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1 year ago

Timestamps: Afghanistan: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 1:02 Afghanistan: Poetry of Hafiz Shirazi (The Divan of Hafiz: Edition of Complete Poetry) 1:36 Bahrain: Ali Al Shargawi (The most celebrated poet of the country) 1:58 Bahrain: The Epic of Gilgamesh (The ancient land of Dilmun) 2:20 Bangladesh: Rabindranath Tagore (writer) 2:53 Bangladesh: Anandamath by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 3:24 Bangladesh: A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam 3:55 Bhutan: The Circle of Karma by Kunzang Choden 4:38 Brunei: The Fisherman King by Kathrina Mohd Daud 5:29 Cambodia: Tum Teav 6:19 China: Top 10 Chinese Books of All Time (Video) 7:06 China: Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en and Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 7:16 China: Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua 7:30 Dili (East Timor): No recommendations :( India: The Mahābhārata 8:16 India: The Rāmāyana 8:27 India: Premchand (writer) 8:38 India: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 8:55 Indonesia: Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan 9:37 Indonesia: Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan 10:12 Iran: Shahnameh by Ferdowsi 10:36 Iran: The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat 10:55 Iraq: The Epic of Gilgamesh 11:30 Iraq: Frankenstein in Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi 11:47 Israel: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 12:43 Israel: To the End of the Land by David Grossman 12:50 Israel: A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz 13:15 Israel: A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev 13:20 Japan: The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 13:33 Japan: 10 Best Japanese Novels (Video) 13:55 Jordan: Columns of Foam by Elias Farkouh (not available in English) 14:22 Kuwait: Al-Sabiliat by Ismail Fahd Ismail (not available in English) 14:58 Kyrgyzstan: Epic of Manas 16:11 Kyrgyzstan: The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chinghiz Aitmatov 16:45 Laos: Thao Hung Thao Cheuang 17:17 Laos: Sang Sinxay (or Sinxay) 17:43 Laos: The Sacred Buddha Image by Somchine Nginn 17:51 Lebanon: Samarkand by Amin Maalouf 18:13 Lebanon: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 18:38 Malaysia: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng 19:16 Maldives: Dhon Hiyala aai Alifulhu by Abdoulla Sadiq 20:17 Mongolia: The Secret History of the Mongols 20:50 Mongolia: The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag 21:27 Myanmar (Burma): Burmese Days by George Orwell 22:18 Myanmar (Burma): 13 Carat Diamond and Other Stories by Khin Myo Chit 22:30 Myanmar (Burma): The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone 22:44 Nepal: Muna Madan by Laxmi Prasad Devkota 23:08 North Korea: Jackals by Han Sorya 24:18 Oman: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi 24:53 Pakistan: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 25:27 Pakistan: Allama Iqbal (Writer) 25:51 Palestine: Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani 26:20 Philippines: Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal 26:59 Qatar: Al Qursan (The Corsair) by Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud 27:52 Saudi Arabia: 28:26 Quran Saudi Arabia: Cities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munif 28:50 Singapore: State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang 29:33 South Korea: The Cloud Dream of the Nine by Kim Man-jung 30:32 Sri Lanka: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 31:45 Sri Lanka: Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera 32:04 Syria: Damascus: The Smile of Sadness by Ulfat Idilbi (not available in English) 32:30 Taiwan: The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-yi 33:16 Tajikistan: Rudaki (Poet) 33:46 Tajikistan: Dekhunda by Sadriddin Ayni (not available in English) 33:52 Thailand: Khun Chang Khun Phaen 34:22 Thailand: The Judgment by Chart Korbjitti 34:39 Turkmenistan: Berdi Kerbabayev (Writer) 35:17 Turkmenistan: Soul/Dzhan by Andrei Platonov 35:43 UAE: The Sand Fish by Maha Gargash 36:28 Uzbekistan: Days Gone By by Abdulla Qodiriy 37:09 Uzbekistan: The Railway by Hamid Ismailov 37:29 Uzbekistan: Ali-Shir Nava'i (Poet) 37:51 Vietnam: The Tale of Kieu by Nguyễn Du 38:11 Yemen: They Die Strangers by Mohammad Abdul-Wali 38:58 Yemen: The Hostage by Zayd Mutee' Dammaj 39:12

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