As part of American Bedu goals to further increase readers knowledge and understanding about Saudi Arabia, American Bedu is now part of the Amazon.com Associates Program. Through this program, American Bedu is pleased to provide recommendations of books which can also be purchased with a simple click through Amazon.com. The books which American Bedu has chosen to recommend are divided into categories as provided in the links below.
**Note: If you like to purchase any of the books from the Amazon bookstore. Please click on the book title link or image. Amazon will share a percentage of the proceeds to help support American Bedu blog.
Great new page! I look forward to discovering fascinating books. It’s nice to have a review section from someone who is objective-to-sympathetic, and certainly knowledgable, about her subject.
Thanks, Marahm.
I really appreciate the feedback.
Excellent page. And I always appreciate a good review when contemplating buying books!
Thanks, Aafke!
Dear American Bedu,
First of all thank you so much for your blog. It is extremely interesting and it helps discovering the Saudi culture. I was wondering if you are still part of the amazon.com associate program. Could you please provide me with the link as I am very interested in books related to Saudi Arabia and Islam?
Missturtle,
thank you and welcome! I am indeed a part of the amazon.com associate program. If you are interested in a book I have reviewed, you click on the book review link and you will be automatically transferred to where you can purchase the book if you wish.
Best Regards,
Carol
Dear Carol,
The links just showed up on my laptop (which has been acting pretty weird lately) so now I can go do some shopping online and make sure I click on the book title link or image!
Shoukran!
My pleasure, Miss Turtle! Afwan!
Assalamu’alaikum ya American Bedu…
I am so delighted to read from this blog mashaALLAH you’ve done a good job, may ALLAH Reward you with all khayr ameen.
One question: I am interested to buy some pregnancy books from Amazon but were surprised when read that Saudi is not included amongst the countries they ship to. Maybe i made a mistake or what? How can we buy from Amazon? Afwan, it seems a silly question, i am not familiar with online purchase mashaALLAH.
Any info would be appreciated. Jazakillahu khayr. Wassalamu’alaikum.
UmmFaatima
What most individuals do is set up an account through ARAMEX (I’ll post more info later) but if you visit their website you’ll see that you can establish an account which provides you a US address. This allows you to do online shopping as well as anyone in the US to send items to you via a US address. ARAMEX in turn forwards these items to your Saudi address.
Jarir bookstore also has some selection of books on pregnancy.
walaikum salam,
Carol
Assalamu’alaikum. Jazakillahu khayran. Will ask my husband to check out these inshaALLAH.
UmmFaatima
Thank you for trying to overcome the negative views of Islam and Saudi Arabia =)
i cant seem to find “Bridges: An Anthology” online however can you help me with that plz
Someone: Thank YOU! And I always welcome continued recommendations to review and possibly add to this page. For Bridges, please check the following link:
Bridges: An Anthology
Dear Carol,
I have read many well written books about KSA since coming to the USA. These books are usually not available in KSA. I would like to contribute some titles for your groups’ enjoyment, if that is ok with you.
Thank you
Waw, that would be great!
Bedu, if you want a poll: It´s ok for me
And the new banner is great!
@Mariam – by all means, please make your contributions and reviews!
am abdulai mohammed from Ghana west Africa.please i will like to receive a copy of a holy quran if possible.this is my address
p o box as 505
ashaiman Ghana
w/a 00233
thanks .
Dear Carol,
I feel honored that you chose to list The Burning Veil in the list of recommended books. Thank you so much.
Dear Jean,
I so enjoyed the Burning Veil and definitely recommend it to others!
Hi!
I would like to highly recommend two books that I just finished reading:
Jewel of Medina – A Novel by Sherry Jones. This book is about Ayesha Mohammed, of of many wives of Prophet Mohammed.
The book introduces readers to the turmoil that surrounded the birth of the Islamic faith through the eyes of a truly unforgettable heroine and feminist.
The Sword of Medina – A Novel By Sherry Jones.
This climatic sequel to the international best seller,
The Jewel of Medina, returns to seventh century Arabia to discover whether, after fighting a civil war
(Ayesha versus Ali), a people can truly ever heal.
Hi Harry,
Thank you very much for your recommendations!
The Saudi government has to stop making the Saudi citizens believe that there are successful business producing national products with the claim that they are growing an economy that is not dependent on oil, where in reality they have been subsidizing these businesses for decades with oil money, making these “well connected owners super rich while making other “no so connected “citizens super poor.
In reality the subsidized businesses are going to vanish as soon as the revenues from the oil fade away.
This is a big lie and a propaganda that has to stop, on the other side of the coin you find that most of this business employ a huge number of foreign laborers with no consideration for any labor law and practice the ultimate injustice toward these foreign laborers.
Any short sighted person may not see the eventualities of these practices, where with a deep look you can see that they are the source for the problem of unemployment and the unfair distribution of wealth.