Middle Eastern literature

[Anonymous]

Looking for recommendations of authors or books.
I have read and enjoyed:
Naguib Mahfouz
Khaled Hossein
Orhan Pamuk

[Anonymous]

Exit West
Beekeeper of Aleppo
A Woman is No Man (this one takes place in America)

[Anonymous]

Rumi

[Anonymous]

Khalee Hosseini is Afghan, not middle eastern.

[Anonymous]

I enjoyed An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine and the Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.

Would you include Salmon Rushdie?

[Anonymous]

Read the Shanameh. It's seminal

[Anonymous]

The Bullet Collection- patricia sarrafian ward

[Anonymous]

The Arsonists’ City

[Anonymous]

The Stationary Shop

[Anonymous]

I really liked the Golem and the Jinni - it is part Jewish and part Arabic folklore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I enjoyed An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine and the Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.

Would you include Salmon Rushdie?

No, he’s Indian not Middle Eastern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rumi

He was Persian not Arab

[Anonymous]

Why Middle Eastern?

I’ve loved everything I’ve read by Abdulrazak Gurnah. If you’re looking for quality literature, themes of colonialism, slavery, aging Islamic cultures, you will find it here. But he is Tanzanian, from Zanzibar. If you liked Orham Pamuk and Naghiub Mahfouz, you will want to add Gurnah to your list.

[Anonymous]

Diana Abu-Jaber

Not sure if you are looking for fantasy, but if so, then S.A Chakraborty's City of Brass is excellent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rumi

He was Persian not Arab

Persia / Iran were included in classes I took on the Middle East in College. It was basically North Africa in the West to the Indian border in the East.