Reel Bad Arabs - by Jack Shaheen

The Honey - By Zeina B. Ghandour. A most breath-taking book... A MUST read.

God Cried - by Tony Clifton and Catherine Leroy

"Why I Am Not A Muslim" - Ibn Warraq, available from AMAZON.COM

The Essential Rumi - by Coleman Barks. Rumi is in my humble opinion the greatest poet that ever lived. He was from Afghanistan back in his day part of the Persian empire.

The books of Nikos Kzantzakis (Side Effect: will free you from the narrow concept of national, religious and ethnic identity)

The books of Odysseas Elytis

Joseph Campbell - The Hero With A Thousand Faces

Rajneesh - Come Follow Me

The books of Noam Chomsky - One of the greatest living intellectuals of our times. Jewish left-wing American writer/scholar.

Edward Said's Orientalism