"Middle East"

Recent Customer Reviews in Middle East

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  Tolstoy in Riyadh (Paperback)

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  An authentic look at Saudi Arabian life

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  Nov 6, 2011

  kristaonpurpose  from Ventura, CA, Rating:5.0

  During the fall 2006 semester, I took a Major Non-Western Authors literature course to complete my degree in English. We read a lot of books I would never have been exposed to on my own, like the Epic of Gilgamesh. We also read some "trendy" books as well, and one of them was Reading Lolita in Tehran. So many reaped great praise on Reading, but it did not jive with me. There were a lot of issues I had, but one of them was that the book seemed to lack a real authenticity. The author was, by all accounts, Americanized, and it seemed to me that her book was something she wanted to use to tie her to her roots without ever having truly experienced the culture about which she was writing. It was forced and pompous and I hated reading it. I don't want to put all memoirs that take place in the Middle East into a box, so when one of my colleagues, Chris Cryer, told me she wrote a book about her experience living in Saudi Arabia teaching English, I offered to read and review it. That book is To...
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  Dk Eyewitness Travel Top 10 Dubai and Dh (Paperback)

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  travel information

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  Dec 12, 2010

  fairoaks3  from Black Creek, Georgia, Rating:5.0

  It has a varity of things to read about such as food, shopping, places to go and directions. I buy eyewitness books for all my travels.
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  Lonely Planet Middle East (Paperback)

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  Middle East

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  May 20, 2010

  skycrew  from Frankfurt, Germany, Rating:4.0

  I bought this Lonely Planet guide book for my trip to the Iraqi Kurdistan region. It proved to be a great asset for this trip. I used the hotels listed and the accomodation was exactly as indicated. The local sights were acurately detailed as was the transportation listed. The book did recommend that anyone traveling to Iraq should do so with at least one other person however I opted to go alone as an American woman and experienced no difficulty what-so-ever. I would recommend this book for anyone going to Northern Iraq.
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  Egypt - Culture Smart!

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  Egypt- Culture Smart

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  Oct 5, 2007

  janwb  from Columbus Ohio, Rating:5.0

  A great little guide that is a very helpful aid in avoiding accidentally offending in a different culture. No more "ugly Americans"! It also can help understand others here at home, as this country ,once again in it's history, is becoming more diverse.