Born Again Egyptian: April 2011

My top 20 list - Books by Arab Women Writers

A Balcony over Fakihani- Liyana Badr
A Border Passage - Leila Ahmed
A Sister to Scheherazade - Assia Djebar
Absent - Betool Khedairi
Baghdad Diaries - Nuha Al Radi
Chaos of the Senses - Ahlam Mostaghanemi
Distant View of a Minaret - Alifa Rifaat
Dreams of Trespass - Fatima Mernissi
Final Night - Buthaynah Nasiri
Granada - Radwa Ashour
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops - Hanan alShaykh
In the Eye of the Sun - Ahdaf Soueif
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow - Faiza Guene
Naftalene - Alia Mamdouh
Opening the Gate - Margot Badran
Pillars of Salt - Fadia Faqir
Sitt Marie Rose - Etel Adnan
The Search for Fatima - Ghada Karmi
The Search: Personal Papers - Latifah Zayyat
The Wiles of Men - Salwa Bakr

My top 20 list - Political Books in Eglish

Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers - Arundhati Roy
Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict - Norman G. Finklestein
Inside Egypt - John R. Bradley
Mezzaterra - Ahdaf Soueif
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic - Chalmers Johnson
Orientalism - Edward Said
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid - Jimmy Carter
Pretensions to Empire - Lewis H. Lapham
Race Matters - Cornel West
Shock Doctrine - Noami Klein
Silent No More - Paul Findley
Sowing Crisis - Rashid Khalidi
Standing Up To The Madness - Amy Goodman
The clash of Fundamentalisms - Tariq Ali
The Darker Nations - Vijay Prashad
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy - Stephen M. Walt, John J. Mearsheimer
The Limits of Power - Andrew Bacevich
The Question of Palestine- Edward Said