This page is for current Fulbrighters in Jordan and anyone else who is interested in knowing what we are reading. For those of us in Jordan, this can serve as a de facto library catalogue for book exchange; for everyone this can be a book recommendation list—short or long reviews from participants for selected readings are welcome. Books listed here may range from trade papers saturated in jargon to travel reading, from reference guides to treatises on human nature. However, due to their ubiquity, Hans Weir’s Arabic-English Dictionary, Lonley Planet: Jordan and every book in the Al-Kitaab fii Ta’allum al-Arabiyya are hereby banned.
| Subject/Title | Author | Book Holder |
| History / Political Science / Middle East Studies | ||
| A History of the Arab Peoples | Albert Hourani | Alex S. |
| A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East | David Fromkin | David |
| A Political Economy of the Middle East | Alan Richards and John Waterbury | Ali |
| Arab Television Today | Naomi Sakr | David |
| Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age | Albert Hourani | Alex S. |
| Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939 | Albert Hourani | Ali |
| Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World | Amaney A. Jamal | Ali |
| Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip | Ronit Chacham | Fatima |
| Christianity in the Arab World | El Hassan Bin Talal | Alex S. |
| Colonial Effects | Joseph A. Massad | Alex S. |
| Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan | Joseph Andoni Massad | Ali |
| Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America | Adam Przeworski | Ali |
| Edward Said Reader | Edward W. Said, Moustafa Bayoumi, and Andrew Rubin | Alex S. |
| Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland | Guy Ben-Porat | Fatima |
| Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology | Kate Crehan | Ali |
| Home Land: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians | Ed. Staughton Lynd, Sam Bahour and Alice Lynd | Fatima |
| Hussein of Jordan: Searching for a Just and Lasting Peace | James Lunt | David |
| Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism | Anderson, Benedict Richard O’Gorman | Ali |
| iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam | Gary R. Bunt | David |
| International Politics | Ed. Art and Jerivs | Ali |
| Introduction to International Political Economy | Ed. Balaam and Veseth | Ali |
| Iran’s Intellectual Revolution | Mehran Kamrava | Alex S. |
| Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2002 | Terence Brown | Fatima |
| Islam and the Secular State | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im | Alex S. |
| Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace | Mohammed el-Nawawy and Sahar Khamis | David |
| Islam in Transition | Ed. Esposito and Donohue | Ali |
| Jordan in Transition, 1990-2000 | George Joffé | Ali |
| Leaving Terrorism Behind: Individual and collective disengagement | John Horgan and Tore Bjorgo, Editors | David |
| Les Arabes d’Israël [French] | Jacques Bendelac | Ali |
| Media and Political Conflict: News from the MIddle East | Gadi Wolfsfeld | David |
| Milestones | Sayyid Qutb | Alex S. |
| Muslims Christians and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue | Jane I. Smith | Alex S. |
| Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State | Betty S. Anderson | Alex S. |
| Nations and Nationalism | Ernest Gellner | Ali |
| Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality | Eric J. Hobsbawm | Ali |
| Orientalism | Edward W. Said | Ali |
| Origins of Arab Nationalism | Rashid Khalidi, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslih, and Reeva Simon | Alex S. |
| Palestinian Identity | Rashid Khalidi | Alex S. |
| Peaks of Yemen I Summon: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe | Steven C. Caton | David |
| Poetry and Politics in Contemporary Bedouin Society | Clive Holes and Said Salman Abu Athera | David |
| Political Ideology in the Arab World | Michelle Browers | Ali |
| Revolutionary Change | Chalmers Johnson | Ali |
| Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics | Joseph S. Nye, Jr. | David |
| Some microfilm about the PFLP | Ali | |
| State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan’s Identity | Marc Lynch | Ali |
| Structuring Conflict in the Arab World | Ellen Lust-Okar | Ali |
| Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East | Eleanor Abdella Doumato and Gregory Starrett | Alex S. |
| Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges | Gabriel Weimann | David |
| The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935 | Antonio Gramsci | Ali |
| The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement | George Antonius | Alex S. |
| The Book in the Islamic Word: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East | George N. Atiyeh | Alex S. |
| The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State | Noah Feldman | Alex S. |
| The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen | Flagg Miller | David |
| The Nation and Its Fragments | Partha Chaterjee | Ali |
| The Nationalism Reader | Ed. Ishay and Dabhour | Ali |
| The Psychology of Terrorism | John Horgan | David |
| The Question of Palestine | Edward W. Said | Ali |
| The Shaping of an Arab Statesman: Sharif Abd al-Hamid Sharaf and the Modern Arab World | Patrick Seale, Editor | David |
| The War for Muslim Minds | Gilles Kepel | David |
| This Side of Peace | Hanan Ashrawi | Fatima |
| Unity in Diversity: Interfaith Dialogue in the Middle East | Mohammed Abu-Nimer; Amal I. Khoury; and Emily Welty | Alex S. |
| Walking Away from Terrorism: Accounts of disengagement from radical and extremist movements | John Horgan | David |
| What Terrorists Want | Louise Richardson | David |
| Why Are the Arabs Not Free? – The Politics of Writing | Moustapha Safouan | Ali |
| Why Has the Arab Renaissance Failed? (Arabic) | Alex S. | |
| Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation | Steven C. Caton | David |
| Theory | ||
| A Thousand Plateaus | Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri | Ali |
| Anthropology in Theory | Ed. Moore and Sanders | Ali |
| Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement | Ed. Crenshaw, Gotanda, Peller, Thomas | Fatima |
| Ethics | Spinoza | Ali |
| Formations of the Secular | Talal Asad | Ali |
| Foucault | Gilles Deleuze | Ali |
| History of the Concept of Time | Martin Heidegger | Ali |
| Literary Theory: An Anthology | Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan | Fatima |
| My Cocaine Museum | Michael Taussig | Ali |
| Nietsche [French] | Gilles Deleuze | Ali |
| Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity | Marc Augé | Ali |
| On Tyranny | Leo Strauss | Ali |
| Subversive Spinoza | Antonio Negri | Ali |
| The Anthropology of Politics | Ed. Vincent | Ali |
| The Democratic Paradox | Chantal Mouffe | Ali |
| The Origins of Totalitarianism | Arendt, Hannah | Ali |
| The Republic | Plato | Ali |
| The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgois Society | Jurgen Habermas | Ali |
| The Wretched of the Earth | Franz Fanon | Ali |
| Memoir / Autobiography | ||
| Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir | William Zinsser | Fatima |
| My Memoirs Completed: “Al-Takmilah” | King Abdallah of Jordan | David |
| Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life | Sari Nusseibah | Fatima |
| One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way | Wendy Kopp | Fatima |
| Out of Place: A Memoir | Edward Said | Fatima |
| Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood | Ibtisam Barakat | Fatima |
| The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts | Maxine Hong Kingston | Fatima |
| Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time | Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin | Fatima |
| Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories | Anna Baltzer | Fatima |
| Literature | ||
| A Land of Stone and Thyme: An Anthology of Palestinian Short Stories | Ed. Nur and Abdelwahab Elmessiri | Fatima |
| A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories (Arabic) | Sabry Hafez and Catherine Cobham | David |
| All That’s Left to You: A Novella and Short Stories | Ghassan Kanafani | Fatima |
| Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature | Ed. Jayyusi | Fatima |
| Arabian Love Poems (Bilingual) | Nizar Kabbani | David |
| Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | Ali |
| Breaking Poems | Suheir Hammad | Fatima |
| Cairo Trilogy | Naguib Mahfouz | Alex S. |
| Conspiring Against Joseph: Reflections of a Prisoner of Conscience in a Federal Penitentiary | Sami al-Arian | Fatima |
| Essential Rumi | Jalal al-din Rumi | Alex S. |
| Fraction of a Whole | Steve Toltz | Ali |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | Fatima |
| Gate of the Sun | Elias Khoury | Fatima |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Arabic) | J.K. Rowling | Alex S. |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | Fatima |
| Men in the Sun (Arabic) | Ghassan Kanafani | David |
| Men in the Sun and other Palestinian Stories | Ghassan Kanafani | Fatima |
| Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology (English) | Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Editor | David |
| New Collected Poems | Eavan Boland | Fatima |
| Palestinian Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories | Ghassan Kanafani | Fatima |
| Poets for Palestine | Ed. Remi Kenazi | Fatima |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | Fatima |
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom | T. E. Lawrence | David |
| Sula | Toni Morrison | Fatima |
| Tales from Kalila wa Dimna: An Arabic Reader | Munther A. Younes | David |
| The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction (English) | Denys Johnson-Davies, Editor | David |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | Fatima |
| The Brothers Karmazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Ali |
| The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I, Alcestis, The Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus | Ed. David Greene and Richmond Lattimore | Fatima |
| The Complete Pelican Shakespeare | Ed. Orgel and Braunmuller | Fatima |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | David |
| The Prophet | Khalil Gibran | Alex S. |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | Ali |
| The Scar of David | Susan Abulhawa | Fatima |
| The Scarlet Letter and other Writings | Ed. Leland S. Person | Fatima |
| The Secret Life of Saeed (The Pessoptimist) | Emile Habiby | Fatima |
| The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus | Sophocles | Fatima |
| The Voyeur | Alain Robbe-Grillet | Ali |
| Under Milk Wood | Dylan Thomas | David |
| Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry | Adonis, Mahmud Darwish, and Samih al-Qasim | David |
| Reference Works – Languages | ||
| Barron’s 501 Verbs for Arabic | Ali | |
| Beginner’s French Grammar | David | |
| French language workbook | Ali | |
| Hebrew: Lonely Planet Phrasebook | Alex S. | |
| Larousse Dictionary for French | Ali | |
| Media Arabic | Julia Ashtiany | David |
| Media Arabic: An Essential Vocabulary | Elisabeth Kendall | David |
| Modern Literary Arabic | David Cowan | David |
| The Connectors in Modern Standard Arabic | Nariman Naili Al-Warraki and Ahmed Taher Hassanein | David |
| Writing Arabic: A Practical Introduction to Ruq’ah Script | T. F. Mitchell | David |
| Travel | ||
| Children of Jihad: A Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the MIddle East | Jared Cohen | David |
| Medicine for the Backcountry: A Practical Guide to Wilderness First Aid | Buck TIlton and Frank Hubbell | David |
| Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah | Tim Mackintosh-Smith | David |
| Trekking and Canyoning in the Jordanian Dead Sea Rift | Itai Haviv | Ali |
| Walking in Jordan | Di Taylor and Tony Howard | Ali |
| Other | ||
| Counterinsurgency Field Manual | U.S. Army/Marine Corps | David |
| Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research | Donald T. Campbell and Julian C. Stanley | David |
| Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In | Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton | David |
| Les Basiques: 80 Recettes Illustrees Pas a Pas | Marabout | Ali |
| Technical Theater for Nontechnical People | Drew Campbell | David |
