Books

"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us." 

— W. H. Auden

 

Some of the books I have read and I recommend:

• Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 by Khaled El-Rouayheb
• Brutal Friendship - The West and the Arab Elite by Saïd K. Aburish
• Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States by Adam Hanieh
• Islam in Liberalism by Joseph Massad
• Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence by Karen Armstrong
• What is Islam? by Shahab Ahmed
• Desiring Arabs by Joseph Massad
• Egypt: Spies, Soldiers and Statesmen by Hazem Kandil
• Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
• Inside the Brotherhood by Hazem Kandil, 2015
• Debt, The IMF, and The world Bank, Éric Toussaint and Damien Millet, 2010
• Man's Fate (or La Condition Humaine) by Andre Malraux
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Three Penny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
• The Autumn of the Patriarch by G. G. Marquez
• The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas
• Life as Politics by Asef Bayat
• Chavs by Owen Jones
• Bloody Foreigners by Robert Winder
• Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Tin Drum by Günter Grass
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• Love in the Time of Cholera by G. G Marquez
• For Whom the Bells Toll by Ernest Hemingway
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• City of Sin: London and its Vices by Catharine Arnold
• Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
• The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn
• The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
• The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
• A People's History of England by A. L. Morton
• Merchant Capital and Islam by Mahmood Ibrahim
• The Age of Revolution by Eric Hobsbawm
• The Age of Capital by Eric Hobsbawm
• The Age of Empire by Eric Hobsbawm
• The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm
• The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 by E. H. Carr
• The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky
• The Sun in a Cloudy Day by Hanna Mina (Syrian novelist)
• East of the Mediterranean by Abd al-Rahman Munif
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Le Pain Nu by Mohamed Chokri (Moroccan writer)
• Overcoming Zionism by Joel Kovel 
• Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Invasion of Compulsory Sexual Morality (excerpts here) by Wilhelm Reich
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Myth of Zionism by John Rose
• Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
• The Enigma of Capital by David Harvey
• A Companion to Marx's Capital by David Harvey
• A Banquet for Seaweed by Haidar Haidar
• Capital Vol. 1 by Karl Marx
• The Richness of Life: the essential of Stephen Jay Gould by Stephen Jay Gould
• The People Want by Gilbert Achcar (a book about the Arab revolutions of 2011)
• Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
• Science and Civilisation in China by Joseph Needham (a summary volume)
• Debt, the IMF and the World Bank by Èric Toussaint and Damien Millet
• Inglorious Empire by Shashi Thahroor
• Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright
• Tormented Births - Passages to Modernity in Europe and the Middle East by Isam Al-khatib
• China Transformed by R. Bin Wong
• Guns, Steel and Germs by Jared Diamond
• Revolution without Revolutionaries by Asef Bayat
• The People Want by Gilbert Achcar
• The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura

Interested in reading: 

• A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad, Verso 2014
• The World Bank by Éric Toussaint
• British Imperialism: 1688-2000 by A.G. Hopkins and P. J. Cain
• Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu
• State, Power, Socialism by Nicos Poulantzas
• Iran Between Two Revolutions by Ervend Abrahamian
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen