Sometimes a picture really does speak a thousand words. Taken by Samuel Aranda in a mosque-cum-hospital in Yemen, during the Arab Spring. http://www.worldpressphoto.org/
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May 2012
Books Reading: War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy Read: A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Housani Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali The Great Game - On Secret Service in High Asia - Peter Hopkirk Afghanistan - Martin Ewans The In-Between World of Vikram Lall - MG Vassanji Codependant No More Ghost Wars - Steve Coll Metamorphasis - Kafka Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran - Reza Khalili My Year Inside Radical Islam - A Memoir - Daveed Gartenstein-Ross The Last Living Slut - Roxana Shirazi Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire - Judith Herrin Moonwalking with Einstein - Josh Foer Wisdom - ed. Andrew Zuckerman Ghost Train to the Eastern Star - Paul Thoreau No-Nonsense Guide to World History - Chris Brazier Arctic Dreams - Barry Lopez On The Road - Jack Kerouac Collapse - Jared Diamond The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin You Majored in What? - Katharine Brooks Monsoon – Robert. D. Kaplan When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra – Colin Falconer The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid How to be Idle – Tom Hodgkinson My Name is Red – Orhan Pramuk The Zanzibar Chest – Aidan Hartley Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond Burnt Out Case – Graham Green Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne Call of the Wild – Jack London Siddharta – Herman Hesse Reading Lolita in Tehran – Nafisi The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving 1984 – George Orwell Origin of Species – Charles Darwin Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe The Joys of Motherhood – Buchi Emecheta Un Lezard au Congo – Gil Courtemanche Toads for Supper – Chukwuemeke Ike Alice inWonderland The Problem of Pain – Lewis The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson The Graves Are Not Yet Full – Bill Berkely Animal Farm – George Orwell Kim – Rudyard Kipling Mortality for Beautiful Girls – The Pelican Brief – John Grisham Ambiguous Adventures – Cheikh Hamidou Kane The Liberation Movement in the East – Lenin The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson No Easy Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A Man of the People – Chinua Achebe Blood River – Tim Butcher Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte The African Child – Camara Laye The Last Child - John Hart Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad The Ends of the Earth – Robert D. Kaplan Travels With Charley – John Steinbeck Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf |
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