In honor of the book The Hakawati, here are some books recommended for California teens on the Middle East. Enjoy!
1
al-Windawi, Thura
Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq
2
Baru
Road to America
3
Ben Jelloun, Tahar
Corruption
4
Ben Jelloun, Tahar
Sacred Night, The
5
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
Conch Bearer: A Novel, The
6
Dumas, Firoozeh
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America
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Hidier, Tanuja Desai
Born Confused
8
Hosseini, Khaled
Kite Runner, The
9
Latifah
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story
10
Napoli, Donna Jo
Beast
11
Nye, Naomi Shihab
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
12
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Habibi
13
Satrapi, Marjane
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
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