Librarians are the Superheroes. Sustained Read Buy on Amazon I’m warning you right off the top: I’m not a big fan of historical fiction. I used to read it for the exact same reason that many of you do: so I could learn about other places and cultures. After a while, however, I started to …
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Arab Festival T-shirt SEATTLE 2007. I wasn’t even there, But wear this shirt proudly all the time. Since when Arab Tragedy only? No! Forgetting spread tables, smoky eggplant, tiny spinach pies, punctuating pomegranate seeds, neat salmon in the center of each rectangle of harissa, since when we put down embroideries, joy, birth certificates of stitching …
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The Middle East is a complicated place, full of contradictions. So is Craig Thompson’s Habibi. Buy on Amazon Ever since I moved back from the Middle East a few months ago, I have been excited about rereading Habibi. I first read it the summer after my first year there. Because the book is so big …
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Buy on Amazon Buy on Amazon Buy on Amazon Buy on Amazon Note: The “Holy Land” is made up of the countries that are currently known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the State of Israel, and Palestine. Outcasts United, by Warren St. John (creative nonfiction, new journalism) I cannot remember how I …
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