU-JABER
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[2022] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (approximately 660 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
"A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Amani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the...
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[2018] Penguin Books
281 pages ; 20 cm
Description
After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster.
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2023. John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
First Kensington trade paperback edition.
370 pages ; 21 cm
[2023] Highbridge Audio
Unabridged.
10 audio discs (12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2023. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
611 pages (large print) ; 21 cm
Description
"Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished. Caught in the middle is their mother, Shireen, torn between her fierce love...
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[2018] Spiegel & Grau
First edition.
270 pages ; 22 cm
Available Online
2018 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
Description
"Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family"--Amazon.com.
15) The liar
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F GUNDAR-GOSHEN
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F GUNDAR-GOSHEN
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2019. Little, Brown and Company
First North American edition.
278 pages ; 25 cm
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F GUNDAR-GOSHEN
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F GUNDAR-GOSHEN
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©2019. Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (8 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
From the award-winning author of Waking Lions comes a novel about how one lie can change everything, when a teenaged girl's scream--and the false assumption that comes from it--radiates through a street, a neighborhood, and a city, and turns lives upside down.
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2017. Scribner
First Scribner hardcover edition.
323 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
After being denied permission to join her husband in America, an Iraqi refugee is trapped in Cairo during the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and must rely on a foolhardy attorney with feelings for her and a not entirely legal plan to get her out.
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[2018] Touchstone
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
360 pages : maps ; 24 cm
[2018] Simon & Schuster Audio
Unabridged.
10 audio discs (approximately 12 hours, 30 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
2018 Atria Books
Libby/OverDrive
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
2018 Atria Books
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father's spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story--the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing,...
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2015. Other Press
143 pages ; 22 cm
2015 Other Press
Libby/OverDrive
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2015 Other Press
Libby/OverDrive
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Description
"This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name--Musa--and...
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338.7 EGG
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338.7 EGG
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2018. Alfred A. Knopf
First edition.
xiii, 327 pages : map ; 23 cm
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338.7 EGG
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338.7 EGG
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[2018] Penguin Random House
Unabridged.
7 audio discs (approximately 8 hours, 30 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
2018 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2018 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
[2018] Random House Large Print
Large print edition.
432 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Description
"From bestselling author Dave Eggers, the incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral homeland to tour...
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F KAPLAN
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F KAPLAN
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[2020] Melville House
309 pages ; 24 cm
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F KAPLAN
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F KAPLAN
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Description
A suspenseful thriller based on true events follows the experiences of an American diplomat in Tehran who becomes a firsthand witness to the military violence, religious extremes, and political machinations of the Iranian Revolution.