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Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Heritage Month Reads

MENA Heritage Month celebrates Middle Eastern and North African communities and cultures. Browse a list of novels, memoirs, and more.

King County Library System

23 items

  • Lebanon
    BookMinneapolis : Graphic Universe, 2012. — Y956.92044 ABI
  • Playing for Freedom

    the Journey of a Young Afghan Girl

    Adiba, Zarifa, 1998-
    Afghanistan
    BookSeattle, WA : Amazon Crossing, 2024. — 780.82 ADI
  • Afghanistan
    BookNew York : Random House, [2023] — 364.152309 AHM
  • Palestine
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — FIC ALYAN
  • Arabiyya

    Recipes From the Life of An Arab in Diaspora

    Assil, Reem,
    Palestine and Syria
    BookCalifornia : Ten Speed Press, [2022] — 641.592927 ASS
  • Palestine
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, 2023. — FIC CYPHER
  • The Land in Our Bones

    Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures From Syria to the Sinai

    Feghali, Layla K.,
    Lebanon
    BookBerkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2024] — 615.321095 FEG
  • Afghanistan
    BookNew York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — Y HASHIMI
  • Rumi

    Poet of Joy and Love

    Kheiriyeh, Rashin,
    Iran
    BookNew York : NorthSouth Books, 2024. — EB JALAL AL-DIN RUMI
  • Muhammad Najem, War Reporter

    How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria

    Najem, Muhammad,
    Syria
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — YGN 956.910423 NAJ
  • Iran
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — Y NAZEMIAN
  • The Arab of the Future

    a Graphic Memoir : a Childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984)

    Sattouf, Riad
    Libya and Syria
    BookNew York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2015. — GN ARAB FUTURE
  • Lebanon.
    BookAustin, Tex. : Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, [2019] — Y SHARAF AL-DIN