7 best-selling nonfiction books like The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes by Alya Mooro

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The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes

By: Alya Mooro

3.76

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

The greater freedom is to be who you actually are; to be able to live your life in the way you deem…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes by Alya Mooro , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

By: Mark Forsyth

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between word… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

By: Mohsin Hamid

4.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined ta… read more

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3. Mornings in Jenin

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did fo… read more

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4. Moth Smoke

By: Mohsin Hamid

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

When Daru Shezad is fired from his banking job in Lahore, he begins a decline that plummets the len… read more

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5. The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career Job, and Waking Up Excited for Work Every Day

By: None , None

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Remember the days when, for the vast majority of workers, a job was (at best) a means to a paycheck… read more

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6. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

By: Mona Eltahawy

3.60

Format: None pages,

A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world, by an Egyptian American journalist and … read more

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7. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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8. Death on Cromer Beach (DS Ashley Knight #1)

By: Ross Greenwood

4.10

Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a new series from bestselling author, Ross Greenwood! A brutal double murder on a N… read more

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9. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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10. Impasse des deux palais

By: Naguib Mahfouz

4.19

Format: None pages, Poche

« La rue d’al-Nahhasin n’était pas une rue calme… La harangue des camelots, le marchandage des clie… read more

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  • egypt
"ثم إن هنالك أمورًا لا يُمكن أن تُنسى."

-Naguib Mahfouz, Impasse des deux palais

"An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune."

-Naguib Mahfouz, Impasse des deux palais

"Don't go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return."

-Naguib Mahfouz, Impasse des deux palais

"...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs."

-Naguib Mahfouz, Impasse des deux palais

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11. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.73

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more

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"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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12. Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

By: Kika Hatzopoulou

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a world where the children of the gods inherit their powers, a descendant of the Greek Fates mus… read more

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"Three bodies, one soul. You go when your sisters need you. No questions asked."

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

"Tolerating wickedness can ensure your survival - but also cause a feeling of slow death."

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

"Because what is art, what is inspiration, if not the deepest, darkest secrets of the artist?"

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

"Io you need to go now," he breathed, eyes large and fearful. "And I promise, the moment I'm better. I'll come find you" "How?" she asked, the word breaking into a sob. How would he ever find her in t…"

-Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind (Threads That Bind, #1)

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13. Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator

By: Patricia Wiltshire

3.60

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you on a journey through the fascinating edgeland where natu… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. Phaedra

By: Laura Shepperson

3.32

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Debut novelist Laura Shepperson offers a powerful feminist retelling of Phaedra and her unyielding … read more

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  • feminism
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15. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

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  • feminism
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

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16. In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home

By: Mona Hajjar Halaby

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their re… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes by Alya Mooro

17. The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes

By: Alya Mooro

3.76

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

The greater freedom is to be who you actually are; to be able to live your life in the way you deem… read more

Similar categories in Alya Mooro's The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes book and Alya Mooro's The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • gender
  • egypt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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18. Cairo Circles

By: Doma Mahmoud

4.33

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Sherif “Sheero” Abdallah is an NYU student reveling in independence, free from the judgmental gaze … read more

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  • egypt
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19. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

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20. The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

By: Michelle Elman

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Is your friendship group constantly filled with drama? Does your boss make constant unreasonable d… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "do I have the right to be thirsty?"

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

"There are no right or wrong rules, but which are your rules? It’s your house, they are your boundaries, and you decide."

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

"Your relationship served a purpose at the time and just because it no longer exists doesn’t mean it was a waste of time."

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

"We have romanticized needing another human, when I believe the most romantic thing is not needing someone but wanting them around anyway."

-Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

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21. Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

By: Anna Bogutskaya

4.18

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Ho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays

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4.52

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Laura Shepperson

3.32

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Jennifer Saint

3.75

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3.68

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Alex Walters

4.04

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Wes Markin

4.36

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Andrew Raymond

4.47

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