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5 BEST BOOKS FOR UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL NEWS...

If you are anything like me, you are probably pretty confused, scared, angry, depressed or all of the above at once over recent events in the news. I have been looking all over for information that makes sense and is objective. CNN is not the answer. Reading books is. The following is a short list of books that I think are helpful. And it actually isn't five books. I'm a rebel.

 

About Islam:

A YOUNG MUSLIM'S GUIDE TO THE MODERN WORLD
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Library of Islom Ltd
ISBN: 1567444768

 

 



About the Palestinain/Isreali conflict:

THE MIDDLE EAST: Struggle For A Homeland
John Isaac
Blackbirch Marketing
ISBN: 1567111874

 


THIS SIDE OF PEACE: A Personal Account
Hanan Ashrawi
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0684802945

 

 



About Globalization:

JIHAD VS. MCWORLD: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World
Benjamin Barber
Ballantine Books (Trd Pap)
ISBN: 0345383044

 

 


Fiction and Poetry From and About The Middle East:

THE SPACE BETWEEN OUR FOOTSTEPS
edited by Naomi Shihab Nye
Simon & Schuster (Juv)
ISBN: 0689812337

 


HABIBI
Naomi Shihab Nye
Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN: 0689825234

 

 

 


SHABANU: Daughter of The Wind
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Random House Childrens Pub
ISBN: 0679810307

 

 

   --- Compiled by Lucy Burns


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