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I saw her speak last month and I was very impressed, and so far I like her book. I'm also reading "Brasyl" by Ian McDonald, and I am enjoying it, too.
Two books I highly highly recommend that I finished recently are "People Like Us" by Joris Luyendijk and "Paradise Beneath Her Feet-How Women are Transforming the Middle East" by Isobel Coleman. The first book is by a Dutch journalist who covered 5 Middle Eastern countries for 5 years, and he does an astonishingly good job of explaining the region and the limits of journalism, in a book of less than 250 pages. I've lived in the Middle East for 8 years now, and this book taught me a few things. The second book is so good because it looks at the women in the Middle East who are trying to change things for women. There are a lot of them, which is nice to know because I don't see many stories on them in the media.
Oh and I also want to recommend "The Geopolitics of Emotion" by Dominique Moisi because it is also a very interesting read.
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