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• Death is Hard Work – Khaled Khalifa  
• Woman at Point Zero – Nawal El Saadawi 
• The Yacoubian Building – Alaa Al Aswany 
• Islamic Exceptionalism: how the struggle over Islam is reshaping the world – Shadi Hamid 
• Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih 
• A Short History of Islamic thought – Fitzroy Morrissey 
• A History of the Arab Peoples – Albert Hourani 

Books that look at the ethics of studying the Middle East: 

• Orientalism – Edward Said  
• For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies – Robert Irwin  

• - Professor Asher Susser (FREE) 
• BULAQ - Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey (Reviews famous Arab authors and their books and is easy to understand)
• In Our Time – episodes on Ibn Khaldun, Al-Ghazali, Islamic Law and its Origins, and Sunni and Shia Islam 
• Almanac – The Oxford Middle East Podcast