WRC Suggested Reading Lists:

Arab Women/Muslim Women: A Selected Fiction Reading List

Arabian Jazz (Abu-Jaber) 1993

Beirut Blues (al-Shaykh) c1992, 1995

Beirut '75 (Samman) 1995

Beirut Nightmares (Samman) c1976, 1997

Blue Aubergine (al-Tahawy) 2002 Crescent (Abu-Jaber) 2003

Dear Shameless Death (Tekin) 2001

Distant View Of a Minaret (Rafaat) c1983,1987

Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (Djebar) c1985, 1993

Forbidden Vision (Bouraoui) c1991, 1995

A Gap In the Wall (Estivals) c1962, 1963

God Dies By the Nile (el-Saadawi) 1985

Golden Chariot (Bakr) 1997

The Homeland (Faqir) 1995

Hoops Of Fire: Fifty Years Of Fiction By Pakistani Women (Hussein) 1999

I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops (al-Shaykh) 1998

In a Voice Of Their Own: A Collection Of Stories By Iranian Women Written Since the Revolution Of 1979 (Lewis & Yazdanfar) 1996

In the Eye Of the Sun (Soueif) c1992, 1994

The Innocence Of the Devil (el Saadawi) c1994, 1998

Kartography (Shamsie) 2002

The Last Chapter (Abouzeid) 2000

Love In the Kingdom OF Oil (el Saadawi) 2001

The Map Of Love (Soueif) 1999

Memory In the Flesh (Mosteghanemi) 2003

Mothballs (Mamduh) 1997

My Grandmother's Cactus: Stories By Egyptian Women (Booth) 1991

On Air (Naqvi) 2000

Only In London (al-shaykh) 2001

The Open Door (al-Zayyat) c1960, 2000

The Owner Of the House (Zayyat) 1997

Pillars Of Salt (Faqir) 1997

The Quilt and Other Stories (Chughtai) 1994

A Runaway Wife (A1 Hijaz) 2004

Salt and Saffron (Shamsie) 2000

So Vast the Prison (Djebar) c1999, 2001

The Square Moon: Supernatural Tales (Samman) 1998

The Stone Of Laughter (Barakat) 1995

The Story of Zahra (al-Shaykh) c1986, 1995

Tantrika: Traveling the Road Of Divine Love (Nomani) 2003

The Tent (al-Tahawy) c1998,2003

The Tiller Of the Waters (Barakat) 2002

Veils: Short Stories (Rachlin) 1992

Voices Of Change: Short Stories By Saudi Arabian Women Writers (Bagader et al) 1998

West Of the Jordan (Halaby) 2003

A Wife For My Son (Ghalem) 1984

Wild Thorns (Khalifeh) c1985, 2003

The Wiles Of Men and Other Stories (Bakr) c1992,1993

Woman At Point Zero (el Saadawi) c1975,1983

A Woman Of Five Seasons (al-Trash) 2002

Women Of Algiers In Their Apartment (Djebar) 1992

Women Of Sand and Myrrh (al-Shaykh) 1989

Year Of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence (Abouzeid) 1989