Middle East/North African Lit discussion

**This thread is under construction so there will be updates .

1- Reading about Arab spring
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2- Different themes project
Poll 1 : https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/4...

In our Different Themes Project, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here just won the first poll, with Khan Al-Khalili a close second. So we'll plan to read them starting February 2016.

For Reading About the Arab Spring, we will have a poll soon.

Finally, starting January, we'll have a poetry read! Please choose some poetry to read here (poll closes Nov. 20th). Thank you for reading with us!

Thanks to everyone for participating in our polls! Here is the lineup for early 2016. We look forward to the discussions!

(upcoming 15 Dec. 2015 - Feb. 1 2016 The Diary Of A Social Butterfly)

1 Jan. - 15 Feb. Midnight And Other Poems

15 Jan. - 28 Feb. A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution

1 Feb. - 15 Mar. I Was Born There, I Was Born Here

15 Feb. - 31 Mar. The Prophet

1 Apr. - 15 May The Hedgehog

15 Apr. - 31 May Khan Al-Khalili

If you voted for a book and you don't see it listed, just stay tuned as we add more throughout the year. Thanks for joining in!

I have returned to the fold - not reading or participating of late - big transition - I became a single woman once again ... don't express sympathy - I am pleased as punch with the situation.

I have also moved from Toronto, Ontario to Ashcroft, BC ... I am living with family - which is difficult - not used to noisy kids, household politics, etal ...

I am looking at House Trailers - actually thinking of blowing my savings and buying one for myself.

Its a beautiful small town in northern BC - top of the Fraser River - Ashcroft is actually a desert.

I will pop into to the books that have been listed and comment on anything I happen to have read.

Hello everyone ,

The poll was over for a while now , I am so sorry to be this late to announce the plan for our next reads , Here we go :

July 1st to end of August ...............................The Good Muslim


August 15 - October 15........... Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories

October 1st - end of November .................The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist

November 15 - January 15.....To the End of the Land


January - February 15 ...........I Want to Get Married!: One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not-Quite-Rights


February , March ......Birds of Amber

March 15 - May 15 .........The Silence and the Roar

Very interested in reading The Silence & the Roar. Plot is exactly up my literary street.

Niraj wrote: "Very interested in reading The Silence & the Roar. Plot is exactly up my literary street."

Great ! I hope we will reach a rich discussion :)

Do check out https://youtu.be/oSaVKHpz5jQ from Hoopoe fiction press. Salams.

we are sorry that we are behind schedule .
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ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "Do check out https://youtu.be/oSaVKHpz5jQ from Hoopoe fiction press. Salams."

Thanks for sharing :)

Hello, I have been in this group for some time but really didn't contribute much due to my hectic life. But I recently decided to check the emails I get from goodreads and I saw the email that there was a read coming up: The secret life of saeed and I found it really interesting and thought I should go ahead and fine time to read again. I bought the book and just got it, are we still reading it? and are we discussing it anywhere?

Barah wrote: "Hello, I have been in this group for some time but really didn't contribute much due to my hectic life. But I recently decided to check the emails I get from goodreads and I saw the email that ther..."

Hello Barah :)
We are discussing it in here :
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hi, I'm here, just a slow reader with lots of other books to read. I'm not active right now but hopefully by winter I will be.

We started reading and discussing Birds of Amber in here :
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...