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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.

The Good Immigrant: 21 writers reflect on race in contemporary Britain Orientalism Bad Girls of the Arab World
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Books I Read While Researching The Greater Freedom

Tell Her She's Dreamin': A memoir for ambitious girls
Bahari: Recipes From an Omani Kitchen and Beyond
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Women in the Qur'an: An Emancipatory Reading
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
Girl Decoded: My Quest to Make Technology Emotionally Intelligent – and Change the Way We Interact Forever
Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
Sex and Lies
Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
Daring to Drive: A gripping account of one woman's home-grown courage that will speak to the fighter in all of us
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
Unbound: A Woman’s Guide To Power Pixel Flesh: The distortion of the female body in a world obsessed by image – and how we can change it Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
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We Should All Be Feminists

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
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Best Memoirs

A Nose and Three Eyes: A Novel Daughters of the Nile Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award
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Fiction Books by Middle Eastern Authors

Freshwater Mr Loverman Sister Outsider
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Books by Black Authors

Daisy Jones and The Six A Pure Heart Sex and Lies
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My Favourite books of 2020

A Nose and Three Eyes: A Novel I Who Have Never Known Men Freshwater
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Best Fiction

Unbound: A Woman’s Guide To Power The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Pixel Flesh: The distortion of the female body in a world obsessed by image – and how we can change it
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Non-Fiction for Growth

Pixel Flesh: The distortion of the female body in a world obsessed by image – and how we can change it Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy Resonate: For Anyone Who Wants To Build An Audience: For Anyone Who Wants To Build An Audience
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Non-fiction for Insight

Silver Sparrow: From the Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2019
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
A Woman is No Man
The Water Dancer: The New York Times Bestseller
The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries and How to Set Them
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
White Tears Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour
My Dark Vanessa
The Far Field
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: The International Bestseller
My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Dispatches on Shame and Reclamation
Mornings in Jenin: Over a million copies sold - a classic of modern Palestinian writing
This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings
Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s Strength
Reading the World: How I Read a Book from Every Country
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
The Seven Necessary Sins For Women And Girls
Rodham: The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller asking: What if Hillary hadn’t married Bill?
Committed: A Love Story
Cairo Circles
Alias Grace
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
Pussy: A Reclamation
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
The Signature of All Things
Black Cake
Losing It: Sex Education for the 21st Century
Blue Ticket
We Are All Birds of Uganda
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love
The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us
First Comes Love
The Situationship: #Merky Books’ first unputdownable rom-com
Pretending: The brilliant adult novel from Holly Bourne. Why be yourself when you can be perfect?
The Falconer
The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries and How to Set Them
Women Who Love Too Much
The Course of Love: An unforgettable story of love and marriage from the author of bestselling novel Essays in Love
Acts of Desperation: The must-read novel
Acts of Service: "A sex masterpiece" (Guardian)
All Grown Up
City of Girls: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Olive
Unbound: A Woman’s Guide To Power
A Nose and Three Eyes: A Novel
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Pixel Flesh: The distortion of the female body in a world obsessed by image – and how we can change it
Freshwater
Tell Her She's Dreamin': A memoir for ambitious girls
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love
The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy
Mr Loverman
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us
Sister Outsider
Resonate: For Anyone Who Wants To Build An Audience: For Anyone Who Wants To Build An Audience
Acts of Service: "A sex masterpiece" (Guardian)
Your Story Matters: Find Your Voice, Sharpen Your Skills, Tell Your Story
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Just the Funny Parts: … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys' Club
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal: A Companion to The Artist's Way
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
On Palestine
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: The International Bestseller
Yellowface
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
The Falconer
The Rules of Magic
Acts of Service: "A sex masterpiece" (Guardian)
Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award
Circe: The stunning new anniversary edition from the author of international bestseller The Song of Achilles
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Transcendent Kingdom: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
Malibu Rising
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
The Seat of the Soul: An Inspiring Vision of Humanity's Spiritual Destiny
The State Of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity - a book for anyone who has ever loved
The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays