A new concept : the emergency library

     I have a very small ( for my standards ) personnal library, what I call the "emergency library", in my student room. I have not yet read everything, because I use the public libraries as much as I can, and my personnal emergency library is thete for, well, in case of an emergency ( who knows what might cause the shutdown of public libraries ? Revolutions and revolts tend to happen a lot these days, and I like the idea of being self sufficient bookwise ... Hehe ). So here is in no particular order a list a of the titles that help me sleep at night because I know they are here, just in case ( and that by the end of the summer will all be read and done with, God willing, so that again, next year, I'll have the pleasure to build up a new emergency library ):

(liste des livres contenus dans ma petite bibliothèque d'urgence, c'est à dire ce minimum de livres présents dans ma chambre d'étudiant qui me permet de ne pas trop avoir la nostalgie de ma vraie bonne grosse bibliothèque, au loin chez moi)
(قيام لكتب التي عندي في غرفتي الطلابية - يعني مكتبتي للطوارئ او كتلة صغيرة من كتب يسمحني الصبر خلال السنة الدراسية في ارادة العودة الى منزلي حيث مكتبتي الحقيقية الكبيرة - هذا القوام لا يستوحذ كل الكتب التي اقرأ من الجامعة او المكتبات البلبدية بل مكتبة الطوارئ لي هي فقط الكتب لم قرأت بعد )

The Chomsky Reader James Peck ed.
Desert Queen, by Janet Wallach
Pious Passion, by Rieserbroot
Lipstick Jihad, by Azadeh Moaveni
Reel Bad Arabs, by Jack G. Shaheen
The Duel, by Tariq Ali
Iran, A Revolution In Turmoil, Haleh Asfshar ed.
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
Paradise, by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Somehting To Tell You, by Hanif Kureishi
London, by Edward Rutherfurd
Réflexions sur la question juive, Jean Paul Sartre
L'anarchisme, Daniel Guérin
Ireland Awakening, by Edward Rutherfurd
Le quatuor algérien, Yasmina Khadra
The Map Of Love, by Ahdaf Soueif
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, by Garner
Series of middle age thrillers by C.J. Sansom
المتمردة - مليكة مقدم
رحلة جبلية رحلة صعبة - فدوى طوقان
السلطة والسياسية والثقافة - ادوارد سعيد
عشب اليل - ابراهيم الكوني
القرصان - عبد العزيز آل محمود
مراد مراد - سعاد العامري
الخيمة - محمد شكري
البلدة الاخرى - ابراهيم عبد المجيد
حيرة العائد - محمود درويش
The last Lingua Franca, by Nicholas Ostler
Les cavaliers, Joseph Kessel
Arabia Without Sultans, by Fred Halliday
Eats, Shoots and Leaves, by Lynn Truss
L'islam en questions, Alain Gresh et Tariq Ramadan
La peur des barbares, Tzvetan Todorov
La danse de la vie, by Edward T. Hall
Voyage en orient, texte intégral, Lamartine
الشمس في يوم غالم
امريكانلي - صنع الله ابراهيم
المؤلفات الكاملة - نجيب محفوظ
Between The Assassinations, by Aravind Adiga
Pastun Tales, by Aisha Ahmad & Roger Boase
Jihad Beyon Islam, by Marranci
Mother Of The Believers, by Kamran Pasha
Devil's Game, by Robert Dreyfuss
The Kingdom and Inside The Kingdom, by Robert Lacey
In The Hands Of The Taliban, by Yvonne Ridley
Journal des Anthropologues,
Habibi, by Craig Thompson
2666, by Roberto Bolano
Mystical Dimensions Of Islam, by Schimmel
La dynamique de l'Occident, Norbert Elias
Le Harem Politique, Fatima Mernissi
حتى مطلع الفجر - بلال فضل
يوم الدين - رشا الامير
العيش في منطقة حدودية - ساير المسباح
Précis de sémiotique générale, Klinkernberg
Mistrusting Refugees, Daniel & Knudsen
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought In Islam, by Mohammad Iqbal
Muhaddithat, by Akram
Les damnés de la terre, Franz Fanon
L'arrivant du soir, Youssef Seddik
مقامات الحريري
سيد الخواتم - ج ر ر تولكيين
الخلافة الاسلامية حتى القرن الرابع الهجري - د. شحادة الناطور ود. احمد عودات ود. جميل بيضون
كتب اد. شوقي ضيف

     And that's just the emergency library. That is, not counting the whole Wheel Of Time series by R. Jordan, or a whole bunch of other books here and there throughout the room not part of the emergency library. ( i.e. On both sides of my bed there's dictionnaries, Arabic, Hebrew and Persian, a big Quran, The Book Of Certainty by Lings, Grandmother's Secrets by Al Rawi, Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis ... ).

     You think, according to the above list, that I'm slightly obsessed with the Middle East ? Well, that's nothing really, compared to my Real Library at home ... It's not even that representative of everything I read. But I kind of understand why people tend not to believe me when I say my middle eastern obsession is not that much linked to my conversion to islam ...