“There was good reason why the cultures, cities and peoples who lived along the Silk Roads developed and advanced: as they traded and exchanged ideas, they learnt and borrowed from each other, stimulating further advances in philosophy, the sciences, language… As tastes became more sophisticated, so did appetites for information. Alongside increasingly sophisticated tastes came
increasingly refined ideas.” (Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads) History teaches us that this is how cities and cultures thrived. It’s beautiful to think that this is how our minds could flourish, hence this reading project that officially began in 2020 and which embraces the literary tapestry of the Silk Route and the Fertile Crescent from the ancient to the present.
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Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt) | Elias Khoury (Lebanon) | Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)



Iran | Palestine | Afghanistan | Uzbekistan






Lebanon | Turkey | Kurdistan









The Balkans | Hungary









Western Authors









History | Journalistic Reports | Non-Fiction










Afghanistan | Egypt | Iran | Iraq | India | Lebanon | Morocco | Syria | Palestine | Turkey | Uzbekistan | Yemen
























Literary Fiction
Georgia | Iran | Lebanon | Sudan | Egypt | Iraq | Turkey | Oman | Syria | Afghanistan | Pakistan | India | Sri Lanka
















































Travelogues










Classical Literature




