For Further Reading: Culture and Conflict

A supplement to the May 2012 issue of WLT: further reading on Iran, Iraq, and Palestine.

Iran

Simin Daneshvar, Savushun: A Novel about Modern Iran, tr. M. R. Ghanoonparvar (Mage, 1991).

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Missing Soluch, tr. Kamran Rastegar (Melville House, 2007). 

Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope, tr. Azadeh Moaveni (Random House, 2006).

Shahriar Mandanipour, Censoring an Iranian Love Story, tr. Sara Khalili (Knopf, 2009).

Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, (Random House, 2003).

Shahrnush Parsipur, Women without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran, tr. Kamran Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet (Feminist Press, 2004).

Iraj Pezeshkzad, My Uncle Napoleon, tr. Dick Davis (Modern Library, 2006).

Shiva Rahbaran, Iranian Writers Uncensored: Freedom, Democracy, and the Word in Contemporary Iran, tr. Nilou Mobasser (Dalkey Archive, 2012).

Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis (Pantheon, 2007).

Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. Sholeh Wolpé (University of Arkansas Press, 2010). 

Iraq

Daisy Al-Amir, The Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman's Tales of Alienation, tr. Barbara Parmenter (University of Texas Press, 1994).

Muhsin al-Ramli, Scattered Crumbs, tr. Yasmeen S. Hanoosh (University of Arkansas Press, 2003). 

Mahdi Issa al-Saqr, East Winds, West Winds, tr. Paul Starkey (American University in Cairo Press, 2010).

Sinan Antoon, I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, tr. Sinan Antoon and Rebecca C. Johnson (City Lights, 2007). 

Betool Khedairi, Absent, tr. Jamil Muhayman (American University in Cairo Press, 2005). 

Saadi Yousef, Without an Alphabet, Without a Face, tr. by Khaled Mattawa (Graywolf, 2002). 

Palestine

Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin (Bloomsbury USA, 2010). 

Suad Amiry, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (Anchor, 2006). 

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, tr. Ahdaf Soueif (Anchor, 2003). 

Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories, tr. Hilary Kilpatrick (Three Continents, 1998). 

Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns, tr. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Trevor Legassick (Interlink, 1999). 

Elias Khoury, Gate of the Sun, tr. Humphrey Davies (Archipelago Books, 2005). 

Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (Profile Books, 2010). 

Raja Shehadeh, A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle (Profile Books, 2007).