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Posts tagged with ‘Middle East’
SEXUAL POLITICS IN the Arab world, presented in depth (via years of interviews), with compassion, with wit. B PLUS
SEX AND THE CITADEL
Pantheon
2013
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Egypt, Feminism and Womanism, Middle East, Non-Fiction, Politics, Public Policy, Sexuality, Social and Cultural Commentary
LOVELY, SPARE PROSE tells the story of a gay Moroccan man wrestling with the ideas of Arab identity, culture.
Grade: B PLUS
AN ARAB MELANCHOLIA
Semiotext(e)/Smart Art
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Egypt, LGBTQ Interest, Middle East, Morocco, Novels
THE “GOLDEN AGE” 8th-century Islamic empire of Harun al-Rashid, and its impact on today’s world. Enlightening!
Grade: SOLID B
THE CALIPH'S SPLENDOR: ISLAM AND THE WEST IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF BAGHDAD
Simon and Schuster
2012
Tags: Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid, History, Islam, Middle East, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews