Winter Storm Reading
from From the Potomac to the Euphrates and Middle East Program

Winter Storm Reading

Snow- and Middle East–themed reading for this weekend's winter storm.
Tourists stroll on the snow-covered Galata bridge in Istanbul, Turkey (Osman Orsal/Reuters).
Tourists stroll on the snow-covered Galata bridge in Istanbul, Turkey (Osman Orsal/Reuters).

Orhan Pamuk’s 2002 novel, Snow, translated by Maureen Freely.

The literary compendium edited and translated by Ibtihal Mahmood and Alexander Haddad, Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories from Jordan.

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Palestinian Territories

And one for the kids: Deborah Da Costa’s Snow in Jerusalem, with illustrations by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu—a Madelyn and Mia Cook favorite.

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