Middle East-Media/Literature

Here are a list of media and literature that reference or center around the middle east:

Things Fall Apart

The Kite Runner

Infidel- Deep book. Incredible insight into life in an Islamic state as a woman. A chronicle of the terrible injustices that are committed upon women in the middle east. A personal account and memoir. Just scrumptious.

Babel

The Kite Runner

The Kingdom

Generation Kill (HBO)

The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (Doc.)

Munich

Syriana- A particularly interesting movie that portrays the absolute significance of oil in the middle east and the exaggerated politics behind it.

Rendition

Charlie Wilson's War

In the Valley of Elah

Saddam (HBO)