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

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The Good Immigrant: 21 writers reflect on race in contemporary Britain

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Orientalism

Edward W. Said

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Bad Girls of the Arab World

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

Mona Eltahawy

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

Daniel Bergner

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On Identity

Amin Maalouf

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Books I Read While Researching The Greater Freedom

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Non-Fiction Books by Middle Eastern authors

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We Should All Be Feminists

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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

Nawal el Saadawi

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Fix the System, Not the Women

LAURA BATES

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Women in the Qur'an: An Emancipatory Reading

Asma Lamrabet

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VOX

Christina Dalcher

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Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Lyndall Gordon

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Pussy: A Reclamation

Regena Thomashauer

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We Should All Be Feminists

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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Deborah Feldman

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Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED

Glennon Doyle

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The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

Christina Joyce Hauser

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Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

Michelle Obama

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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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Best Memoirs

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Fiction Books by Middle Eastern Authors

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Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award

Susan Abulhawa

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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

Nawal el Saadawi

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The Pact We Made

Layla AlAmmar

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Cairo Circles

Doma Mahmoud

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Salt Houses

Hala Alyan

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Beer in the Snooker Club

Waguih Ghali

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Fiction Books by Middle Eastern Authors

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Books by Black Authors

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The Situationship: #Merky Books’ first unputdownable rom-com

Taylor-Dior Rumble

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Love in Colour: 'So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.' Candice Carty-Williams

Bolu Babalola

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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Glory Edim

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The List

Yomi Adegoke

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Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

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Black Cake: The compelling and beautifully written New York Times bestseller

Charmaine Wilkerson

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Books by Black Authors

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My Favourite books of 2020

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Daisy Jones and The Six: From the author of the hit TV series

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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A Pure Heart

Rajia Hassib

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Sex and Lies

Leila Slimani

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Olive

Emma Gannon

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Three Women

Lisa Taddeo

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City of Girls: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Elizabeth Gilbert

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My Favourite books of 2020

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: The #1 smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller

Gabrielle Zevin

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Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award

Susan Abulhawa

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The Mercies

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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Yellowface

Rebecca F Kuang

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White Ivy: Ivy Lin was a thief. But you'd never know it to look at her...

Susie Yang

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Best Fiction

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Non-Fiction for Growth

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell

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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading and Public Speaking

Mehdi Hasan

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Manifest

Roxie Nafousi

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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

Gabor Mate

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The Seat of the Soul: An Inspiring Vision of Humanity's Spiritual Destiny

Gary Zukav

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The State Of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity - a book for anyone who has ever loved

Esther Perel

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Non-Fiction for Growth

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Non-fiction for Insight

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell

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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading and Public Speaking

Mehdi Hasan

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Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us

Dr Brian Klaas

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Fix the System, Not the Women

LAURA BATES

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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

Gabor Mate

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Women in the Qur'an: An Emancipatory Reading

Asma Lamrabet

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Non-fiction for Insight

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My Favourite books of 2021

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My Favourite books of 2022

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Sex, Love & Relationships

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Books mentioned in my newsletter, The Greater Conversation

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Read This: to become a better writer

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Alya Mooro's best books of 2023

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