Some of Robert Azzi’s Favorite Post Colonial Fiction (not exclusively Muslim World):
Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Shadow of the Pomegranate Tree – Tariq Ali
A Golden Age – Tahmima Anam
The Stone of Laughter – Hoda Barakat
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
Algerian White – Assia Djebar
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Gate of the Sun – Elias Khoury
Samarkand – Amin Maalouf
Cairo Trilogy – Naguib Mahfouz
Palace Walk
Palace of Desire
Sugar Street
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen
My Name Is Red – Orhan Pamuk
Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
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Non-Fiction:
Preferred Qur’an Translation: The Message of the Qur’an, translated by Muhammad Asad
http://muhammad-asad.com/Message-of-Quran.pdf
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate – Leila Ahmed
Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam & the European Enlightenment – Alexander Bevilacqua
Destiny Disrupted – Tamim Ansary
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu – Joshua Hammer
Road to Mecca – Muhammad Asad
No god but God – Reza Aslan
The Butterfly’s Burden – Mahmoud Darwish
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World – Peter Frankopan
A Peace to End all Peace – David Fromkin
ISIS: A History – Fawaz Gerges
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine – Rashid Khalidi
Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the ME – Rashid Khalidi
Crusades Through Arab Eyes – Amin Maalouf
Fragrance of Faith – Jamal Rahman
Orientalism – Edward Said
Approaching the Qur’an – Michael Sells
A Mountainous Journey – Fadwa Tuqan
Any poetry by Maram al-Masri
Islam – Huston Smith – a simple (western) introduction to Islam: (post 9/11 edition)
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Some of Robert Azzi’s favorite children’s books, many of which have been used in presentations:
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq – Jeanette Winter
The Silly Chicken – Idries Shah and Jeff Jackson
Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words – Karen Abouraya and L.C. Wheatley
A Child’s Collection of Rumi – Twelve Stories from The Masnavi Adapted for Young Minds
Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali – Khephra Burns
The Wise Fool: Fables from the Islamic World – Shahrukh Husain and Micha Archer
The Grand Mosque of Paris – Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland Desaix
Razia’s Ray of Hope – Elizabeth Suneby and Suana Verelst
Lebanon 1, 2, 3 – Marijean Boueri
What about Me? – Ed Young
Sitti’s Secrets – Naomi Shihab Nye
Habibi – Naomi Shihab Nye
Muhammad – Demi
Saladin – Diane Stanley
Sami and the Time of the Troubles – Florence Parry Heide
Iblis – Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book – Bashi Golbarg
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World – Frankopan. Illustrated version for older children.
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