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I haven't read many books about Africa and the Middle East. The only two that I remember are the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini which we read in Freshman year, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe which we read this year. The Kite Runner was about a boy who immigrates from the Middle East to America, and it follows him through his life and even involves conflict with the Taliban at the end. Things Fall Apart was about the colonization of a small village in Africa by the Europeans and explores the true relationship between the two cultures and the effects of the European's arrival.