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u/SmallFruitbat · 3 pointsr/YAwriters

I know almost nothing about this, but I have some broad book recommendations in the vein of "read some non-fiction!"

Main thing to keep in mind as you read is that Arab ≠ Muslim ≠ Persian or any combination thereof. Differences between Sunni, Shia, Sufi, etc. Also, urban ≠ rural. And boring, everyday life doesn't readily lend itself to a narrative form.

Related Books:

  • Persepolis, Persepolis 2, and Embroideries, about coming of age (upper) middle class life during and after the Islamic Revolution. These are graphic novels, and my mother swears that Embroideries (not directly related) is her church women's group exactly.
  • Three Cups of Tea, panned for misuse of funds, but the whole book was about how bribery and paying your dues and understanding what local priorities were was essential to getting anything done in a tribal mountain culture.
  • Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, again with "controversy," this time about immigration and religion. Still has a lot of background information about Islam in Somalia and Kenya.
  • The Underground Girls of Kabul and I Am a Bacha Posh, about the (possibly new-ish) tradition of dressing girls as boys in Afghanistan. I haven't read these, but a friend is working from them for NaNoWriMo.
  • Reading in Lolita in Tehran - I am hesitant to recommend this book because I hated it. It was billed as subversion and cultural voyeurism, but more than half the book ended up being half-baked literary criticism instead of Observations. This is also why I didn't like Some Girls: My Life in a Harem: It was supposed to be about a mind-boggling Indonesian harem/commentary on oil wealth and ended up mostly being about how much her life sucked because she was adopted.

    Some other recommendations: if you're on or close to a university campus, there's probably a Muslim/Arab/Persian student association that would love to answer your specific questions or give you advice. There are also subreddits like /r/dubai, but they're mostly expats. Just poke around and you'll find more though.

    Fictional, often-fantastical book recommendations about the Middle East would be Shadow Spinner, The Book of a Thousand Days, or Habibi.

    Honestly, the thing that stuck with me the most as a chemist was that one of the other grad students was from Golan Heights and prior to moving here had to work through his entire master's thesis without an NMR (the most common chemistry instrument that is used to "prove" pretty much everything) because a blockade stopped his university from receiving liquid nitrogen (which is used to keep the magnets in NMRs and medical devices like MRIs running). He found almost any touching or joking by a girl very uncomfortable, but was always polite. Other Muslim chemist friends just seemed French. Because they were.
u/Salt-Pile · 1 pointr/badwomensanatomy

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?

The same person also wrote Embroideries which is fantastic and quite relevant to this subreddit's interests.