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Mohammed, Rahaf

Summary: In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women take for granted. She boarded a plane bound for Bangkok, en route to Australia where she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOHAMMAD, RAHAF MOH

Summary: Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAD
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAD

Baer, Robert.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.538 BAER

Baer, Robert.

Summary: Examines the love-hate relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, describing how the royal family's support of a radical religious group helps keep them in power while fostering hatred of the West throughout Saudi society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.538 BAE

Summary: It follows Maryam, a determined young doctor who runs for city council after the make incumbent repeatedly ignores her request to fix the muddy road leading to her clinic. Despite her father and her community₂s struggle to accept her as their town₂s first female candidate, Maryam₂s creative and ambitious campaign builds momentum, becoming a symbol for a larger movement.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PER

Hubbard, Ben (Journalist)

Summary: "MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia's sprawling royal family to overhaul the economy and society of the richest country in the Middle East--and gather as much power as possible into his own hands. Since his father, King Salman, ascended to the throne in 2015, Mohammed bin Salman has leveraged his influence to restructure the kingdom's economy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of Random House 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 953.8 HUB

Ferraris, Zoë.

Summary: Forensic tech Katya Hijazi is hoping to be promoted to police detective which may happen after working a secret case for lead inspector Ibrahim Zahrani who's mistress has disappeared at the same time Ibranhim is working a serial killer case.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FER

House, Karen Elliott.

Summary: A journalist draws on three decades of firsthand experience to profile contemporary Saudi Arabia, offering insight into its leaders, citizens, cultural complexities, and international prospects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 953.8 HOU

Bhathena, Tanaz

Summary: In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up andmove out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BHA

Golkar, Golriz

Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Saudi Arabia. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 953.8 GOL

al-Herz, Saba.

Summary: A best-selling book when it appeared in Arabic, The Others is a literary tour de force, offering a window into one of the most repressive societies in the world. Seba al-Herz tells the story of a nameless teenager at a girls' school in the heavily Shi'ite Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Like her classmates, she has no contact with men outside her family. When the glamorous Dai tries to seduce...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AL

Unger, Craig.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.7305 UNG

Wald, Ellen R.

Summary: "A groundbreaking history that reveals the motivations and machinations behind Aramco and the rise of Saudi Arabia"--Jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 WAL

Summary: An in-depth look at Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's life, work, and murder amidst the complexity of U.S.-Saudi Arabia relations. Exclusive interviews explore Khashoggi's con nections with Saudi rulers, Middle Eastern jihadists, and fellow global journalists, as well as his enduring global legacy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KIN

Ali, S. K.

Summary: Adam and Zayneb embark on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, but as one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder if their meeting was just an oddity after all.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALI

Unger, Craig.

Summary: Author Craig Unger discusses the weave of influence, investment, and policy between the House of Saud and the House of Bush.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 327.7305 UNG

Contents: Dialogue (6:51) -- Wandering (7:30) -- Time to have fun (3:40) -- Fly away (9:02) -- A gift from a Sufi soul (6:36) -- Dasht (8:03) -- Ayoub (7:42) -- River (4:27) -- Dancing planet (5:52).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST RAH

Summary: King Abdullah of Jordan worships in the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948

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Eggers, Dave.

Summary: A struggling American businessman travels to a rising Saudi Arabian city with the hopes of securing a contract that will earn him a commission large enough to stave off his economic woes and hold his family together.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EGG

Bird, Kai.

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 BIRD, KAI BIR

Eggers, Dave.

Summary: A struggling American businessman travels to a rising Saudi Arabian city with the hopes of securing a contract that will earn him a commission large enough to stave off his economic woes and hold his family together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Eggers 2012

Jenkins, Jerry B.

Summary: "Archaeologist Nicole Berman is the first woman to be awarded a permit to lead a dig in Saudi Arabia. Nicole has a hunch that the artifacts she hopes to discover have the power to rewrite world history. She assembles a team that will ultimately surprise - and in some cases - betray her. Will she find what she believes to be the key to unifying the three major religions before a dangerous enemy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEN

Summary: 1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers₂ quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THE

Rucka, Greg

Summary: Following a devastating terrorist attack on London, Tara Chace, Head of Special Operations for the British Secret Intelligence Service, goes back into the field to retaliate against those responsible.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUC

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