Our Suggested Course Texts pages list titles intended for classroom use. For a complete list of our titles in Middle Eastern studies, go to our general Middle Eastern studies page.
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The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher
Translated and edited by Douglas Scott Brookes
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Islamism in the Shadow of al-Qaeda
By François Burgat
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Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas
By Yaron Peleg
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North Africa
By Phillip C. Naylor
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A Young Palestinian's Diary, 1941-1945
Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Kimberly Katz
Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness
By Joseph J. Hobbs
So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico
By Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp
Women and Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt
By Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot
Deconstructing the American Mosque
By Akel Ismail Kahera
Imagining the Turkish House
By Carel Bertram
Asmahan's Secrets
By Sherifa Zuhur
Daughter of Damascus
By Siham Tergeman
Doctor Mary in Arabia
By Mary Bruins Allison
Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur
By Nissim Rejwan
The Last Jews in Baghdad
By Nissim Rejwan
Outsider in the Promised Land
By Nissim Rejwan
Remembering Childhood in the Middle East
Collected and edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Return to Childhood
By Leila Abouzeid
The Sheltered Quarter
By Hamza Bogary
Asmahan's Secrets
By Sherifa Zuhur
Danger Pay
By Carol Spencer Mitchell
"Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film
By Tim Jon Semmerling
Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen
By Yosefa Loshitzky
Pyramids and Nightclubs
By L. L. Wynn
The Sinai
By Ned Greenwood
Water in the Middle East
By Hussein A. Amery and Aaron Wolf
Science in Medieval Islam
By Howard R. Turner
Science in the Medieval World
By Sa`id al-Andalusi
Modern Hebrew for Beginners
By Esther Raizen
Modern Hebrew for Intermediate Students
By Esther Raizen
Children of the Waters
By Ibtihal Salem
The Director and Other Stories from Morocco
By Leila Abouzeid
Folktales from Syria
Collected by Samir Tahhan
Fortune Told in Blood
By Davud Ghaffarzadegan
Giving Voice to Stones
By Barbara McKean Parmenter
In a Persian Mirror
By M.R. Ghanoonparvar
I've Learned Some Things
By Ataol Behramoğlu
No Rattling of Sabers
Translation and introduction by Esther Raizen
Orpheus
By Nazli Eray
Passage to Dusk
By Rashid al-Daif
Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies
By Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Satan's Stones
By Moniru Ravanipur
The Sheltered Quarter
By Hamza Bogary
Siraaj
By Radwa Ashour
They Die Strangers
By Mohammad Abdul-Wali
The Waiting List
By Daisy Al-Amir
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman
By Mohja Kahf
Whatever Happened to Antara?
By Walid Ikhlassi
Women on a Journey
By Haifa Zangana
Year of the Elephant
By Leila Abouzeid
Asmahan's Secrets
By Sherifa Zuhur
The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual
By Shemeem Burney Abbas
Men and Popular Music in Algeria
By Marc Schade-Poulsen
"A Trade like Any Other"
By Karin van Nieuwkerk
The Black Death in Egypt and England
By Stuart J. Borsch
Danger Pay
By Carol Spencer Mitchell
The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism
By Michael Provence
Islam's Political Culture
By Nasim Ahmad Jawed
Israeli and Palestinian Postcards
By Tim Jon Semmerling
Nationalist Voices in Jordan
By Betty S. Anderson
Palestinians Born in Exile
By Juliane Hammer
Reading Palestine
By Ami Ayalon
Saddam's War of Words
By Jerry Mark Long
Talk of Darkness
By Fatna El Bouih
"Believing Women" in Islam
By Asma Barlas
Chapters on Marriage and Divorce
Translated with introduction and notes by Susan A. Spectorsky
Deconstructing the American Mosque
By Akel Ismail Kahera
The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual
By Shemeem Burney Abbas
Islam
By Emory C. Bogle
Islamism and Modernism
By Farhang Rajaee
The Last Jews in Baghdad
By Nissim Rejwan
Realm of the Saint
By Vincent J. Cornell
The Word of Islam
Edited by John Alden Williams
Asmahan's Secrets
By Sherifa Zuhur
"Believing Women" in Islam
By Asma Barlas
Daughter of Damascus
By Siham Tergeman
The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual
By Shemeem Burney Abbas
The Kin Who Count
By Margaret L. Meriwether
Planning the Family in Egypt
By Kamran Asdar Ali
Talk of Darkness
By Fatna El Bouih
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman
By Mohja Kahf
Women and Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt
By Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot
Women on a Journey
By Haifa Zangana
Year of the Elephant
By Leila Abouzeid