Dubai Reading List
This Peace Corps Volunteer named Aaron must have a good friend at Google because he got his blog mentioned on the Blogger log-in to update blogs. His blog is cool and gave me the idea to post the books I have read this fall. No particular reason for this, just thought people might be interested:
The Road to Hell by Michael Maren
My Life and Travels by Wilfred Thesiger
The United Arab Emirates by Christopher Davidson
Orientalism by Edward Said
Hamas: A Beginners Guide by Khaled Hroub
Respected Sir by Naguib Mahfouz
From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates by Frauke Heard-Bey
Dubai by Robin Moore
After Jihad by Noah Feldman
Saturday by Ian McEwan
In The Rose Garden of the Martyrs by Christopher de Bellaigue
Contending Visions of the Middle East by Zachary Lockman
Global Networks, Linked Cities by Saskia Sassen
The Road to Hell by Michael Maren
My Life and Travels by Wilfred Thesiger
The United Arab Emirates by Christopher Davidson
Orientalism by Edward Said
Hamas: A Beginners Guide by Khaled Hroub
Respected Sir by Naguib Mahfouz
From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates by Frauke Heard-Bey
Dubai by Robin Moore
After Jihad by Noah Feldman
Saturday by Ian McEwan
In The Rose Garden of the Martyrs by Christopher de Bellaigue
Contending Visions of the Middle East by Zachary Lockman
Global Networks, Linked Cities by Saskia Sassen
posted by Pearl of Dubai at 7:56 PM
5 Comments:
How did you find Dubai by Robin Moore? I think it's a very useful work for anyone wanting to understand how things operate here. Alhough I read it after being here for five years, so while it was enjoyable I didn't really learn anything new. The "hero" was immensely irritating too.
It was awesome, thank you so much for the suggestion. It is very useful and really captures a certain mood of the place.
The toot blogging aggregator recently accepted a blogger is Sudan who writes Amanda in South Sudan.
On Friday 22nd September she wrote a post which also references The Road to Hell and Michael Maren commented in the Comments section.
NZM, it's funny you mention that b/c that is the blog where I originally learned about the book!
Wells of Memory by Easa Saleh al-Gurg
The Wink of the Mona Lisa and other short stories by Muhammad al-Murr
From Rags to Riches by Mohammed al-Fahim, and Mother Without A Mask by Patricia Holton (ok, so they're about Abu Dhabi, but whatever...)
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