Book Picks 2013: Recommended Reading from Sampsonia Way Columnists
by Sampsonia Way / December 18, 2013 / No comments
In light of the holiday season, Sampsonia Way asked our columnists for their 2013 reading recommendations. They chose books that have inspired, influenced, or enriched them. Click on the book to purchase it on Amazon.com.
Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society
by Fatima Mernisiss
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Recommended by Bina Shah
Cuba (Latin America in Focus)
edited by Ted A. Henken, Miriam Celaya, and Dimas Castellanos
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Recommended by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Development Aid Confronts Politics: The Almost Revolution
by Thomas Carothers and Diane de Gramont
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Recommended by Mesfin Negash
Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today
by Yoani Sanchez
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Recommended by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Homecoming : Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories
selected and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
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Recommended by Hamdy El-Gazzar
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Scott Anderson
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Recommended by Israel Centeno
The Literary Atlas of Cairo: One Hundred Years on the Streets of the City
by Samia Mehrez
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Recommended by Hamdy El-Gazzar
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
by Mancur Olson
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Recommended by Mesfin Negash
A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
by Neil Faulkner
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Recommended by Tarık Günersel
My Life, My Vision for the Oromo and Other Peoples of Ethiopia
by Bulcha Demeska
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Recommended by Mesfin Negash
New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era, Third Edition
by Mary Kaldor
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Recommended by Mesfin Negash
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
by Shereen El-Feki
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Recommended by Bina Shah
The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
by Akbar Ahmed
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Recommended by Bina Shah
Umar Ibn Al-Farid: Sufi Verse, Saintly Life
by Th. Emil Homerin
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Recommended by Hamdy El-Gazzar
