Balcony on the Moon follows Ibtisam Barakat through her childhood and adolescence in Palestine from 1972-1981 and chronicles her desire to be a writer.
Uses modern poll results to survey the true views and beliefs of the world's 350 million Arabs. Considers what these results can tell us about the Arab world and the people who inhabit it, as well as what we can learn from the way they view themselves and the rest of the world.
Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.
Traces the development of anti-Semitism from its origins in Christianity to its modern place in mainstream Islam and chronicles the emergence of modern-day Jews and their enemies.