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El Salvador Book List

Alegria, Claribel. Ashes of Izalco: a novel (1989)

Alegría, Claribel. Flowers from the volcano (1983)

Alegría, Claribel. Luisa in Realityland (1987)

Almeida, Paul. Waves of protest: popular struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005 (2008)

Archila, William. The art of exile (2009)

Argueta, Manlio. Cuzcatlan: where the southern sea beats (1987)

Argueta, Manlio. Little Red Riding Hood in the red light district: a novel (1998)

Argueta, Manlio. One day of life (1991)

Armstrong, Robert and Janet Shenk, editors. El Salvador: the face of revolution (1999)

Bencastro, Mario. Odyssey to the north (1998)

Bencastro, Mario. A shot in the cathedral (1996)

Bencastro, Mario. The tree of life: stories of civil war (1997)

Benitez, Sandra. Bitter grounds (1997)

Benitez, Sandra. The weight of all things (2000)

Bonner, Raymond. Weakness and deceit: U.S. policy and El Salvador (1984)

Brockman, James R. Romero: a life (1989)

Byrne, Hugh. El Salvador’s civil war: a study of revolution (1996)

Clements, Charles. Witness to war: an American doctor in El Salvador (1984)

Dalton, Roque. Clandestine poems/Poemas clandestinos (1995)

Dalton, Roque. Poems (1984)

Dalton, Roque. Poetry and militancy in Latin America (1982)

Dalton, Roque. Small hours of the night: selected poems of Roque Dalton (1996)

Danner, Mark. The massacre at El Mozote: a parable of the Cold War (1994)

Didion, Joan. Salvador (1983)

Doggett, Martha. Death foretold: the Jesuit murders in El Salvador (1993)

Forché, Carolyn. The country between us (1981)

García, Cristina. A handbook to luck (2007) (in part)

Mermelstein, David, Patrick Lacefield and Marvin E. Gettleman, editors. El Salvador: Central America in the New Cold War (1987)

Gorkin, Michael, Marta Pineda and Gloria Leal. From grandmother to granddaughter: Salvadoran women’s stories (2000)

Gould, Jeffrey L. and Aldo A. Laura-Santiago. To rise in darkness: revolution, repression, and memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932 (2008)

Grenier, Yvon. The emergence of insurgency in El Salvador: ideology and political will (1999)

Hutchinson, Bill. When the dogs ate candles: a time in El Salvador (1998)

Juhn, Tricia. Negotiating peace in El Salvador: civil-military relations and the conspiracy to end the war (1998)

Kephart, Beth. Still love in strange places: a memoir (2002)

Lamperti, John. Enrique Alvarez Córdova: a life of a Salvadoran revolutionary and gentleman (2006)

Lauria-Santiago, Aldo and Leigh Binford, editors. Landscapes of struggle: politics, society, and community in El Salvador (2004)

Limón, Graciela. In search of Bernabe (1993)

Lindo, Hugo. Ways of rain/Maneras de llover (1986)

Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor, Erik Chin and Rafael A. Lara-Martínez. Remembering a massacre in El Salvador: the Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the politics of historical memory (2007)

Metz, Brent E., Cameron L. McNeil and Kerry M. Hull. The Ch’orti’ Maya area: past and present (2009)

Moodie, Ellen. El Salvador in the aftermath of peace: crime, uncertainty, and the transition to democracy (2010)

Moya, Horacio Castellanos. Dance with snakes (2009)

New American Press, editor. A dream compels us: voices of Salvadoran women (1989)

Paige, Jeffrey M. Coffee and power: revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America (1997)

Plunket, Patricia, editor. Domestic ritual in ancient Mesoamerica (2002)

Rodriguez, Sandra. The heiress of water (2006)

Tilley, Virginia Q. Seeing Indians: a study of race, nation, and power in El Salvador (2005)

Todd, Molly. Beyond displacement: campesinos, refugees, and collective action in the Salvadoran civil war (2010)

Urías, Alfonso Quijada. The better to see you (1993)

Vilas, Carlos. Between earthquakes and volcanoes: markets, state, and the revolution in Central America (1995)

Villatoro, Marcos McPeek. A fire in the earth (1996)

White, Christopher M. The history of El Salvador (2008)

Wood, Elisabeth Jean. Insurgent collective action and civil war in El Salvador (2003)

Wright, Scott. Oscar Romero and the communion of the saints: a biography (2009)

Yanes, Gabriela and others, editors. Mirrors of war: literature and revolution in El Salvador (1985)

Istanbul, Turkey

Michael David Lukas talks about his first novel, The Oracle of Stamboul.

Eleonora was conceived in Istanbul, Lukas explains, when he wandered into ‘a narrow dusty little store. In the back was a crystal bowl, and in it was a picture of this little girl with the most self-possessed, wise look in her eye. When we made eye contact, I knew that this was my protagonist and that my novel would be set in Istanbul.’

Yemen Book List

Abdul-Wali, Mohammad. They die strangers (2001)

Aithie, Charles and Patricia. Yemen: jewel of Arabia (2009)

Ali, Nujood. I am Nujood, age 10 and divorced (2010)

Boggs, Richard. The lost world of Socotra: Yemen’s island of bliss (2009)

Botting, Douglas. Island of the dragon’s blood (1958)

Boucek, Christopher and Marina Ottaway, editors. Yemen on the brink (2010)

Boxberger, Linda. On the edge of empire: Hadhramawt, emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s (2002)

Burrowes, Robert D. Historical dictionary of Yemen (1995)

Caspi, Mishael Maswari, translator. Daughters of Yemen (1985)

Caton, Steven C. Peaks of Yemen I summon: poetry as cultural practice in a North Yememi tribe (1990)

Caton, Steven C. Yemen chronicle: an anthropology of war and mediation (2005)

Clark, Victoria. Yemen: dancing on the heads of snakes (2010)

De Maigret, Alessandro. Arabia Felix: an exploration of the archaeological history of Yemen (2002)

Dresch, Paul. A history of modern Yemen (2000)

Gold, Sharlya, et al. Answered prayer: and other Yemenite folktales (2004)

Halliday, Fred. Arabia without sultans (2002)

Han, Carolyn. From the land of Sheba: Yemeni folk tales (2005)

Hansen, Eric. Motoring with Mohammed: journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea (1992)

Henighan, Tom. Coming of age in Arabia: a memoir of Aden before the terror (2004)

Lunt, James D. The barren rocks of Aden (1967)

MacKintosh-Smith, Tim. Yemen: the unknown Arabia (2001)

MacKintosh-Smith, Tim. Yemen: travels in dictionary land (1999)

Margariti, Roxani Eleni. Aden and the Indian Ocean trade: 150 years in the life of a medieval Arabian port (2007)

Messick, Brinkley. The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society (1993)

Morris, Timothy. The despairing developer: diary of an aid worker in the Middle East (1991)

Muhsen, Zana. A promise to Nadia (2000)

Muhsen, Zana. Sold: one woman’s true account of modern slavery (1995)

Nizan, Paul. Aden, Arabie (1960)

Damluji, Salma Samar. The architecture of Yemen: from Yafi to Hadramut (2008)

Simpson, St. John. Queen of Sheba: treasures from ancient Yemen (2002)

Stark, Freya. The coast of incense: autobiography 1933-1939 (1953)

Stark, Freya. The southern gates of Arabia (c1936)

Stark, Freya. Winter in Arabia (1940)

Steil, Jennifer. The woman who fell from the sky: an American journalist in Yemen (2010)

Torday, Paul. Salmon fishing in the Yemen (2007)

Um, Nancy. The merchant houses of Mocha: trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port (2009)

Wedeen, Lisa. Peripheral visions: publics, power, and performance in Yemen (2008)

Wyatt, Susan Clough. Arabian nights and daze: living in Yemen with the Foreign Service (2010)

Kensington Gardens, London, England

Sarah Crown “strolls through Kensington Gardens and hears from William Boyd and other writers about the park’s enduring source of inspiration.”

Istanbul, Turkey

Pico Iyer visits Istanbul.

We foreigners like to recall that Istanbul is the only city on earth with one shore in Asia and one in Europe. But its real heart, according to its eloquent son, Orhan Pamuk, in his evocative memoir 'Istanbul: Memories of a City', lies rather in the division between the old (which is usually the local and the Islamic) and the new (generally the western and the secular).