Alya Mooro

Egyptian born, London raised Alya Mooro is a freelance journalist and bestselling author of The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes. She's editor of weekly newsletter The Greater Conversation and co-host on Bootleg Magic.

Books I Read While Researching The Greater Freedom VIEW LIST (19 BOOKS)

The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla

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Orientalism

Edward W. Said

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£10.22

Bad Girls of the Arab World

£68.00

£63.24

Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World

Katherine Zoepf

£24.99

£23.24

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

Mona Eltahawy

£9.99

£9.29

What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire

Daniel Bergner

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£9.29

Books I Read While Researching The Greater Freedom

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Non-Fiction Books by Middle Eastern authors VIEW LIST (23 BOOKS)

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We Should All Be Feminists VIEW LIST (19 BOOKS)

What a Time to be Alone: The Slumflower's guide to why you are already enough

Chidera Eggerue

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Motherhood

Sheila Heti

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Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

Jennifer Palmieri

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£13.94

The Descent of Man

Grayson Perry

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Three Women

Lisa Taddeo

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£9.29

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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£5.57

We Should All Be Feminists

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Best Memoirs VIEW LIST (25 BOOKS)

Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

Michelle Obama

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£23.25

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

Morgan Jerkins

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Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Afua Hirsch

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My Past Is a Foreign Country: A Muslim feminist finds herself

Zeba Talkhani

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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

Akala

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Educated: The international bestselling memoir

Tara Westover

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Best Memoirs

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Fiction Books by Middle Eastern Authors VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)

The Pact We Made

Layla AlAmmar

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Salt Houses

Hala Alyan

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Beer in the Snooker Club

Waguih Ghali

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A Pure Heart

Rajia Hassib

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£15.79

Alligator and Other Stories

Dima Alzayat

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Hijab and Red Lipstick

Yousra Imran

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£7.43

Fiction Books by Middle Eastern Authors

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Books by Black Authors VIEW LIST (32 BOOKS)

Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

Michelle Obama

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£23.25

The Confessions of Frannie Langton: The Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner 2019

Sara Collins

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On the Come Up

Angie Thomas

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£7.43

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

Morgan Jerkins

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£10.22

Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible

Elizabeth Uviebinene and Yomi Adegoke

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£9.29

Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi

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£7.43

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My Favourite books of 2020 VIEW LIST (25 BOOKS)

Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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A Pure Heart

Rajia Hassib

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£15.79

Sex and Lies

Leila Slimani

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Olive

Emma Gannon

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£13.94

Three Women

Lisa Taddeo

£9.99

£9.29

City of Girls: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Elizabeth Gilbert

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£8.36

My Favourite books of 2020

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Best Fiction VIEW LIST (71 BOOKS)

The Confessions of Frannie Langton: The Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner 2019

Sara Collins

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£8.36

Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi

£7.99

£7.43

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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£8.36

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

£12.09

The Water Cure: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018

Sophie Mackintosh

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£8.36

Heartburn

Nora Ephron

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Best Fiction

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Non-Fiction for Growth VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)

What a Time to be Alone: The Slumflower's guide to why you are already enough

Chidera Eggerue

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£12.08

The Power of Now: (20th Anniversary Edition)

Eckhart Tolle

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£10.22

You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Jen Sincero

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Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

Ryan Holiday

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A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. 'My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle' Chris Evans

Eckhart Tolle

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Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Non-Fiction for Growth

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Non-fiction for Insight VIEW LIST (20 BOOKS)

Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed

Will Storr

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The Descent of Man

Grayson Perry

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Hit Makers: How Things Become Popular

Derek Thompson

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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla

£8.99

£8.36

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

Mona Eltahawy

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£9.29

Non-fiction for Insight

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